Stereogum — The Velvet Underground's seminal debut The Velvet Underground & Nico turned 50 this year, and to celebrate, former VU member John Cale is hosting two performances at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in New York. The first show took place last night, and... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, John Cale announced a series of retrospective shows to celebrate The Velvet Underground & Nico's 50th anniversary. Those shows take place next week at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music as part of their Next Wave Festival, and Cale has ... more info

JamBase — Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart will soon issue ‘RAMU,’ a new solo album with singles featuring Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Tank of Tank and The Bangas. more info

Stereogum — Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is releasing a new solo album called RAMU in a couple weeks, and it features some collaborations with other artists. Most notably for us is his team-up with Animal Collective's Avey Tare, who he worked with on a trac... more info

Stereogum — In my humble opinion, 2004's Sung Tongs is the best Animal Collective album. So it's exciting to learn that Panda Bear and Avey Tare, the two AnCo members responsible for creating the LP, have agreed to perform it in full for an upcoming Pitchfork ... more info

Stereogum — This week we interviewed the Lemon Twigs, Mims, Alison Goldfrapp with Gillian Gilbert, Emily Haines, and Chris Hillman. We reviewed Brockhampton and Brand New concerts, and albums by Foo Fighters, Havah, and the Killers. We celebrated the 10th annive... more info

Stereogum — One of the day's biggest new stories is that the Cassini spacecraft, the first probe ever to orbit Saturn, finished its 20-year mission when it crashed into Saturn early this morning. The probe accomplished a lot. It explored the moons of Titan and E... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — BuzzFeed shared an excerpt from Celeste Ng's new novel Little Fires Everywhere. Weekend Edition interviewed Ng. Stereogum reconsidered Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam album on its 10th anniversary. LIT interviewed author Jessie Chaffee. Pitchfork ... more info

Stereogum — Animal Collective's Avey Tare went on a bit of an unconventional route and decided not to share any advance singles for his new album, Eucalyptus -- he talks about that decision and the album as a whole in our interview with him -- and we'll see if t... more info

Nialler9 — A roundup of show announcements today: Shabazz Palaces are releasing not one but two “sci-fi Afrofuturist concept albums” tomorrow on Sub Pop and they’ll play Dublin’s Sugar Club on November 3rd. Animal Collective’s Avey Tare is to pl... more info