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The Velvet Underground Win Sound Of The City's Quintessential New York Musician Tournament

4619 days ago
TopixAfter weeks of voting, impassioned campaigns, comment-section arguments, and matchups that seemed nearly impossible to come down on one side of, Sound of the City's take on March Madness - in which we set out to crown the quintessential New York musi... more info

Dean Wareham :: The AD Interview

4624 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardIt might have seemed just a bit too obvious to ask Dean Wareham to work on a project scoring screen test films done by Andy Warhol, but really it was all too perfect. Wareham has received his fair share of comparisons to the Velvet Underground over t... more info

Spiritualized – review

4628 days ago
Guardian MusicHackney Empire, LondonIt's a bit of a caricature, but in the world of art, there are two types of practitioners: first, the artist who leaps from one subject to another, mixing media, restlessly looking for the next new thing. Then there are those wh... more info

Veronica Falls – review

4639 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Duchess, YorkPop is reinventing so many old sounds that it was only a matter of time before groups got round to what John Peel called the "shambling bands" – a strand of 1980s indie indebted to the Velvet Underground and Orange Juice. Veronica ... more info

AV festival – review

4647 days ago
Guardian MusicSage, GatesheadThis year marks the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth, the 20th anniversary of his death, and 11 years since the commencement of the longest concert in history – a performance of Cage's ASLSP (As Slow As Possible), played on the... more info

The Velvet Underground + Gigamesh

4648 days ago
Panda ToesSo I'm watching Moneyball for the first time. And yo. Why is Brad Pitt lifting weights and jogging and doing pull-ups and working out in general throughout the entire friggin' movie? Are you serious? Dude's out there getting paid to get even more han... more info

Adam Ritchie: Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd photos from 1965/66 at Artisan, London

4650 days ago
Here Comes The Flood Adam Ritchie has an exhibition at Artisan, London, showing his photos of The Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd. The photographs capture the energy and colour of their legendary earliest appearances in New York and London. Some have been shown at t... more info

Straight and narrow: how pop lost its gay edge

4653 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom the blues to the Beatles, from the Who to Nirvana, the biggest acts in pop have been hugely shaped by gay culture. Why has that spirit now disappeared?Nicky Wire laughs. "I'm not sure where we got the slogan from," he says, of the T-shirt the M... more info

The Game - The Game Scraps Aussie Gig After Falling Ill

4659 days ago
ContactMusicRapper The Game was forced to scrap a show in Australia on Wednesday 22Feb12 after he was struck down with a mystery illness The former G-Unit star was set to play at the Velvet Underground venue in Cairns as part of his Game Red Tour 2012 trek but h... more info

Kurt Vile – review

4659 days ago
Guardian MusicKoko, LondonNow that every MacBook is an Abbey Road studio you can destroy with one fumbled Frappuccino, it can seem as though 87% of Americans have become frazzled troubadours knocking out no-fi fuzz-folk albums in the hope of bagging the ultimate U... more info

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