The Velvet Underground

Stereogum — Weird: The Velvet Underground's second album doesn't feel 50 years old. Granted, Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison are no longer with us, Mo Tucker went tea party, and John Cale... well, he's a still-active 75. But aside from the fact that guitar-bass-d... more info

KEXP Seattle — Beck has shared a new (but not first) cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting For The Man,” off The Velvet Underground and Nico. The song is for Spotify’s “Music Happens Here” series, which has previously included songs from Loca... more info

JamBase — Beck has shared a new cover recording of “I’m Waiting For The Man” by The Velvet Underground. more info

Stereogum — Back in 2009, Beck launched an online project called Record Club. For a while, he'd get together groups of fellow musicians, and they'd cover entire albums -- some classic (Songs Of Leonard Cohen), some maybe not so much (Yanni Live At The Acropolis)... more info

Stereogum — Macaulay Culkin is the latest guest to grace Marc Maron's long-running interview podcast WTF . During their conversation, Culkin reveals that the Pizza Underground, his pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band, has come to an end. "I was a little ... more info

Uncut — All four studio albums plus their “lost” 1969 album and Nico’s Chelsea Girl All four studio albums plus their “lost” 1969 album and Nico’s Chelsea Girl The post New Velvet Underground box set announced appeared first on Uncut. more info

Stereogum — In 1971, the former Velvet Underground member John Cale recorded a song called "Child's Christmas In Wales," a sort of adaptation of a famous Dylan Thomas poem of the same name. Thomas and Cale are both famous Welshmen. As far as I know, nobody in Su... more info

JamBase — Watch Chris Robinson join The Terrapin All-Stars on a The Velvet Underground cover last night in Fairfax, California. more info

Stereogum — Kevin Morby has been generous with music over the last couple years between City Music and Singing Saw 's one-two punch and a handful of loosies, including last month's Velvet Underground cover with Katie Crutchfield and the one-off "Baltimore." To... more info

New York Times — In two programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mr. Cale revisited a half-century of hardheaded music and looked boldly into the future. more info