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1 day ago · The Velvet Underground Live In 1969 At 50 Half a century after the release of one of the all-time great live albums, John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale. This feature was first published on 2 April 2020
3 days ago · The Velvet Underground & Nicowas recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitabletour. Warhol, who designed the album's record sleeve, co-produced with Tom Wilson. The album features elements of avant-garde musicincorporated into brash, minimaland groove-driven rock music.
4 days ago · 2. 56 Ludlow Street. Photo by Mark Satlof. The foundation of The Velvet Underground was built at John Cale’s apartment at 56 Ludlow Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The sparse apartment ...
5 days ago · “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies,” ambient pioneer Brian Eno once stated, “But everyone who bought it formed a band.” One of the band’s many disciples was Henry Rollins, a singer who would come to front hardcore outfit Black Flag a decade or so after the inception of the Velvet Underground.
2 days ago · Such was the impact on many (myself included) of the inimitable Lou Reed, rock n’ roll wild child, Warhol collaborator and lead figure of the proto-punk band, The Velvet Underground. The avant-garde band transformed the world of music in a way not at all dissimilar from Dylan or the Beatles, though without the immensely popular followings.
3 days ago · The Velvet Underground’s 1968 album White Light, White Heat was a wooden stake plunged into the heart of rock and roll. 0 The Velvet Underground’s 1968 album ...
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3 days ago · The Velvet Underground (Femme Fatale, I’ll Be Your Mirror, All Tomorrow’s Parties) When Warhol foisted Nico on The Velvet Underground as their chanteuse-in-residence, the band initially bristled.
