Brooklyn Vegan — This week: FACS rise from the ashes of Disappears, Stereolab's Tim Gane is back with his current group Cavern of Anti-Matter, Haley Bonar drops the "Bonar" and readies a Record Store Day Single, plus the new Dutch Velvet Underground and the retu... more info

NME — "I strive to build a world where the Velvet Underground would be more popular than the Rolling Stones" Ed Sheeran, Julian Casablancas The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has lamented the current state of modern popular music, arguing in a ... more info

Rolling Stone — A collection of unpublished Lou Reed poems will be released this spring as Do Angels Need Haircuts? The book will be accompanied by a 1971 recording of the Velvet Underground singer reciting the works at New York'sThis article originally appeare... more info

NME — Hear the Velvet Underground singer recite two of the poems Lou Reed in 1972 Unseen Lou Reed poems are set to be published in a new book. Titled Do Angels Need Haircuts?, the book …Continue reading » The post Lou Reed’s lost poems to be pub... more info

Guardian Music — Poetry reflecting on nationhood, sex and whiskey, written in 1970 after Lou Reed left the Velvet Underground, is to be published for the first time“We are the crystal gaze returned through the density and immensity of a berserk nation.” I... more info

NME — Velvet Underground icon also suggested they sack their managers Lou Reed and MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT have discussed how they reached out to Lou Reed with the offer of a collaboration, revealing that he turned …Continue reading » The ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: watch Bebe Buell join The Dandys for a cover of The Velvet Underground & NIco's "Femme Fatale" at the Highline show. Continue reading… more info

Metal Injection — Performing Velvet Underground's 1979 album The Velvet Underground & Nico and Adam and the Ants' 1980 album Kings of the Wild Frontier. The post Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro & More Slated To Perform At Mental Health Awareness Show appeared first on Meta... more info

Stereogum — Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Velvet Underground's debut, with The Velvet Underground & Nico , and the celebration stretched into this year with White Light/White Heat 's 50th birthday as well. The band's career is being spotlighted ... more info

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