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

KEXP Seattle — Beck has shared a new (but not first) cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting For The Man,” off The Velvet Underground and Nico. The song is for Spotify’s “Music Happens Here” series, which has previously included songs from Loca... more info

JamBase — Beck has shared a new cover recording of “I’m Waiting For The Man” by The Velvet Underground. more info

Stereogum — Back in 2009, Beck launched an online project called Record Club. For a while, he'd get together groups of fellow musicians, and they'd cover entire albums -- some classic (Songs Of Leonard Cohen), some maybe not so much (Yanni Live At The Acropolis)... more info

Stereogum — Macaulay Culkin is the latest guest to grace Marc Maron's long-running interview podcast WTF . During their conversation, Culkin reveals that the Pizza Underground, his pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band, has come to an end. "I was a little ... more info