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 ...

David Bowie, the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads all owe a big debt to another Rock & Roll Hall of Fame act: the Velvet Underground. And although it’s been five decades since those influential art ...

In the early 1960s, the streets of New York City’s Lower East Side and East Village were buzzing with the sounds of a burgeoning music scene. It was during this time that a group of musicians, who ...

In early 1968 the Velvet Underground released “White Light / White Heat.” Listen today and it’s an album that enacts beastly, incommunicable acts upon its instruments, be it the schizophrenic riffs ...

Timeline of ‘The Velvet Underground: New York Extravaganza,’ installation view (all photos by and © William Beaucardet, courtesy Philharmonie de Paris, unless ...

When Maureen Tucker, the refreshingly frank former drummer of the Velvet Underground, looks back on the group’s self-titled third album, released in 1969, she still remembers the trepidation she felt ...

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 ...

The Velvet Underground will release a new vinyl box set made up entirely of performances from their 1969 residency in San Francisco. Though the band never achieved massive commercial success, it ...

Listen to noodling tracks by Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Goose and more. By Marc Tracy To celebrate the return of daylight saving time, here’s a playlist full of songs about sunshine and ...

Michael Stipe first heard the Velvet Underground when, as an Army brat living in Southern Illinois, he happened upon the band’s music in the sale bin. Speaking by phone last week, he recalled: “I went ...