Moe Tucker hates ‘Heroin’: The Velvet Underground drummer on the issues of creating rock history
A tale of two stories.
The Velvet Underground
When The Velvet Underground survived a week of shows without Lou Reed and Nico in 1966
The Velvet Underground played Chicago in June 1966 without Reed or Nico.
Color footage of the Velvet Underground performing in 1969 unearthed!
Yes, you read that right—previously unseen color film of the Velvet Underground has been discovered! Left sitting on a shelf for who knows how long,…
The *other* Velvet Underground featured a future AC/DC founder and a singer who set himself on fire
Did you know there was another 1960s group called the Velvet Underground? The American Velvet Underground are now pretty much a household name, but for…
A pre-Velvet Underground Nico’s first single with a young Jimmy Page and Brian Jones
Before she became the Teutonic ice queen chanteuse of the Velvet Underground, Nico, via her then boyfriend Rolling Stone Brian Jones, was introduced to Stones…
A mysterious army of angry Velvet Underground fans respond to negative review of first VU show, 1965
On December 11th, 1965, the Velvet Underground played at a high school in New Jersey. It was the first show the Velvets played for money,…
That time the Velvet Underground’s ‘Venus in Furs’ was used to peddle tires…
It’s difficult to tell which lyric in Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs,” off of the band’s debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico, so causes…
A bearded (!) Bryan Ferry covers the Velvet Underground after Jerry Hall dumps him for Mick Jagger
As 1977 began, Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry and model Jerry Hall were engaged. By the end of the year, they were finished, with Ferry…
Banana: After 50 years the ultimate Warhol Velvet Underground mystery is finally (almost) solved!!
It was fifty years ago this week that the future began with the Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, and his banana. The destruction and rebuilding of…
‘Sunday Morning’ animation celebrates ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico,’ released 50 years ago today
When illustrator James Eads saw the morphing gifs Chris McDaniel (aka TheGlitch.og) made from his work, he described the result as not “moving so as…