In honor of Betsey Johnson’s 81st birthday, which was on Aug. 10, I present the unknown story of her wedding to the Velvet Underground’s John Cale in 1968 at NYC’s City Hall, which is ...

To rock snobs, art-school students, and dads everywhere, the Velvet Underground are the cornerstone of rock and roll. They inspired bands like R.E.M. and Sonic Youth with their innovative style ...

Like a lot of people seeing The Velvet Underground for the first time, the kids at Summit High School basically had no idea what hit them. "Yeah, they didn't like us too much," remembers Maureen ...

When the Velvet Underground entered New York’s Mayfair Sound Studios to begin work on the album in September 1967, the vaunted “Summer of Love” was still grooving in San Francisco – and ...

This is part two of a six-part series. In part one, we showed you Sterling Morrison's first steps in his second act in Texas. Part three will be published on Feb. 4. Sterling Morrison’s departure from ...

The journey of The Velvet Underground began in 1963 when future members – Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Angus Maclise (and later Maureen “Moe” Tucker) – started moving to New ...

The Velvet Underground soon found a more appreciative audience when artist Andy Warhol spotted them and set them up at the Factory, his Manhattan studio-and-happening space.

“Gypsy” is one of Fleetwood Mac’s most famous songs, but not everyone knows the meaning behind the “velvet underground” in the Stevie Nicks-penned track. Here’s how Nicks explained the ...

Lou Reed is the face of the Velvet Underground. The band would not have had the impact that it did without the contributions of John Cale, Nico, Mo Tucker and Sterling Morrison, but it was Reed ...

He was trying to make the band more accessible.” Reed’s desires to make the Velvet Underground a more palatable band after leaving Warhol’s Plastic Exploding Inevitable make sense.

Even if you haven’t listened to the self-titled album The Velvet Underground & Nico, odds are you know the album art. Against a white background, sits the famed banana, and written in cursive to ...