The Velvet Underground's John Cale: Some Velvet Morning

The Velvet Underground’s John Cale: Some Velvet Morning

John Cale talks about his VU past and future Rather than being a man of rumination after 50 years in
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Essential New Music: The Velvet Underground's "The Velvet Underground"

Essential New Music: The Velvet Underground’s “The Velvet Underground”

Save for the rarity of its “lost” 1969 sessions, another repackaging of Lou Reed and John Cale’s now-canonical, dry-icy, holy-terror
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Essential New Music: Grant-Lee Phillips' "Widdershins"

Essential New Music: Grant-Lee Phillips’ “Widdershins”

Grant-Lee Phillips has now been making solo records for far longer than he served as the celebrated frontman of ’90s-era
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Jack White: Schoolhouse Rock

Jack White: Schoolhouse Rock

Boarding House Reach not only shows off Jack White’s master’s-level skills as a musician but also lyrics that will make
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Essential New Music: Jack White's "Boarding House Reach"

Essential New Music: Jack White’s “Boarding House Reach”

Of the many would-be millennial “rock ’n’ roll saviors” kicking around in the early aughts, Jack White has done the
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Essential New Music: Mary Gauthier's "Rifles & Rosary Beads"

Essential New Music: Mary Gauthier’s “Rifles & Rosary Beads”

Where have all the soldiers gone? American battles once pitted brother against brother and accentuated the gap between parents and
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Essential New Music: Keiji Haino + SUMAC's "American Dollar Bill—Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On"

Essential New Music: Keiji Haino + SUMAC’s “American Dollar Bill—Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On”

It had to happen. Keiji Haino has played with folk musicians and Faust, Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet and Merzbow. Sooner
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