John Cale

Duane Pitre Extras: He Would Like to Borrow Your Mitch Hedberg Bootlegs

In August, we conducted two interviews with New Orleans-based experimental composer Duane Pitre. These conversations yielded way, way more than could plausibly fit into the print story. Below is the full text, with Pitre holding forth on his creative process, the thinking behind new album Bridges, t ... More >>

Duane Pitre Gift Wraps His Compositions With a Bow on Top

Drowners and Sweet Baboo: Epic Pop From the Suspiciously Welsh

Contrary to what some poor, misguided souls might have lead you to believe, it's not all hilarity and high jinks being a music hack. Endless deadlines, over zealous PR people, petulant musicians, and the daily grind of trying to summon up a vague resemblance of enthusiasm for the endless barrage of ... More >>

One Night Only: The Velvet Underground Pay Tribute to Nico and Allen Ginsberg

Tonight, fans of the Velvet Underground will get to see their idols pay tribute to two of their most revered friends and collaborators--just not on the same stage. At Housing Works, Lou Reed will be celebrating the vinyl and digital re-issue of Allen Ginsberg's FIRST BLUES. Across the East River, Jo ... More >>

FEMME FATALE

John Cale pays tribute to Nico

Tracing "Hallelujah" From Obscurity To Ubiquity

Back in September of 2010, noted music journalist (and former editor-in-chief of SPIN and Vibe magazines) Alan Light was among 4,000 people sitting in the Jacob Javitz Center for Yom Kippur services when the Congregation Beit Simchat Torah choir took the stage to conclude the solemn proceedings with ... More >>

How Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' Went From Obscurity to Ubiquity

Cold, broken, and holy

Frank Ocean Is Boring: The Year Lifeless Music Found Critical Praise

In 2012, nothing was as popular as being massively boring. Frank Ocean drained the sexiness and excitement out of r&b, to widespread critical acclaim. Lana Del Rey sighed listlessly over string arrangements in a tight dress, like some kind of Kristen Wiig character who stumbled out of the Holodeck a ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Neil Young, John Cale, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Lead the Fogeycore Invasion

The lures and snare of following Rock Gods

Holiday Guide: Arts Listings

A Burning Hot Summer

The Black Angels: Reed Scholars

The Black Angels take time off from planning their festival to play ours

Watch: Baths Covers LCD Soundsystem, Joins Tradition of "All My Friends" Reinterpretations

Baths cover LCD Soundsystem Let's face it: "All My Friends" is a nearly flawless song that could stand alone as the best track from LCD Soundsystem's three studio albums. That fact, however, has not stopped about a thousand different cover versions from hitting the internet, from professionals and ... More >>

The Downward Spiral of TVT Records

How the ambitious NYC indie nearly brought artists from Ambulance LTD to Lil Jon down with it

Download: Arp, "From A Balcony Overlooking The Sea" (SOTC Premiere)

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Sean McFarland​As New York's increasingly chill/dark waves of synths grow colder and more insular, our own Alexis Georgopoulos, a.k.a. one-man bliss machine Arp, holds tight to the Düsseldorf dream ... More >>

Moe Tucker: Young Artists Can't Afford New York Today

​Three surviving members of the Velvet Underground -- Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, and latecomer Doug Yule (Sterling Morrison is deceased; John Cale just absent) -- did Q&A at the New York Public Library on Tuesday, and someone in the back took some crappy video, which NME reproduces today. It's al ... More >>

The Velvet Underground Reunion That Probably Won't Happen But Still (!)

​On December 8th, former Velvets Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule will find themselves sitting in the same room at the New York Public Library as part of an event promoting The Velvet Underground: New York Art, an omnibus VU retro out now on Rizzoli. David Fricke will be on hand to inte ... More >>

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 (Featuring U2, The Boss, The Black Eyed Peas, And Some Dude Named Mick)

Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's benefit-concert extravaganza ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Michael Kors, Anna Sui, Pamella Roland, Max Azria, Betsey Johnson

​ From the Betsey Johnson collection. Photo by David Wentworth. When Michael Kors tires of crafting pastel Barbarella dresses, he can sell designer migranes. I had one watching his Wednesday exhibition at Bryant Park -- not just because his pastel gowns caught the harsh glare of the revolvin ... More >>

Live: Ida Maria Play Betsey Johnson's Plaza Hotel Fashion Week Party

All photos by David Wentworth.​Ida Maria Betsey Johnson Spring 2010 Fashion Week Party Plaza Hotel September 15 As Betsey Johnson showers her with kisses - on one cheek, on the other, on the forehead, smack, smack, smack - the Norwegian synaesthetic Ida Maria smirks and adjusts her brilliantl ... More >>

A Tourist's Guide to ZE Records

Celebrating 30 years of wanton, possibly mutated NYC noise

Waiting For The Band: Andy Warhol's Moe Gets Tied Up is No Cocksucker Blues

Hugs and Kisses 66: Q&A With Herman Dune's David-Ivar

Ed Lachman, Chameleon, at BAM

Plus: Peter Hutton at MOMA

Rookies of the Year

Tyshawn Sorey's provocations lead a pack of notable 2007 debuts

James Murphy & Pat Mahoney's Fabriclive 36

Ethereal, euphoric disco from a restless muse

No Context: Tony Conrad at Performa

Talk to Me, Lou

Lou Reed hangs a photo show, and other tales of Fashion Week

No Context by Zach Baron: 'Close Radio'

Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Summer's Best Singles

Welsh And French Interlopers Turn Vintage American Pop Into Fast Food

Texan Troubadour Turns Near-Death Into New Life

Apocalypse Then

Patti Smith revives Horses on stage and disc to honor its 30th anniversary

Lonely Heart: Philippe Garrel

Film

Competing With Life

Annual clusterfuck pulls in hordes except when it doesn't

Your Guide to CMJ 2004

My Generation

Breaking the sound barrier: A director's take on movies, music, adolescence, and politics

The Sun Also Rises

Linklater's romantic nine-years-later sequel shines through a cloudy Berlin Film Festival

Weapons of Mass Consumption

Loud-Blowing Free Jazz Gives in to Subtle String Pleasures

Simple Things First

New Discs From Out West by Peter Garland and Terry Riley

Crash Into Me

Waiting for Twilight

Manic Regression

Grandpa’s Hands

Room and Bored

Lost Treasures

The Theatre of Eternal Music

Growing Pains and Shrinking Fortunes

A French Connection

Indie Production, Gallic Style