HBO’s ‘Vinyl’: Destined for the Dustbin of History
“I saw the future,” screams Richie Finestra, lead character of Vinyl, after snorting a mountainous bump of coke and withstanding a full-frontal assault from the music that would become punk. It’s that cultural pivot point – when the bullet of punk blew away the rotting carcass of rock – that the turbo-hyped new HBO series Vinyl promises to capture. The always musically attuned director Martin Scorsese helmed the two-hour opening episode (which debuts Sunday, Feb. 14 at 9 p.m.).