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INSANE: The velvet underground | Rare Historical Photos

He paid 75 cents for a record, and sold it for $25,200 later

A collector discovered a rare Velvet Underground acetate in 2002. This recording contained early versions of songs from their debut album. He later sold the acetate for $25,200 to an anonymous buyer. The acetate's existence remained largely unknown for many years. A remastered version was eventually released to the public.

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“I know that there’s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said”: Charli XCX reflects on the reaction to her 'dancefloor is dead' lyric, and says she's not about to release a rock record

“I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing"

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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out remains one of The Smiths’ most heartbreaking songs - a near-perfect example of the potency of Marr and Morrissey’s songwriting partnership

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“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: Why this cult classic was hailed as one of the most influential albums of all time

“A savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback”

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Charli xcx: Wuthering Heights review – atonal, amorous anthems that more than stand apart from the film

Casting off her Bratty cigarettes and sunglasses, the pop visionary channels the torments of Heathcliff and Cathy and the tumult of the Velvet Underground on her latest captivating pivot

The Guardian - UK

“This guy came up after a gig and said he was a specialist in repetitive strain injuries. He said, ‘What you’re doing is exactly what we tell people not to do’”: Inside the (literally) blistering sound of British alt-rock’s cultest heroes

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Charli xcx releases haunting new Wuthering Heights ballad Chains of Love

Charli xcx has shared the second track from the Wuthering Heights soundtrack.

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Charli xcx: House ft John Cale review – haunt me, then! An elegant, brutal taste of the Wuthering Heights OST

Featuring a lugubrious monologue from the Velvet Underground legend, its jagged strings are more reminiscent of that band than anything on Brat

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Charli xcx goes goth on new song House from Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights soundtrack

Charli xcx has channelled her inner goth on her latest track, House.

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Pop icon moved to tears by collaboration with music legend

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“I sent him some songs… he recorded something and sent it to me. And it was… well, it made me cry”: Charli XCX on how a phrase John Cale once used about the Velvet Underground’s music led to their new Wuthering Heights collaboration

House was released on Monday 10 November

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Charli XCX teases Wuthering Heights track House

Charli XCX has teamed up with The Velvet Underground's John Cale for the new song House, which is to feature on the soundtrack to the much-anticipated Wuthering Heights film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

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Charli XCX teases ‘elegant and brutal’ new Wuthering Heights song with John Cale

The singer announced earlier this year that she was writing an album for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the novel by Emily Bronte.

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The Guardian - UK

The New Eves: The New Eve Is Rising review – imagine if the Velvet Underground scored Midsommar …

Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity

The Independent UK

Ahead of Oasis' tour, a look at famous and brief band reunions: Nirvana, Outkast and more

The Britpop band Oasis will reunite for a 2025 world tour kicking off Friday in Cardiff, Wales

Guitar World

“Iggy left the Stooges and had a career – ditto Lou Reed with the Velvet Underground or Morrissey with the Smiths. Where’s Biafra’s solo career?”: East Bay Ray explains why the Dead Kennedys’ chemistry hit its peak on Fresh Fruit... and why it fell apart

In the year 1980, the Dead Kennedys debut presented a new sound for punk. Here guitarist East Bay Ray tells us how they made Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

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“It’s high and low, it’s poetry meets drugs, it’s earnest meets arrogance”: Which classic album could Charli XCX be talking about?

She namechecks its influence at Variety’s Hitmakers awards

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Charli XCX hails The Velvet Underground's 1967 album 'the apex of fine art'

Charli XCX spoke of how influential The Velvet Underground were during her Hitmaker of The Year acceptance speech.

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"While its accessibility is probably overrated, American Beauty is a great album of dusty melodies laced with earthy poeticism": The Grateful Dead accidentally invent the alt.country movement on American Beauty

Having discovered they could harmonise, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead released what many consider to be their most user-friendly album

The Independent UK

Paul Morrissey death: Cult filmmaker and Andy Warhol collaborator dies at 86

Avant garde filmmaker died in a New York hospital from pneumonia

The Guardian - AU

Paul Morrissey, cult filmmaker and Andy Warhol collaborator, dies at 86

The director of films including Trash, Flesh and Women in Revolt has died in New York after a bout of pneumonia

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Hedi Slimane’s latest Celine collection is an homage to the leading ladies of 1960s France: watch the film

Inspired by listening to The Velvet Underground and Nico while re-reading Françoise Sagan, Hedi Slimane pays ode to legendary French it-girls like Sagan, Françoise Hardy and Juliette Gréco with a collection rooted in the liberatory spirit of the 1960s

The Conversation

Oasis: expert explains the formula for a successful band reunion – and why some crash and burn

The worst-kept secret in the music world is out: Oasis are back. And the only real surprise is that it’s taken so long for it to happen. Since there have been bands, bands have been breaking up. And since bands have been breaking up, bands have been reforming.

The Guardian - UK

‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention

He made rock history with the Velvet Underground and produced landmark albums for the likes of Patti Smith. At 82, his 18th solo outing proves he’s still at the bleeding edge

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