The late 1960s and early ’70s found Lou Reed on a creative tear. Coming to light first with the incalculably influential Velvet Underground before venturing off onto a solo career that continues to the present, Reed spun tales of the grittiest sides of New York City, bringing to life hustlers, hoods, drug dealers and transvestites, [...]
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From The Velvets To The Voidoids by Clinton Heylin So, who has time to read these days? Well, I do…barely. I recently plowed through a book that offered plenty of insight into a few of rock music’s more lively and mysterious chapters, From The Velvets To The Voidoids by Clinton Heylin, noted scribe of, among [...]
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In the spirit of the upcoming Halloween weekend, Grand Rapids Press Sound Check writer John Sinkevics has posted his list of scariest rock songs ever. Included are tracks from Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly and the Velvet Underground. I would add Iron Maiden’s “Murders In The Rue Morgue,”Alice Cooper’s “Halo Of Flies” and Blind Melon’s “Skinned” [...]
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Eight songs that read more like German folk-tinged, experimental dirges than pop or rock music; such is Nico’s second solo record, 1969’s The Marble Index. With arrangements by her former Velvet Underground cohort John Cale and production by the enigmatic Frazier Mohawk, there have been few major label releases since that have cast commercial potential [...]
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Now that Sony and BMG have become a gigantic music conglomerate, we’re hoping that they’ll use those pooled resources to release interesting new products involving their massively extensive library. We’ve long been fans of the Columbia Legacy reissue project through Sony, but now we’re seeing that treatment adapted to BMG’s back catalog as well with [...]
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