by Bryan | Apr 12, 2011 | Music, Neighborhood Scenes
A post from last year that rounds up our Patti-related content on this site (and a little bit elsewhere as well). Since then, we took note that her 2010 memoir, Just Kids, won the National Book Award. Most of what I have to say about Television I’ve saved for...
by Bryan | Dec 22, 2010 | Film, Music, Neighborhood Scenes
Wow. In case you missed this story at the Local East Village yesterday: our friends at Fales Library are acquiring a treasure trove of documentary concert footage and interviews from the heyday of New York punk. I’m wishing I’d had access to these over the...
by Bryan | Dec 14, 2010 | Neighborhood Scenes, Out and About, Pop Culture
While I’ve been working on my book about Television’s Marquee Moon I’ve had ample opportunity to poke around the history of Club 82, a historic downtown drag venue (founded in the late ’50s by the mob, who controlled much pre-Stonewall gay...
by Bryan | Dec 7, 2010 | Music, Neighborhood Scenes
Sometime in 1974 Richard Hell wrote a review of his own band, Television, playing a set at a newish club called CBGB’s, from the perspective of a fictional audience member. “The place had a grapevine reputation on account of a band called Television that...
by Bryan | Nov 22, 2010 | Music, Neighborhood Scenes
The Marquee Moon project I’ve been working on in earnest for the last several months has given me occasion to read an enormous amount of music journalism from the scene at large and also the excuse to spend countless hours on YouTube looking for stray footage...
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