The Velvet Underground

The originators of alt music get the artistic biography they deserve

"...reviews filtering from Cannes this past summer over The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes’ cinematic valentine to underground rock’s most..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Todd Haynes Melds Sound and Vision in The Velvet Underground

New music documentary reframes the New York quartet as experimenters and innovators

"...It's not that the Velvet Underground were an influential band, though they were...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...no longer in the band he had co-founded, the Velvet Underground...."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Velvet Goldmine

"...the setting for Todd Haynes' wildly original new film, Velvet Goldmine...."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...light on the workings of Cale's beloved legacy, the Velvet Underground. Taken from the last chapters of the beautifully..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

Margaret Moser Tribute: Alejandro Escovedo

“Her love for the Velvet Underground and John Cale was the same as I had”

"...with the Texas thing and a love for the Velvet Underground and John Cale in particular. That was why..."

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King

"...David Fair from their earliest warblings to their current underground status as the best band in the world. Culling..."

May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nico Icon

"...sonorous vocal contributions to the music of the early Velvet Underground, but Nico Icon also investigates her pre-Velvets modeling..."

May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Levitation Profile: John Cale

Founding member of Velvet Underground finds kindred spirits at psych festival

"...Revered as a founding member of the Velvet Underground, John Cale's solo career – from classical to..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Margaret Moser Tribute: John Cale

Velvet Underground co-founder on first meet: “Up walks a petite blonde with all the swagger of someone 10 feet tall”

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Mo' Music: October 29

A shout out to Lou and scary songs to hear in the dark

"...Reed. In high school I stole the first two Velvet Underground albums from Best Buy. I played them to..."

Oct. 29, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...a frame behind the couch. Beefheart, Bowie, and the Velvet Underground sun themselves on the windowsill next to the..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...Streets of Fire is the Velvet Underground & Nico of Eighties movies. Almost nobody saw..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lou Reed’s Rock & Roll Heart

Saved by that which he revolutionized

"...with the huge yellow banana on the cover called Velvet Underground & Nico called to me. The photo on..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Tuesday SXSW Interview

Argentine rockers Capsula cover Bowie's Ziggy Stardust to open SXSW Music 2016

"...somehow with Tony Visconti. There was a Spanish and Velvet Underground connection. Ignacio Julia, who is a writer from..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Call Jane

Timely but lightweight abortion drama isn't up to the topic's pressing needs

"...loosely based on the Jane Collective, aka Jane, an underground abortion services provider in Chicago that helped women obtain..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

San Antone on a Hot and Dusty Night

I Love (Live) Rock & Roll

"...Brown bellowed he was the God of Hellfire, the Velvet Underground gave a nod to heroin, or the 13th..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...Guitarist Sterling Morrison of New York's Velvet Underground spent most of the Seventies in UT's medieval..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Outta the Bag

John Cale loosens a new 'Black Acetate' on the unsuspecting underground

"...moved to New York in the mid-Sixties, when the underground was cracking open. For musical revisionists, Cale was the..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Austin Film Society’s Doc Days Returns

Third edition opens with Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground

"...Experimental NYC music legends the Velvet Underground made their mark starting in the Sixties, and..."

Sept. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins

Lou Reed Box Set Tells Tale of Early Solo Career

The RCA & Arista Album Collection's 17 discs document the Seventies and Eighties

"...Moses Melody record store in Houston listening to The Velvet Underground & Nico in 1967, I felt a powerful..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Velvet Underground

Out of the basement and under the tree!

"...The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground: 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Polydor/Universal..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground

Old hat for Velvet vets, but knowledge for newcomers

"...Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Undergroundby Rob Jovanovic St. Martin's Press, 294 pp., $26.99..."

June 15, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Let It Rock

Rock & Roll Books Spring 2000

"...roll you want courtesy of his tenure in the Velvet Underground during Andy Warhol's Factory days and his acute..."

March 17, 2000 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...right air of privilege. From the rich brocades and velvets chosen for upper-class bedrooms to the fine points of..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

On Ondine on Film

The pope and the artist, the hotel and the factory

"...Warhol in a totemic way. Attracted more by the Velvet Underground than art, Warhol and company represented the Cultural..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

On Ondine on Film: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...Warhol in a totemic way. Attracted more by the Velvet Underground than art, Warhol and company represented the Cultural..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Pink Pick

Kate Messer remembers when she first met Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison and they bonded over the Gibson SG like a couple of guitar geeks.

"...against the wail and fury of the original mid-Sixties Velvet Underground and Exploding Plastic Inevitable. I could just see..."

March 17, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Record Reviews

"...a cover of "There He Goes," the EP's melancholy Velvet Underground highpoint and a version to make Patsy Cline..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Review

'You Were Right, Andy'

Getting beneath the surface of Andy Warhol with Tom Sokolowski

"...to the song "I'll Be Your Mirror" by the Velvet Underground]. If you see the death penalty, car crashes,..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Jacqueline May

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