Velvet Underground's White Light/White HeatBurger Records Tribute to

The second Velvet Underground album, White Light/White Heat, marked a stylistic shift from the muted nihilism that defined the band on Velvet Underground and Nico toward a more abrasive, shambling sound; a sound that better matched songwriter Lou Reed's assaultive outsider epics. Nearly half a century on, the Velvet Underground's contribution to the canon is lost on no one. To take a macro view, White Light/White Heat was but a leg in the VU's fierce run. But it was the first ...

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