Recent Velvet Underground News:
Welsh Velvet Underground founder sues Andy Warhol Foundation to protect the band's iconic banana 'trademark' - Fri, 20 Jan 2012
IN THE early 1960s Welsh pianist John Cale left his Carmarthenshire home for New York, met Lou Reed and formed the Velvet Underground, one of the most influential bands in rock history.
'OK, fine' art hidden at Met - Sat, 11 Feb 2012
It's the Met's velvet underground. Cardboard boxes of flea market-quality paintings sit stashed away in the catacombs under the Metropolitan Museum of Art, far removed from the priceless masterpieces in the hallowed halls above, sources told The Post. "There are imitations of great works, velvet paintings, Bob Ross-style...
A Federal Court Will Decide Who Owns This Banana - Tue, 17 Jan 2012
The most mind-boggling fact inside the lawsuit that The Velvet Underground has filed against The Warhol Foundation is that in the 45 years since "The Velvet Underground & Nico" was released neither the band nor Andy Warhol, who designed the LP cover, bothered to trademark or copyright the banana design.
Lou Reed talks vinyl over MP3 at CSULB - Sun, 29 Jan 2012
Velvet Underground frontman describes recording and lsquo;Metal Machine Music.' ;
"It's a community of people who give a fuck." - Wed, 01 Feb 2012
Roboto was culturally significant out of all proportion to its size and resources by Bill O'Driscoll Someone once said of The Velvet Underground's first album that only 1,000 people bought it, but every one of them started a band. After reading Building a Better Robot, you might feel similarly about the first incarnation of the Mr. Roboto Project."¦ [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on ...
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