Topic: The Velvet Underground

New Band of the Day Live – review

Five years after it was launched by the indefatigable Paul Lester, the Guardian's Band of the Day column has gained a live incarnation. Reflecting...
With a foot on the ground / I can turn it around / Warming up to the sound / And I'm not coming down," croons Imperial Teen masse over a...
By Max Mertens . . The members of The Black Angels were born in the wrong era. That's a compliment. Not only do the Austin, Texas five-piece take...

"Baby rockers" land the right punches on debut album

PARIS (Reuters) - In the 1920s Kid Bombardos was the ring name of a young French boxer admired for his hard punches and his speed.Today, his three great-grand children along with a childhood friend keep up the fighting spirit but on the ...
Aloe Blacc Friday at 9, Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., (212) 414-5994 Born Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins, Aloe Blacc creates a funky brand of soul...

DUM DUM GIRLS: He Gets Me High (Sub Pop)

In four songs, the Dum Dum Girls manage to evoke The Ronettes, Velvet Underground and The Ramones and end with a Smiths cover. So, apart from the...

Gregg Allman and the sounds of '67

Gregg Allman is releasing the soulful album Low Country Blues on Jan. 18, 44 years after he and his brother Duane released their first album as the...

Jonathan Safran Foer's tribute to Bruno Schulz cuts both ways

Brian Eno once said of The Velvet Underground that although they didn't sell very many records, everyone who bought those records went on to form a...

30 years of Richman

0 View Larger Image . For the past 21 years, Jonathan Richman has played an annual December show in San Francisco to celebrate the birthday of Dawn...

Bridging psychedelia to the present

0 View Larger Image . This quartet sounds as if they're floating through the cosmos. The Spyrals play 12-string psychedelic rock with heavy...