Founding member Lou Reed, alongside John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, revealed the name’s origins in ...

Warhol’s (mostly) hands-off managerial style both helped and hurt the Velvet Underground. His name opened doors for them, as with their signing to Verve. By giving them rehearsal space and ...

For John Cale, Lou Reed, and The Velvet Underground, working alongside German vocalist Nico was rarely a harmonious affair, ...

Andy Warhol quickly tired of the ‘Erupting’ part. He was still smarting from his split with muse/anima Edie Sedgwick, who’d recently left his orbit for Bob Dylan. But he had to attend to his latest ...

Many artists have been influenced by Andy Warhol, but few are as prolific and productive as Mark Mothersbaugh. The co-founder ...

While no performances are planned, the conference follows the publication of the band's book, The Velvet Underground: New York Art which features Reed's handwritten music and lyrics, rare photographs, ...

With the new issue of Uncut upon us we are delighted to bring you a Velvet Underground playlist of ... universe where Reed never met Cale or Warhol and became just another Greenwich Village ...

Women such as model Nico, who sang with experimental band The Velvet Underground, or Brigid Berlin, an acclaimed artist who was part of Warhol’s biggest prank, when, in 1969, he declared all of ...

When Warhol was working with the Velvet Underground in the mid-1960s he came up with the concept of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. These were live shows where the Velvet Underground would play ...

Andy Warhol certainly had an impact on art and ... had his own TV programme and managed the seminal rock group The Velvet Underground. Despite this diversity of work, it was all identified with ...