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1 day ago · To be sure, it is not shallow; it is steeped in the humid heat, the washes every shade of green and blue, the drenched skies of a Hanoi summer, soundtracked by Tôn-Thất Tiết, Lou Reed, Arab Strap and Velvet Underground. “Tran has created a film that is at once dream and real,” Lawrence Chua wrote in his own review.
3 days ago · The Velvet Underground combined Reed’s gritty, narrative lyricism with Cale’s avant-garde instrumentation, mixing rock, noise, and minimalist compositions. Similar to The Doors (and slightly later, Black Sabbath and also Iggy & The Stooges), their music frequently touched on taboo subjects, which was groundbreaking in the 1960s.
1 day ago · In 2015, in the unofficial biography Notes From The Velvet Underground, biographer Howard Sounes described Reed as having been misogynistic and violent toward women he was in relationships with [155] and racist, having called Donna Summer and Bob Dylan racial [156] and ethnic slurs.
5 days ago · The performance included a multi-screen film by Warhol, music performed by The Velvet Underground, and live dancers.
2 days ago · The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground and the German singer Nico. Released by Verve Records in March 1967, the album underperformed in sales and polarized critics upon release due to its abrasive, unconventional sound and controversial lyrical content.
5 days ago · Lou Reed was The Velvet Underground’s atonal architect, NYC’s poet laureate of the perverse. He was what polite society calls a “complicated man” and the curt simply dismiss as an “asshole.”
5 days ago · We asked Kate to tell us more about Songs from a Thousand Frames of Mind and she made us a list of 10 influences including music (Elephant 6, The Velvet Underground), movies and more
