That time Jimi Hendrix punched television’s Richard Lloyd.

Even though their 1977 debut album Marquee Moon has been endlessly touted as one of the greatest rock albums of all time, most people don’t know about the New York punk band Television. But hopefully we can change that a little bit.

The foursome came of age in the seventies CBGB era alongside Patti Smith, the Ramones, Dead Boys, Blondie, Iggy Pop, and all those other rock junkies who happened to pull it together long enough to make iconic albums.

Inspired by writers like Jim Carroll and William Burroughs, and the garbage dump that was NYC in the late seventies, the CBGB scene was a potent cocktail of artists, musicians, punks, and emaciated misfits who shared a common love of not giving a shit. Television climbed the social... Read More