Last year, the eternally boss Velvet Underground legend John Cale released his queasy and perplexingly titled solo album Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood. And now, the drone-pop…   Read Story »

Whether you experience Christmas as a spiritual curative or a wretched crucible likely depends upon your capacity to enjoy the Yuletide season's truly disassociate spirit of insanity. Most of us may…   Read Story »

Attempting to rank songs by the Velvet Underground -- the '27 Yankees of rock-music catalogs -- is almost inevitably going to end in tears. Upon hearing of this assignment, our dear friend and fellow…   Read Story »

As a music fan, it’s hard to express the heart-palpitating, adrenaline-boosting excitement of getting an email asking if you would like to interview rock legend John Cale. As one of the founders of…   Read Story »

The former Velvet Underground member John Cale will soon release his new solo album Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood, and you know an album has to be good if it's going to justify a title like that.…   Read Story »

This fall, the former Velvet Underground member John Cale will release a new solo album that for some reason he's decided to call Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood. The first single is a triumphant…   Read Story »

On Record Store Day this past weekend, the former Velvet Underground member John Cale released Extra Playful Transitions, a 12" EP of artists like Tim Hecker and Maria Minerva remixing his tracks.…   Read Story »

Velvet Underground figurehead John Cale's new video for "Catastrofuk" is a pretty freaky scene (basically, The Alice In Wonderland tea party scene + the moon!) which coincides with the controlled…   Read Story »

Hey, what are members of the Velvet Underground up to? Lots, apparently: John Cale played all of his 1973 album, Paris 1919 at UCLA's Royce Hall with his band and the UCLA Philharmonia last…   Read Story »

Baltimore-based Thrill Jockey crew Arbouretum and recent psych-rock signees Pontiak, three brothers originally from Virginia currently residing in Brooklyn, have teamed up for a 7-song LP-only split…   Read Story »