For years, I’ve been longing for someone to make a documentary about the Velvet Underground. They are, along with the Beatles and the Stones, one of the three seminal groups in the history of ...

Their creative partnership, encouraged by Andy Warhol and enhanced by the mercurial presence of the German model, actress and singer Nico, was the volatile bedrock of the Velvet Underground ...

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: (Singing) Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather, whiplash, girl child in the dark - comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him. Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart.

October 14, 2021 • In his first documentary, filmmaker Todd Haynes uses the language of experimental cinema to spotlight the Velvet Underground, a legendary band that flowered within New York's ...

The Velvet Underground sounded like nothing else that came out in 1967. It's easy to hear why: Unlike so many other classic albums that came out that year, the Velvet Underground's debut felt like ...

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 ...

A half-century on, The Velvet Underground and Nico remains the quintessential emblem of a certain brand of countercultural cool. Not the Haight-Ashbury or Sgt. Pepper kind but an eerier ...

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 ...

Music lovers can (and do) argue about such things at length, but few would deny the first Velvet Underground album its right to be up there. It was number one when another British newspaper ...

The Velvet Underground’s six-disc deluxe edition, including long-sought-after live material from 1969, offers a complete portrait of a period when the Velvets’ populist ambitions were being ...

The Velvet Underground are one of the 20th century’s most influential bands, even though nobody paid attention to them back when they were making records in the ‘60s. The original lineup led ...

The Velvet Underground‘s self-titled third album will be reissued as a six-disc “super deluxe” set to celebrate its 45th anniversary this fall. The record, which was the group’s first ...