Guardian Music — Last week it was all about a coming together of hands. This week, it's hands again; but hands that are hard at workLast week, eh? What a wonderful time it was. A thing of joy, wonder and colliding palms; truly what RR is all about. I would cry, if I ... more info

411 Mania — From The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Metallica's Metallica, to Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, and The Velvet Undergound'sThe Velvet Underground and... more info

Guardian Music — Velvet Underground legend infuriates fans with a 'fearless night of non-rock'. Still, at least it wasn't his concert for caninesLou Reed, Laurie Anderson and John Zorn faced a furious crowd on Friday night, playing cacophonous music to a cacophony of... more info

Pitchfork — For his Record Club series, Beck gathers friends together to cover an entire album in a day, then posts the results to his website. So far, the Record Club choices have come from canonical or at least critically respected artists: the Velvet Underg... more info

Pitchfork — -- The Quine Tapes is a six-LP live box set that documents the Velvet Underground onstage in 1969. VU super-fan and future Lou Reed guitarist Robert Quine recorded the shows, and the set includes posters, handbills, and rare photos. It's coming soo... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The tree that was the Velvet Underground has borne all manner of strange fruit since its inception and Hackamore Brick’s One Kiss Leads To Another, from 1971, may very well have been the first of its direct descendants. Brooklyn based, the band pre... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Lou Reed is set to join Gorillaz for their Glastonbury headline performance tomorrow night, group head Damon Albarn has revealed.   The Velvet Underground legend appears on Some Kind Of Nature... more info

Guardian Music — Is he a genius or a hoaxer with too much time on his hands? Possibly bothHometown: London.The lineup: Ergo Phizmiz (vocals, music).The background: Listening to Ergo Phizmiz, we're torn between declaring him a genius and wondering aloud, as per Greil ... more info

Nialler9 — Aloe Blacc’s followup to the small time smash ‘I Need A Dollar’ is a cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Femme Fatale’. It’s taken from the forthcoming still in production Good Things, produced by Truth & Soul Records but released on Sto... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — The Coney Island Mermaid Parade might be one of the few last vestiges of “old” New York’s theatricality. Which is to say, every year it’s okay to dress up like a drag queen fish, hang out with the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed (pictured abo... more info