The Velvet Underground are responsible for some of the most experimental and thought-proviking songs of all time, but who ...

The listener experiences a sort of indie-rock Stations of the Cross through the band’s brutally uncompromising performance ...

Talking Heads always struggled to fit into a box because they refused to fall under one label, it meant their first gigs were ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

Between quitting the Velvet Underground and writing “Walk on the Wild Side,” the singer endured a long stretch of doubt, frustration and failure. By Will Hermes Will Hermes is a culture ...

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 ...