Articles tagged "the velvet underground"

Column: Pickin' Down the Line

Time for a Repress: ‘The Gilded Palace of Sin’

by Bob Proehl

[30.Mar.09] :. For people lucky enough to stumble upon the Flying Burrito Brothers, they made country cool. The music's simplicity and emotive directness, often derided and mocked by hipsters, could now be valid, vital and mean something to a modern audience.

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Sound Affects

Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…—Episode 2

by Zeth Lundy

[10.Dec.08] :. Since we’re in the thick of the holiday season, I should mention that the instrumental theme song to Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… (Wednesdays at 9pm EST/PST on the Sundance...

Sound Affects

Separate But Very Equal: The (Other) Important Albums of 1968 Feature

Day One: Frank Zappa to The Band

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Nov.08] :. A Sgt. Pepper's-inspired satire…a platter of pure soul sizzle…the second act of rock's Warhol-weaned avant-garde…the beautiful noise of two voices in unison…and a backup 'band' comes into their own. Five definitive LPs -- five statements of solid rock royalty.

Separate But Very Equal: The (Other) Important Albums of 1968

Music Feature

All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Warhol Years 1965–1967, Part Two

by Peter Hogan

[14.Aug.07] :. In the second of two exclusive PopMatters book excerpts from The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground, Hogan offers a who's who of Andy Warhol's Factory people.

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Music Feature

All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Warhol Years 1965–1967, Part One

by Peter Hogan

[13.Aug.07] :. In the first of two exclusive PopMatters book excerpts from The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground, Hogan details the energizing effect that meeting Andy Warhol had on the Velvet Underground's career. Stay tuned for part two tomorrow.

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Music DVD Review

The Velvet Underground: Under Review [DVD]

by Charlotte Robinson

[24.Apr.06] :. Yes, it would have been nice if the Velvet Underground had made 10 million dollars, but it's even better that they made music that still influences people today.

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The Velvet Underground: Velvet Redux: Live MCMXCIII [DVD]

by Jon Langmead

[1.Mar.06] :. That these concerts happened was an amazing thing and this is a fitting, worthwhile document.

The Velvet Underground: self-titled

by Dennis Tyhacz

[2.Dec.04] :. The Velvet Underground. A great deal of ink has been spilled over this New York City band over the past 30+ years. Ever since the fateful evening Lou Reed left the group following their final gig at...

The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico

by Marshall Bowden

[18.Sep.02] :. The Velvet Underground & Nico is one of those debut albums where the band got absolutely everything right. It is at once primitive in its execution and epic in its aspirations, dark yet...

The Velvet Underground & Nico: self-titled

by Adrien Begrand

[30.Jul.02] :. What more needs to be said about The Velvet Underground’s first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, that hasn’t been said already, countless times in the past, by musicians,...

    The Velvet Underground: Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes

by Jason Thompson

[15.Oct.01] :. You can’t discuss punk music and not talk about The Velvet Underground and their great legacy that continues to inspire musicians from all walks of life to this day. When the VU released their...

The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico

by Jason Thompson

For me, it’s hard to imagine what rock and roll would be like had there been no Velvet Underground. In my opinion, the band’s music is even more important than that of the Beatles. And...

    The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat

by Jason Thompson

Coming down from the non-success of their debut album, The Velvet Underground took an entirely different approach with their second release, White Light/White Heat. Lou Reed fired Andy Warhol...