the velvet underground
Peter Buck and Kim Thayil Joined the Black Crowes to Cover R.E.M. and Velvet Underground
R.E.M.‘s Peter Buck and Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil joined the reunited The Black Crowes at their show in suburban Seattle at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery Amphitheatre on Tuesday. Buck joined the band for a cover of “The One I Love,” and was joined by Thayil for a cover of The Velvet Underground‘s “Rock & Roll.” The show was the latest stop on the reunited Robinson’s tour. They’re playing their biggest hits and songs from their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker. Future dates include stops in Santa Barbara, Denver and London. The Crowes also just announced that they’ll be playing in Japan in November You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful peo...
Hear Lou Reed’s Earliest Demo of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Heroin’
Light in the Attic Records has released another tantalizing piece of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground lore in the form of the earliest known recording of the song “Heroin.” The track will appear on the upcoming archival Reed collection Words & Music, May 1965, due out on Aug. 26. Put to tape by Reed in May 1965, nearly two years before its release on The Velvet Underground’s landmark debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico, this version of “Heroin” finds the artist accompanying himself on guitar. Structurally, it is essentially the same as the album version although it is more than three minutes shorter than what was eventually released in 1967. This demo predates by two months a version of “Heroin” recorded by Reed and Velvet Underground bandmates John Cale and Sterling Morrison ...
Hear Courtney Barnett’s Rollicking ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’ Cover
Never ignore a woman with bangs who sings rock and roll. Especially if they’re singing the Velvet Underground. Courtney Barnett takes on Nico’s vocals in a raw take of “I’ll Be Your Mirror.” The cover is a contributing piece to Verve’s I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico out Sept. 24. Barnett plays and sings it cool, providing a near-folk rendition of the majestic track. Heavier on the strums, the modern twist still keeps the simplistic, less-is-more aura Nico provided 54 years ago. And both women strike the tune with their different, yet low, seducing voices. “I love them… (The Velvet Underground & Nico),” Barnett says. “When I listen to “I’ll Be Your Mirror” and read the lyrics, I realize it’s a perfect song. I can relate to every inch of it. I just fe...
Hot Chip Revive the Velvet Underground’s ‘Candy Says’
Hot Chip has given The Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says,” off their 1969 album, Boston Tea Party (Live), the electronic treatment. Despite adding more tech to the sound, they stay fairly faithful to the original, which was a song the UK band used to play in their younger years. “Candy Says” is the lead track to announce Hot Chip’s latest compilation, Late Night Tales, dropping Oct. 2. Fever Ray, Nils Frahm and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith have contributed mixes to the record. “We’ve put together a mix of music which ties all of these ideas together and represents some of our favourite [sic] music new and old, some of it directly influential on Hot Chip and some of it music we have discovered and loved, been surprised by and connected to,” band co-founder Alexis Taylor said in a statement. “The...
The 25 Best Soundtrack Albums of the 1990s
In the 1980s, music and film collided for cross-promotional blockbusters both transcendent (Purple Rain) and transcendently cheesy (Footloose). In the ‘90s, soundtracks continued to sell in the millions, capturing cultural moments like the Seattle grunge of Singles or the Britpop and electronica of Trainspotting. Auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson reached deep into their record collections to set the mood while movies like Above the Rim and Menace II Society pioneered the concept of soundtracks as hip-hop mixtapes. A great soundtrack can propel an unsuccessful single, like Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose,” to the top of the charts, or revive a decades-old hit, like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It can also push a cult singer-songwriter like Elliott Smith or Aimee Mann to an Oscar perf...
