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Velvet Underground

June 2024

  • Black and white portrait of John Cale.

    ‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention

  • John Cale.

    John Cale: Poptical Illusion review – counterculture icon finds his fun side

May 2024

  • La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, Installation view, 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, 2015 Photo: Jung Hee Choi. Copyright © Jung Hee Choi 2015.

    Marian Zazeela obituary

    Artist who collaborated with her husband La Monte Young on a series of installations aimed at flooding and altering the senses

March 2024

  • In no mood to compromise … Nico in 1967.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Nico: The Marble Index/Desertshore review – an unforgettable trip to a very dark place

    These two reissued solo albums from the German singer have a fearsome reputation – but they offer an experience like no other

January 2023

  • John Cale, white-haired, his arm raised, reaching out to the camera.

    Artist of the week
    John Cale: Mercy review – the titan of cool misses a trick

    The 80-year-old’s latest album features some inspired younger guests but cries out for less dated beats and a visionary producer

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

September 2022

  • Lou Reed, second right, and John Cale, right, with their Primitives bandmates, c1964.

    Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 review – revelatory early cuts

    The 23-year-old Reed and John Cale try things out for size in this treasure trove of previously unreleased demos

June 2022

  • Lou Reed performing with the Velvet Underground in 1966.

    Lou Reed’s earliest Velvet Underground demos unearthed for reissue

    Recordings from May 1965 were sealed for nearly 50 years, and reveal folk-like renditions of songs including I’m Waiting for the Man and Heroin

April 2022

  • Songs For Drella Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    ‘They didn’t go round the corner for beer’: Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs for Drella

  • Memory and recovery … John Cale and Lou Reed in Songs for Drella.

    Songs for Drella review – Lou Reed and John Cale’s moving journey into Warhol

October 2021

  • From left, Moe Tucker, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Lou Reed in an image from Todd Haynes’s documentary The Velvet Underground.

    The Velvet Underground review – avant-garde cool brought back to life

    Todd Haynes uses Warhol-style split screen for this ideally pitched documentary about the influential 60s band
  • Robert Carlyle as Robert Sutherland in Cobra: Cyberwar

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: can Robert Carlyle save Britain in political thriller Cobra?

    The actor plays a prime minister facing a slew of security threats in Sky’s drama. Plus a night of standing up to cancer. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • "Dark Waters" Press Conference<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 08: Director Todd Haynes at the "Dark Waters" Press Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel on November 08, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage)

    Todd Haynes: ‘This world is too cosy. Except cosy is almost too cosy a word’

    Making a documentary about the Velvet Underground transported the film-maker to a ‘distant planet’ and more radical time. He talks about his envy of musicians, the spirit of Factory-era New York and ‘our lost spirit of revolt’

July 2021

  • Nico with the Velvet Underground.

    You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike review – the biography of Nico

    A not always flattering portrait of the enigmatic Velvet Underground singer’s troubled life and legacy
  • Velvet Underground with Nico.

    Ranked
    The Velvet Underground’s greatest songs – ranked!

    As Todd Haynes unveils his documentary about them, we rate the best work of a band who overturned and reinvented rock’n’roll
  • The Velvet Underground, with Nico.

    The Velvet Underground review – Todd Haynes doc gets under the art-rockers’ skin

    With insights by the band’s former members and friends, this film takes its job seriously – even if it shies away from discordant notes

June 2021

  • Nico<br>German pop singer Nico (1938 - 1988) in concert, 1983. (Photo by Leon Morris/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone review – Nico as the gothic Garbo

    Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s biography is absorbing and informative but paints a flattering portrait of the enigmatic model turned singer

February 2021

  • Harry Sword, author of Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion

    No drone unturned: tracing the sound that unites ancient and modern

    From primitive instruments and sacred chants to today’s minimalist electronica and metal, drone music has a long and mystical history. A new book investigates

March 2020

  • Nico in 1967.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Winterpause by Naomi Foyle

    This homage to the melancholy singer Nico makes striking connections with German history

November 2019

  • Lou Reed in Amsterdam, 1976.

    I’ll Be Your Mirror by Lou Reed review – bard of New York’s dirty boulevards

    The late musician’s collected lyrics reveal a singular songwriter capable of tenderness, nihilism and everything in between
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