Not only for the Velvet Underground and the Rolling Stones, but also for Aretha Franklin and Loredana Bertè: what's behind ...

John Cale's name is inevitably associated with the legendary New York band that produced ‘Femme Fatale’. Yet it was in Wales ...

The Velvet Underground’s first album was a commercial flop—and a huge influence on other artists. No one thought The Velvet Underground and Nico—with its songs about S&M and narcotics and ...

What’s the best Velvet Underground? There’s no bad answer to that question; any of the band’s five studio LPs, other than the post-Lou Reed record Squeeze could qualify, and even that one has some ...

Colchester Arts Centre is hosting a 'Vinyl Sessions' event on Sunday, March 9, celebrating one of the most iconic albums of all ...

Charli echoed her love of Lou Reed again last December, when she named the 1967 album ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ as “the apex of fine art” during speech at Variety’s Hitmakers Awards.

Before conquering the world as guitarist for 1970s stadium monster Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was dumbstruck by one band's ...

In an age when the history of music streams for pennies and its soundtrack now filters through any willing artist, the 43rd ...

Frontmen might have all the glory, but the biggest musicians in the back could also possess an incredible set of pipes as well. Read more here.

I'm lucky enough to have seen Guy Clark perform, I don't know, maybe a dozen times, probably more than, that over the years. The first was sometime in the mid-'80s, and by then, he was already Guy ...

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Tamara Saviano, who produced a new album by folk and country singer Guy Clark based on long-lost recordings.

Nico sang it as if she knew nothing about the latter and everything about the former. The second Velvet Underground album was by far their most extreme, and its title track, “White Light/White H ...