Beck's giving his website an overhaul. One of the new sections, Record Club, launched today with a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning." The idea behind the Record Club's for Beck and…   Read Story »

The National did a full-on cover of "What Goes On" at New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary Party this past Friday night. Maybe they were inspired by the various forms of "Caroline Says, Pt. II" and…   Read Story »

We posted the audio version of "Caroline Says, Pt. II." It's from Lou Reed's December '06 performance of Berlin at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. As mentioned, Matador's releasing said concert as a…   Read Story »

In the December issue of Blender, the magazine's editors have compiled what they see as the "The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever," opening with this little graph:Mumbled lyrics,…   Read Story »

Moscow's Xvostya offers a beer 'n' vodka-soaked polka cover of NIN's "Survivalism," Trent's pricy wall-of-synthesizers replaced by accordion, bottle, silverware, comb, guitar, handclaps, and (pretty…   Read Story »

Fans of alternate tunings and/or Lou Reed & John Cale's magical relationship should be hip to the Ostrich, but WFMU's Beware Of Blog sketches out the tale of the avian-named tuning for a lesson in VU…   Read Story »

Well kids, if you have a spare trust fund laying around and have a "thing" for Velvet Underground records, there's only 11 hours left before the year's most absurd acetate auction closes. For sale is…   Read Story »

The music mavens at the venerable Time magazine have compiled their list of the "ALL-TIME 100" albums -- unranked and broken down by decade. We're not sure what's better: that only five albums of the…   Read Story »