The Velvet Underground is one of those bands that was somewhat ignored while in their heyday but have gone on to be deeply influential as time has passed. Fronted by Lou Reed, the group delivered four ...

Todd Haynes' inventive, immersive movie is full of interesting ideas. The Velvet Underground neatly sidesteps the usual rock-doc banalities as it... Velvet Underground documentary gets to the heart of ...

The Velvet Underground Experience exhibition opens in NYC on October 10 and features photographs, portraits, films, videos, live concerts, a VR experience, and musical workshops. In anticipation of ...

Back in October 2018, The Feelies played a special show at Jersey City’s White Eagle Hall where their main set was all Velvet Underground covers. (It was in conjunction with the Velvet Underground ...

Dave Grohl closed out his Hanukkah Sessions with he and producer Greg Kurstin releasing a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Rock and Roll." In announcing the new song, Grohl wrote about what it meant ...

On the forthcoming tribute album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico, a whole lot of great artists come together to cover every song on the Velvet Underground’s classic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. The Velvet Underground and Nico (also known as the ‘Banana Album’ due to ...

Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the National, TV on the Radio and more have created custom Tidal playlists of their favorite Velvet Underground songs for The Velvet ...

Here are two widely known facts about John Cale: He was a founding member of the Velvet Underground, and infused the group with its astringent avant-garde sensibility; and he once decapitated a ...

The Velvet Underground are one of the 20th century’s most influential bands, even though nobody paid attention to them back when they were making records in the ‘60s. The original lineup led by Lou ...