Tom Verlaine, the inimitable guitarist, punk iconoclast, and Television frontman who died on Saturday (Jan. 28) at 73, knew how to make a first impression. Television’s first album, 1977’s Marquee ...

Tom Verlaine — the guitar virtuoso, cofounder and “frontman” of the pioneering New York group Television, who died last year — might be the most low-key guitar hero in rock history. If he had only ...

Tom Verlaine was known mainly for his work as frontman and guitarist for the rock band Television, but his elite guitar skills appear on many other acclaimed tracks. Throughout his nearly 40-year ...

I wanted to start this tribute to the great Tom Verlaine by talking about how he and his group Television and their 1977 masterpiece Marquee Moon singlehandedly invented the word “angular.” True story ...

Tom Verlaine, the singer and guitarist who founded the legendary New York punk band Television, has died at 73. Television was a staple in the 1970s New York punk era, and their album Marquee Moon was ...

Tom Verlaine, the singer and guitarist who fronted the singular, ambitious and oblique New York band Television, with whom he made two of rock’s most acclaimed albums, died Saturday in Manhattan. He ...

Even before the news that Tom Verlaine, singer and guitarist with iconic NYC band Television, had died had been confirmed, tributes had started to pour onto social media from fellow artists. No ...

When Television broke up for the first time in 1978, Verlaine immediately launched a solo career. His self-titled debut, released in 1979, picks up where Adventure left off. Half the tracks began life ...