In honor of Betsey Johnson’s 81st birthday, which was on Aug. 10, I present the unknown story of her wedding to the Velvet Underground’s John Cale in 1968 at NYC’s City Hall, which is ...

To rock snobs, art-school students, and dads everywhere, the Velvet Underground are the cornerstone of rock and roll. They ...

“Gypsy” is one of Fleetwood Mac’s most famous songs, but not everyone knows the meaning behind the “velvet underground” in the Stevie Nicks-penned track. Here’s how Nicks explained the ...

The journey of The Velvet Underground began in 1963 when future members – Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Angus Maclise (and later Maureen “Moe” Tucker) – started moving to New ...

He was trying to make the band more accessible.” Reed’s desires to make the Velvet Underground a more palatable band after leaving Warhol’s Plastic Exploding Inevitable make sense.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

When the Velvet Underground entered New York’s Mayfair Sound Studios to begin work on the album in September 1967, the vaunted “Summer of Love” was still grooving in San Francisco – and ...

It was during this time that a group of musicians, who would later become known as The Velvet Underground, started to come together. The journey begins in 1963 and 1964, when the future members of ...

Even if you haven’t listened to the self-titled album The Velvet Underground & Nico, odds are you know the album art. Against a white background, sits the famed banana, and written in cursive to ...

The Velvet Underground soon found a more appreciative audience when artist Andy Warhol spotted them and set them up at the Factory, his Manhattan studio-and-happening space.