In John Cale: The Velvet Underground The band’s influential debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico was recorded in 1966 and released in 1967. Cale’s influence is apparent on tracks such as “Venus in Furs” and “Heroin,” which feature his droning viola, and “All Tomorrow’s Parti...
The Velvet Underground, American band of the 1960s whose primal guitar sound and urban noir lyrics, influenced by avant-garde art and modern literature, inspired the punk and alternative rock movements of the 1970s and ’80s. Principal members included L
Of all cult bands in history, no two have had a greater immediate and lasting impact on the direction of rock music. Countless artists cite them as the key influences, and multiple subgenres can be directly traced to either the Grateful Dead or the Velvet Underground. Yet unlike fellow ’60...
WhenThe Velvet Underground & Nicocame out in March 1967, the reception was dull, with a legal issue causing the record to be pulled off the shelves and solidifying that it was not meant to be a commercial success at the time. Despite the album’s initial stalling, The Velvet Underground k...
Full Albumsfeatures covers of every track off a classic album. Got an idea for a future pick? Leave a note in the comments! In the annals of rock history,The Velvet Underground & Nicois filed under “Important Albums.” Sure, it sold all of five copies at the time of its release, bu...
“Foggy Notion” was one of the songs recorded by the Velvet Underground in 1969 for their possible “lost” album. But considering the Velvets’ status as one of the greatest bands of the ‘60s, and one that (unlike the previous four artists on this list) didn’t release...
Its status as one of pop's most influential albums is clear, but the circumstances surrounding the creation of The Velvet Underground & Nico have always been clouded. We asked Andy Warhol's co-producer to set the record straight.
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Moving from Paris to New York, the German-born artist left the modelling and acting world and leapt into a musical one, famously falling into Andy Warhol’s circle and onto the The Velvet Underground’s seminal debut album. Between 1967 and 1974 she then released four solo albums. Her debut...
United Artists, 1972 Powered by Chugging out of Cologne, Germany, in the late Sixties, avant-psychedelic crew Can took influence from the Velvet Underground’s subterranean drones, Miles Davis’ molten jazz rock, and James Brown’s circular funk grooves. OnEge Bamyasi,new singer Damo Suzuki mumb...