Before they became synonymous with downtown cool, the Velvet Underground played a multi-band bill at a suburban New Jersey high school in 1965. Parents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the ...

I really wanted to go with the heartbreakingly frail “Pale Blue Eyes,” (which, for what it’s worth, Smith does a great cover of) but “Heroin” captures the full spectrum of Lou Reed’s art. Reed gives ...

The post A Definitive Ranking of Every The Velvet Underground Album appeared first on Consequence. Today, just about any given indie rock group or punk band can trace their roots back to The Velvet ...

LOADED: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground. By Dylan Jones. Grand Central Publishing. 400 pages. $30. Before they became synonymous with downtown cool, the Velvet Underground played a ...