Guardian Music — St David’s Hall, CardiffThe relentlessly innovative Velvet Underground star launched Cardiff’s Festival of Voice with the help of a choir, chamber orchestra and Charlotte ChurchFor Wales to launch its Festival of Voice – later to... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Intelligence ServiceFrom: Vancouver, CanadaSchool Me from crazed Vancouver rockers The Intelligence Service sounds like the B52s after a Frank Zappa blood transfusion. It's Rock Lobster reimagined as a Velvet Underground classic. My mind is o... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — His cover of I'm Set Free is awesome. It's one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs. A song so good it's a funeral contender, and this cover does it justice. -- Marissa Nadler Continue reading… more info

Rolling Stone — Sixteen of Lou Reed's solo recordings will comprise a new box set due out this fall. The RCA & Arista Album Collection spans the late Velvet Underground frontman's albums between 1972 and 1986. Reed spent the months prior to his death in 2013 remaste... more info

Guardian Music — The musician and songwriter on Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts, the Atlanta band Slang, Louis CK’s boldness, and his love of rapturous music writingBorn in Chicago in 1986, the musician and songwriter Ezra Furman played in the four-piece indi... more info

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Consequence of Sound — Smashing Pumpkins frontman also took on David Bowie and The Rolling Stones. more info

NME — Smashing Pumpkins frontman performed the acoustic covers at his tea house more info

Stereogum — The Smashing Pumpkins just wrapped up quite an eventful tour. The acoustic In Plainsong shows featured the return of founding guitarist James Iha, a stagecrasher, the debut of a new Smashing Pumpkins song, and covers of Hole, ZZ Top, and Prince. And ... more info

Guardian Music — The more important a band was, the harder it is for new material to match past glories – as the Velvet Underground, Pixies and Guns N’ Roses also found“It sounds like the Seahorses,” much of the world sighed, as the Stone Ro... more info