SUMMERS: That's them on March 14 in Sao Paulo. Of course, COVID lockdowns were sweeping across the world, so Cale and the band cut the tour short and caught one of the last flights back to the States.

Designed by Malone, New York-born artist, and musician Bjorn Copeland, the cover of John Cale‘s 18th album POPtical Illusion is a motley collage snapshotting a clear blue sea, camera lens, ...

John Cale has announced new album, POPtical Illusion, which will be out June 14 via DoubleSix/Domino. Unlike 2023’s collab-heavy MERCY, this album was made almost entirely by Cale with co-producer ...

At the very beginning of 2023, John Cale released a new album, MERCY, where the Velvet Underground legend collaborated with the likes of Animal Collective, Weyes Blood, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, and ...

He has written music and lyrics and plays most of the instruments, as well as co-producing the album with long-term collaborator Nida Scott. The guitarist Dustin Boyer contributes weird and wonderful ...

John Cale is on a formidable hot streak in his 80s. When the Welsh avant-garde legend released Mercy last year, it was his first album in a decade. But he’s already produced another gem with POPtical ...

Los Angeles, March 1972. A happy John Cale in the run-up to the release of ‘The Academy in Peril’© Ed Thrasher 1978 Slow Dazzle was reviewed by NME in May 1975. The album, it was declared, “proves ...

Listening today, with decades of distance and a lifetime of music at our fingertips, it’s difficult to imagine the seismic influence of the Velvet Underground and Nico’s self-titled album in 1967.

Two solo albums from John Cale‘s early solo career will be reissued this fall. The Academy in Peril, the 1972 modern classical album featuring cover art designed by Andy Warhol, will be reissued ...

This interview originally aired on December 6, 2016. John Cale knows music. He's got over 50 years of experience under his belt. The Welsh musician grew up a promising viola player, a talent that ...

John Cale’s new album, released on gatefold heavyweight vinyl, CD and digital on October 1st 2012. Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood is a title to set tongues wagging and minds wondering, but for an ...

John Cale didn’t come to popular music from the usual places. His muse was born in the classical avant-garde, and when the young Welsh musician first arrived in New York in the early 1960s, he was ...