“Ah, when the heroin is in my blood, and that blood is in my head, then thank God that I’m as good as dead.” —”Heroin,” the Velvet Underground America’s long-running drug war has its roots in a real ...

Lou Reed can’t help but laugh after announcing the title of a new song, “Heroin,” on a demo recording from May 1965. He then gives a surprisingly folky, almost Dylan-esque performance of the tune, ...

Todd Haynes' inventive, immersive movie is full of interesting ideas. The Velvet Underground neatly sidesteps the usual rock-doc banalities as it plunges us into the Velvets and their world. THE ...

When the Velvet Underground performed around New York in the 1960s, they weren't the most popular band. "They had this off-putting aura, you know? Yikes, they were scary," says Martha Morrison, ...