Most of the crowd can't see Wong—sitting alone on the stage with a guitar and a half-dozen pedals—at all. He leans over as he plays, layering single-note guitar lines into sparkling arcs, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd mirrored to infinity and beyond. ...

Synth doodles and squeaky-cutesy vocals abound on this Brooklyn trio's aggressively adorable debut. But Hospitality have more to offer than mere sweetness: Check how the wistful ballad "Eighth Avenue" left-turns into a spastic guitar outburst, like Tom...

Happy Birthday Tom Verlaine: The frontman of Television, whose 1977 release Marque Moon set the blueprint for most of the good rock music to come afterwards, turns 62 today. Here's "Prove It" for your Tuesday enjoyment.

Nugent is 63. Tom Verlaine of Television is 62. John Munson of The New Standards, Semisonic and of Twilight Hours is 49. 1974, - Former Beatle George Harrison visited the White House at the invitation of Jack Ford, the president's son. Harrison was the...

...to Kael’s Paulette-Jets in a critics dance of death), David Lynch, Suzanne Farrell, Alene Croce, George Balanchine, Gelsey (“A name that falls in the mind’s ear like a sprig of mint”) Kirkland, Ugly George (a paleolithic Joe Francis armed with a shoulder-mounted...

TRIBUTE 1. Jeff Buckley – Sketches For (My Sweetheart The Drunk) Just like his super-talented father Tim, Jeff Buckley trundled off to the great big gig in the sky much too early. But he’d left enough song “sketches” (sorry) for a double album, guided...