The Velvet Underground News

Unrehearsed, Unplanned and — Famous Date: 01 Oct 2009
The Cornell Daily Sun - This past summer, Beck began a new music project — Record Club. He spends a day in the studio with his ever-so-cool musician friends and they cover entire albums (they’ve finished The Velvet Underground & Nico and have moved on to Songs of Leonard Cohen ) releasing one track every Thursday; unrehearsed, unplanned and sometimes unwell. While some of the covers are quite good — “Sunday Morning ...

Pavement to curate England's ATP Weekend Date: 09 Oct 2009
LiveDaily - Pavement [ tickets ] will headline and curate England's ATP Weekend May 14-16 at Butlin's holiday camp in Somerset, according to an NME report. The "All Tomorrow's Parties" gig is Pavement's first scheduled UK show following an extended hiatus. ATP, named after the Velvet Underground song, was founded in 1999 as an alternative to large-scale festivals like Glastonbury and Reading. It also ...

Yo La Tengo doesn't fit in a box Date: 10 Oct 2009
Standard-Examiner - The hardest point to get across about the band Yo La Tengo is the style of music the group plays. Sure, critics have drawn comparisons -- most commonly to The Velvet Underground, a rock band that found fame as part of Andy Warhol's art experiment known as The Factory. In fact, Yo La Tengo played The Underground in the movie "I Shot Andy Warhol." read more

Art on Velvet Date: 11 Oct 2009
Toronto Sun - Nearly every book about The Velvet Underground -- and nearly every review of a book about The Velvet Underground -- opens with the same pithy cliche attributed to Brian Eno: "Only 5,000 people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band."

Nat Finkelstein, ‘Court Photographer’ of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Dies at 76 Date: 13 Oct 2009
New York Times - Mr. Finkelstein’s photographs of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and the Velvet Underground are among the most famous images of Warhol’s Factory and its revolving cast of characters

Obituary: Nat Finkelstein / House photographer for Warhol Date: 18 Oct 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Nat Finkelstein, whose photographs of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and the Velvet Underground are among the most famous images of Warhol's Factory and its revolving cast of characters, died on Oct. 2 at his home in Shandaken, N.Y. He was 76.

Jim DeRogatis: The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wildside Date: 28 Oct 2009
Creative Loafing Atlanta - By Chad Radford When Lester Bangs, Lenny Kaye and every other half-cocked rock critic on the planet has weighed in on the Velvet Underground, what's left to discuss? Not much. That's why Chicago Sun-Times pop critic Jim DeRogatis lets the pictures do the talking in this friggin' gorgeous collection of photos, fliers and album art that captures the Velvets in all of their glorious vanity. A ...

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains Date: 28 Oct 2009
Drowned In Sound - Cymbals Eat Guitars' name comes from a Lou Reed quote. This we shall get out of the way early on. Verbatim, he described the Velvet Underground sound as “cymbals eat out guitars”, an all together less pleasant image.

News in english about The Velvet Underground (October / 2009)