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  • The Velvet Underground Experience NYC (Oct. 10 through Dec. 31)

    September 21, 2018

    Bandsintown and Citi® are co-presenting The Velvet Underground Experience, an immersive art & music exhibition, opening in New York City on Oct 10, through Dec 31. The exhibition spotlights the iconic band’s early NYC roots and major influence on music, fashion, art, and pop culture from the 60’s through today. Peel back further — with thousands of rare photos and […]

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  • VELVET UNDERGROUND’S 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED WITH CAREER-SPANNING VINYL BOX SET

    February 8, 2018

    COLLECTION INCLUDES DEFINITIVE STEREO EDITIONS OF SIX CLASSIC ALBUMS INCLUDING ALL FOUR STUDIO RECORDS, THE “LOST” 1969 ALBUM AND NICO’S DEBUT LP   Los Angeles – December 20, 2017 – To celebrate the Velvet Underground’s 50th anniversary, Verve Records/UMe is releasing The Velvet Underground, a limited-edition career-spanning box that collects all four of the pioneering band’s studio albums, Velvets collaborator […]

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  • THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO’S 50th ANNIVERSARY LPs

    June 14, 2017

    THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO‘S 50th ANNIVERSARY   UMe celebrates 50th anniversary of the classic debut LP with vinyl reissue including a limited-edition colored-vinyl special edition, out on June 30 On November 16-18 John Cale celebrates the Velvets’ 50th anniversary by curating three nights of special performances in New York   “I wanted to cross-pollinate rock with the avant-garde, and […]

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  • John Cale Celebrates The Velvet Underground & Nico’s 50th Anniversary in New York

    May 26, 2017

    The inveterate experimentalist who melded rock with the avant-garde, John Cale (Paris 1919 and A Tribute to Nico, 2012 Next Wave) has exerted an incalculable influence on the last half-century of popular music, from punk to noise to chamber pop. He returns to BAM for a three-night celebration of his life and art. For the first two nights, Cale is […]

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  • The Velvet Underground & Nico at 50: John Cale goes track by track through the debut that changed music

    April 6, 2017

    John Cale offers his memories of recording each song on the iconic Velvet Underground debut. Read the full story on People.com.

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  • Watch the “Sunday Morning” animated video for The Velvet Underground & Nico album’s 50th anniversary

    March 12, 2017

    Sunday morning Praise the dawning It’s just a restless feeling By my side Watch the animated video for “Sunday Morning” here:

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  • John Cale Announces 50th Anniversary Celebration of The Velvet Underground & Nico

    October 24, 2016

    Only European show 26th May 2017 at Liverpool’s iconic docklands Global music legend John Cale has announced Liverpool as his only European show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary The Velvet Underground & Nico album. Already doyens of New York’s burgeoning art rock scene, the first Velvet Underground album in 1967 represented the zenith of the movement and […]

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  • The Complete Matrix Tapes To Be Released November 20th

    September 30, 2015

    The Velvet Underground toured extensively in 1969, but set up shop in San Francisco in November and early December for a series of 18 nights over four separate engagements, the first at the Family Dog, the rest at the fabled North Beach club the Matrix, opened in a one-time pizza parlor by Jefferson Airplane’s Marty Balin in 1965. Over the […]

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  • ‘The Velvet Underground’ 45th Anniversary Edition, Available November 24

    October 1, 2014

      The 64-track six-CD package on Polydor/UMe includes legendary 1969 album, featuring several different mixes, live recordings from The Matrix in San Francisco, case-bound book and liner notes by David Fricke Pre-Order Now Available! Super Deluxe http://smarturl.it/VU45thSuperDeluxe Deluxe http://smarturl.it/VU45thDeluxe Standard  http://smarturl.it/VelvetUnderground45 iTunes http://smarturl.it/TVU45thiTunes  Google Play http://smarturl.it/TVU45thGoogle The Velvet Underground’s classic self-titled third album, released in March 1969, by MGM, was a departure […]

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  • Celebrate the 45th Anniversary of The Velvet Underground & Nico on October 29, 2012

    October 22, 2012

    When The Velvet Underground & Nico album was released in March 1967 on Verve Records, with its Andy Warhol-designed, peel-off banana cover, it was far from a chart-topper. In fact, as the famed quote attributed to Brian Eno famously put it, the album may not have sold many copies, “but everyone who bought it formed a band.” And its reputation […]

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The Booker T. - Limited Edition 7” Flexi Single represents the first ever official appearance of this rare track on vinyl! Pulled from John Cale’s personal copy of the Velvet Underground’s show at The Gymnasium in New York recorded on April 30, 1967, "Booker T." (drily named, with love, after the famed Stax organist) is a proto-punk blues highlight from the show.
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1966-1967 timeline map tour
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