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Steve Gunn tells us his Top 10 of 2016, expands tour with dates in January
Steve Gunn has had a great year, releasing his excellent Matador debut, Eyes on the Lines, back in June, a Record Store Day 12″ on Black Friday and has been on the road more than not. He’ll wrap up...
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Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White releasing collaborative covers LP (listen),...
Matthew E. White met Flo Morrissey at a Lee Hazlewood tribute in London where they performed “Some Velvet Morning.” The two hit it off and from there it spun off into an album of duet covers,...
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Luna releasing covers LP & instrumental EP, share cover of Fleetwood Mac’s...
Luna have been back in action for a couple years now and have finally decided to get back into the studio, with two new records on the way, though neither might not be exactly what fans might want....
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1967’s best rock bands still touring (The Who, Dead, Beatles, Clapton, Floyd,...
photo by Dana Distortion It’s officially the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and last week we published a list of the 50 Best Psychedelic Rock Albums of the Summer of Love (aka 1967). Check out...
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Monterey Pop screenings, photo exhibit & more Summer of Love stuff
As you may have heard, Monterey Pop Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary last weekend. In honor of that, original Monterey co-producer Lou Adler (with help from Coachella organizers Goldenvoice...
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Nico biopic hitting theaters; Marissa Nadler, U.S. Girls & more playing...
Nico, 1988 the biopic about the last years of singer and Velvet Underground collaborator Nico, is being released on August 1 in NYC and August 3 in L.A., with more cities to come. The film stars Trine...
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Alice Cooper covers Velvet Underground’s ‘Rock & Roll’ on new LP ‘Detroit...
Alice Cooper will release a new album, Detroit Stories, on February 26 via earMUSIC. The first single off the album is a cover of The Velvet Underground’s Loaded classic “Rock & Roll” which...
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Lou Reed’s pre-Velvet Underground work for Pickwick Records compiled for new...
Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with Reed...
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Watch Beach House’s Victoria Legrand join Yo La Tengo for Velvet...
One day after playing a very intimate Philadelphia show in stripped-down duo form, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally headed to NYC and Beach House opened Night 6 of Yo La Tengo‘s Hanukkah 2023 run at...
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Moe Tucker’s tribute to former bandmate Lou Reed
We already got to read John Cale’s tribute to his former Velvet Underground bandmate Lou Reed, who passed away in October, and now VU drummer Moe Tucker has written a lengthy obituary on The Observer....
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Julian Casablancas covered Velvet Underground and Aimee Man covered The...
We mentioned that Julian Casablancas was featured on the soundtrack for HBO’s Vinyl. Now his contribution has been released, and it’s a cover of the Velvet Underground classic “Run Run Run.” You can...
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John Cale performing VU’s debut LP in Paris with Animal Collective & more
John Cale @ BAM, 2013 (photo by Greg Cristman) Velvet Underground founding member John Cale is set to perform the Velvet Underground’s classic 1967 debut album in full in Paris at the Philharmonie de...
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Iggy Pop, Julian Casablancas, Alison Mosshart & The Arcs perform covers on...
a still from the 3/13 episode of ‘VINYL’ Iggy Pop, who will soon release Post Pop Depression, is one of the artists featured on this week’s Vinyl soundtrack, contributing a cover of the Nervous...
View Articlethat time Sharon Jones sang ‘Sweet Jane’ with Lou Reed… (listen)
Lou, with a little help from Sharon Jones, delivers a great “Sweet Jane”. Steve Hunter on lead guitar. Rob Wasserman on electric double bass. It happened in Sydney. RIP Sharon. RIP Lou. also: Watch...
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Jim James played Terminal 5 (pics & setlist), livestreaming Atlanta show
A photo posted by Sarah (@sarahnade_me) on Nov 20, 2016 at 9:52pm PST My Morning Jacket’s Jim James is currently on tour supporting his terrific, of-the-moment protest album Eternally Even, and the...
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