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Book Notes - Rob Jovanovic "Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground "

5087 days ago
LargeHeartedBoyIn the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy ... more info

Now listening: reader playlist

5088 days ago
Guardian MusicNine sunny songs to get you through a grey dayEach week, we invite someone to share a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. Rose Clark is a history of art and english graduate who lives and works near London. Follow her on Twitter. T... more info

Five questions with Cowboy Junkies vocalist Margo Timmins

5094 days ago
Detroit Free PressAlmost 25 years have passed since Cowboy Junkies recorded the indelibly languid version of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane," which launched the band's career. Many more songs, sessions and tours have followed since then, but the Canadi... more info

The reaction to Viva Brother's break-up proves we love being part of a mob

5102 days ago
Guardian MusicViva Brother's split and Samantha Brick's Daily Mail article provoked torrents of abuse. Why? Can't we separate a person's worth from the quality of their workIt's a commonplace in consideration of art: separate the work from the person. Larkin's poe... more info

Lantern :: Burned Youth (Cassette)

5103 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardAlright, enough of the pretty. Switching gears, this has been scratching that Royal Trux itch of late – say, if paired with Spacemen 3′s Forged Prescriptions and the Velvet Underground’s ’67 Gymnasium bootleg. The three tracks below hail from... more info

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

5104 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

5109 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

5113 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

5124 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

5132 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

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