Rock and roll made a significant impression on a young Lou Reed, but one album above all ranks as his favourite of all time.

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Czechoslovakia was going through a period of transition away from communism, and the Velvet Underground were the soundtrack.

The band formed in Glasgow, Scotland by four teenagers in the late ’70s comes to the Kia Forum on Thursday, May 22 with ...

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These songs are classics today, but they faced backlash upon their release. They were censored or outright banned by radio stations and more.

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He was born in Natick, a small town in Massachusetts, in 1951. His passionate discovery of the Velvet Underground led him to ...

Gene Simmons was eight years old when he immigrated from Israel to Queens. He didn’t speak English and could hardly fathom ...

Lou Reed is the face of the Velvet Underground. The band would not have had the impact that it did without the contributions of John Cale, Nico, Mo Tucker and Sterling Morrison, but it was Reed ...

Guitarist Lewis Whiting discusses the band's much-anticipated headline performance at the Billboard U.K. Live experience (May ...

I saw the original four members of the Velvet Underground, yet I feel like I saw them at the wrong time.” Dean Wareham recalls over the phone, the morning after his third tour date in Ojai, CA. “I saw ...