All you really needed was a sense of adventure and the ingenuity to take music – rock 'n' roll, pop or whatever frontman Lou Reed called the songs he wrote for The Velvet Underground & Nico ...

Director Susanna Nicchiarelli encountered Nico's work the same way most people do: when a friend made her listen to The Velvet Underground and Nico. "When I first listened to it was one of the ...

A half-century on, The Velvet Underground and Nico remains the quintessential emblem of a certain brand of countercultural cool. Not the Haight-Ashbury or Sgt. Pepper kind but an eerier ...

The Velvet Underground & Nico' turns 50: Classic track-by-track review of one of the greatest albums ever made. By William Goodman For the budding music nerd, The Velvet Underground & Nico ...

The story goes that Brian Eno once said that while not a lot of people bought "The Velvet Underground and Nico" when it came out, everyone who did started a band. Nico went solo after The Velvets ...

So many books and stories abound about Lou Reed that you’d be forgiven for believing that nothing else could be said about ...

By Tyler Jenke The culture-affecting Charli XCX has revealed her fondness for the culture-defining Velvet Underground, praising their 1967 debut at Variety’s Hitmakers Awards. Appearing at the ...