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June 2024

  • Black and white portrait of John Cale.

    ‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention

  • John Cale.

    John Cale: Poptical Illusion review – counterculture icon finds his fun side

May 2024

  • La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, Installation view, 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, 2015 Photo: Jung Hee Choi. Copyright © Jung Hee Choi 2015.

    Marian Zazeela obituary

    Artist who collaborated with her husband La Monte Young on a series of installations aimed at flooding and altering the senses

January 2023

  • John Cale, white-haired, his arm raised, reaching out to the camera.

    Artist of the week
    John Cale: Mercy review – the titan of cool misses a trick

  • John Cale in a black T-shirt wearing a string of pearls.

    ‘Humanity hit a brick wall’: John Cale on the Velvets, Nico, Covid and a gun-ridden world gone bad

December 2022

  • From left … John Cale, Raye and Dave Okumu.

    2023 culture preview
    The best new music to look forward to in 2023

    Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

October 2022

  • ‘There’s this mystery about him’ … (clockwise from top left) John Cale, James Dean Bradfield, Gruff Rhys and Cate Le Bon.

    The outsider’s outsider: John Cale by Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys and James Dean Bradfield

    Before they take to the stage with Cale for his 80th birthday concert, the three reflect on how Wales’s greatest living musician subverted what it means to be a Welsh musician

September 2022

  • Lou Reed, second right, and John Cale, right, with their Primitives bandmates, c1964.

    Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 review – revelatory early cuts

  • Velvet Underground At The Delmonico Hotel<br>Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground performs on stage at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry annual dinner, The Delmonico Hotel, New York, 13th January 1966. (Photo by Adam itchie/Redferns)

    Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed’s lost demo tape: ‘He really wasn’t that interested in his past’

June 2022

  • Lou Reed performing with the Velvet Underground in 1966.

    Lou Reed’s earliest Velvet Underground demos unearthed for reissue

    Recordings from May 1965 were sealed for nearly 50 years, and reveal folk-like renditions of songs including I’m Waiting for the Man and Heroin

April 2022

  • Songs For Drella Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    ‘They didn’t go round the corner for beer’: Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs for Drella

  • Memory and recovery … John Cale and Lou Reed in Songs for Drella.

    Songs for Drella review – Lou Reed and John Cale’s moving journey into Warhol

October 2021

  • "Dark Waters" Press Conference<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 08: Director Todd Haynes at the "Dark Waters" Press Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel on November 08, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage)

    Todd Haynes: ‘This world is too cosy. Except cosy is almost too cosy a word’

    Making a documentary about the Velvet Underground transported the film-maker to a ‘distant planet’ and more radical time. He talks about his envy of musicians, the spirit of Factory-era New York and ‘our lost spirit of revolt’

September 2021

  • Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

    Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song review – the inimitable mysteries of music

    Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s respectful doc tells the story of the artist through the life of his 1984 song, by turns a modern prayer, symbolist poem and divine gift

July 2021

  • The Velvet Underground, with Nico.

    The Velvet Underground review – Todd Haynes doc gets under the art-rockers’ skin

    With insights by the band’s former members and friends, this film takes its job seriously – even if it shies away from discordant notes

April 2019

  • Kraftwerk In Front Of World Time Clock In Keio Plaza Hotel<br>Kraftwerk in front of world time clock in Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, September 1981. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

    The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked!

    Brexit is delayed – so voyager avec nous on a trans-European tour of music, from Paris to Berlin via Finistère. Tout le monde à bord!

March 2019

  • Larry 'Ratso' Sloman

    Dylan, the Fugs and rock'n'roll riots: the wild life of Larry 'Ratso' Sloman

    He drank with Leonard Cohen, ribbed Bob Dylan and Joan Baez gave him his nickname. Now, 68 years into an extraordinary life, the writer is releasing his first album – with a little help from Nick Cave

July 2018

  • Tinariwen 2017

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: your songs about deserts

    Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Brand New Heavies and Big Country are among the artists making this week’s reader-curated list

January 2018

  • St. Vincent in San Francisco, January 22.

    Vampire Weekend, St Vincent and Feist to headline End of the Road festival

    Julia Holter to play her only UK festival date alongside acts including Velvet Underground founder John Cale and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy

November 2017

  • Ed Vulliamy

    Why The Velvet Underground’s landmark debut album still resonates after 50 years

    Ed Vulliamy
    The Velvet Underground & Nico comes home this week, as John Cale and guests prepare to play it in its entirety in New York
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