1960s self-titled rock album The Velvet Underground & Nico is groundbreaking and extremely influential to alternative rock music ...

The outspoken Frank Zappa might have criticised many musicians, but there were also those who took issue with him and his work, from Joni Mitchell to Dean Ween.

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The Velvet Underground released its debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, 59 years ago today on March 12th, 1967. The history of the band is bizarre, with pop artist Andy Warhol originally ...

Many membered South London group drag the capital's post-punk scene into strange and scrappy new realms, restlessly documenting England’s deep reserves of residual weirdness In the beginning, there ...

Howie Klein, a veteran record executive, radio DJ and political activist who was a leader in the famously artist-friendly Warner Music family during its golden era of the 1980s and early ‘90s, died ...

The East Coast vs West Coast feud in American popular music existed long before Tupac and Biggie entered the fray. Back in 1966, the contrasting sensibilities of New York and LA were already on full ...

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There would be no Velvet Underground without John Cale, who heard an aspiring folkie named Lou Reed strum a song called “Heroin” in 1965 and immediately grasped its avant-garde potential. Together, ...

An oft-repeated line about the Velvet Underground says volumes about their influence and importance. To paraphrase renowned music producer Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground only sold a few thousand ...

Lou Reed sang, “I’m a New York City man, baby,” and that he was. Reed was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and spent most of the rest of his life in New York City. Locations all over New York ...