Founding member Lou Reed, alongside John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, revealed the name’s origins in ...

Lou Reed is the face of the Velvet Underground. The band would not have had the impact that it did without the contributions ...

Somewhere in Los Angeles, a studio switchboard lights up. A receptionist takes the call, puts it through to one of the ...

As part of Blondie, Clem Burke's incredible drum style would usher in a new era of music. Here he picked the 10 records which ...

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band — I came across an album I really loved (still perhaps my favorite of all time): The Velvet Underground and Nico. It was a record full of lines about bad ...

Craft Recordings will reissue six records from Original Jazz Classics, including newly remastered editions of Bill ...

If you’ve got a box of old records lying around, it might be a good time to check what’s actually in there. Find out what ...

Arguably, though, this internal conflict within the band helped The Velvet Underground and Nico to become such a unique and diverse record. It might have been ignored upon its initial release, but the ...

The early pressings of The Velvet Underground & Nico's self-titled album with the Andy Warhol "banana" cover. Some very early ...