Your humble Playlist correspondent doesn’t regret much about his life, but he does regret this: the night in 2006 when legendary Manhattan punk rock club CBGB closed its doors for the very last time, ...

In July 1988, model and singer Nico passed away aged 49 after falling from her bicycle in Spain. Nico had been a model for Coco Chanel in the 1950s and acted for Fellini, but she is probably best ...

The one-take recording remains one of the most influential moments in rock history.

Lou Reed has historically stolen the show when it comes to the legend and infamy of The Velvet Underground. However, the band really was the sum of its parts. And Sterling Morrison, the band’s ...

The Velvet Underground sounded like nothing else that came out in 1967. It's easy to hear why: Unlike so many other classic albums that came out that year, the Velvet Underground's debut felt like ...

Lou Reed wanted to be a star in 1970. It wasn't always this way. On the first three albums he made with the Velvet Underground, he was contentious, abrasive and as far from the mainstream as an artist ...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Apple will release the film in theaters and on Apple TV+ on Friday, October 15. Hypnotically vibrating in the ...

Timeline of ‘The Velvet Underground: New York Extravaganza,’ installation view (all photos by and © William Beaucardet, courtesy Philharmonie de Paris, unless ...

In 1982, Brian Eno noted that The Velvet Underground & Nico only sold 30,000 copies in its first five years. Yet, as Eno put it, “everyone who bought one of these 30,000 copies started a band.” The ...

Part of the backlash now facing Baby Boomers—seen in all those memes and essays blaming grandma for the state of capitalism—may simply stem from overexposure. The flower children’s children grew up in ...

On a recent night, I was driving down Broadway when, a few blocks below Fourteenth Street, I spotted a large, showy sign above one of the storefronts. Though I’d never noticed it before, the outsized ...