Television, Childhood, and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain (Oxford Television Studies)
THE CULTURE OF ME (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
How's this for a supergroup? Former Television guitarist Richard Lloyd and his new band, The Richard Lloyd Group, brings the guitarist into the fold with bassist Danny Tamberelli (the guy who played Little Pete on Nickelodeon's "The Adventures of Pete...
Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
http://www.mediafire.com/?ybncmyt3jrg Tracklist: 1. So Messed Up (Peel Session) – The Damned, 2. Pushing Too Hard – The Seeds, 3. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – Iggy & The Stooges, 4. Horseplay (Wearier of the Schmaltz) – Eddie & The Hot Rods, 5. Neat Neat Neat (Peel Session) – The Damned, 6. Blank Geberation (EP Version) – Richard Hell & The Voidoids,...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Saladin captured Jerusalem in 1187. John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working greyscale television in 1925. Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei in 1928. Thurgood Marshall became the first black man to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States in 1967. And in 2006, five Amish girls were killed in their school house in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. They were;...
Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Without a doubt i think the last big cultural explosion in the U.S. took place in New York City during the mid-20th Century. The music scene was not only intense, but also has a lasting greatness with bands like The Ramones, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers (no not Tom), Blondie, and others. There was also things happening in the film and art world as well. "Band a part"...
More Cowbell (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Tonight around 10:30PM. Richard Lloyd of the influential band Television will be playing a show tonight @ Nick & Eddie in Loring Park. $10 Legendary ex Television guitarist Richard Lloyd plays Nick and Eddie-Sept 25th N and E is back-full bar-with a truly remarkable show to celebrate. The greatest guitarist of his generation Richard Lloyd plays with his [...]
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
I wasn’t sure Jimi Hendrix’s iconic songs could withstand any more bent-note guitar storms, feedback or art damage; as you probably know, the dude became, oh, a bit of a name for not exactly playing solos that sounded like everyone else. But then I hadn’t before heard them through the prism of Richard Lloyd, who has quite the back story with Hendrix & this year released an intriguing...
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
For reasons that are unclear to me -- and my poor neighbors -- I've been on a major Television kick lately. Ever since I first read about them in Blondie's autobiography, "Making Tracks," I'd been fascinated with this pioneering New Wave band that had come and gone before I even knew what New Wave was. But when I finally got my hands on the two albums they'd recorded before disintegrating...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
The ex-Television guitar hero pays homage to two men who greatly influenced him in his formative years.
The big take over (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
It’s kind of unusual for an album of covers to simultaneously be an artist’s most personal work.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
Whitney Houston re-emerges with full diva qualifications on “I Look to You.” Plus, new releases from Datarock and Richard Hell & the Voidoids.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Photograph by Stephanie Chernikowsk. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York In 1975 New York was bankrupt. President Gerald Ford famously told the city to “drop dead” when asked for federal financial assistance. But as the rest of the country predicted the Big Apple’s demise, a fervent musical revolution was taking place in the [...]
75 or Less album reviews (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
Richard Lloyd - The Jamie Neverts Story ( Parasol ) [ audio ] [ upcoming shows ] Television and Jimi Hendrix are not normally connected, considering Hendrix died a few years before Television existed, but, as the liner notes detail, Hendrix and Lloyd had a brief but complex relationship. While Lloyd has nowhere near the acclaim Hendrix has as a guitarist (no one does), this album should expose Lloyd...
I Rock Cleveland (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
The record release show is a time honored tradition. After all the hard work writing and recording an album, and all that time waiting for the final mix, the album art, and test pressings, it's an opportunity for a little relaxation with friends, family, and label mates as you kick out some jams from your latest release. It's a pat on the back, "Hey man, how's it going?" and a handshake from...
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 27/07/2009
— WHAT IS THE NEW POETRY? CALE YOUNG RICE. December 7, 1919, Sunday — *** — Joe Milford Show: Joe Milford Hosts Gabriel Gudding — *** — “David Orr, in his review of Thom Gunn’s new Selected Poems (July 12), makes an interesting, good observation by calling Gunn ‘a poet of friction.’” — *** — On Poetry: Contemporary American work...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
This development was inevitable, of course: " ... Global Digital Broadcast ... had 'discounted it as coming from a North Korean Government site ,' suggesting the source of the attack was based in America. ... " Brighton company involved in cyber attack on US and South Korea, investigators claim Richard Lloyd Parry technology.timesonline.co.uk July 15, 2009 The master computer which controlled...
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