It’s easy to take the Velvet Underground for granted. Nearly four decades have passed since Brian Eno guesstimated that “Everyone who bought one of those [first] 30,000 copies [of the Velvets’ debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico] started a band,” and that maxim has been repeated so many times …
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Kurt Vile first covered the Velvet Underground‘s “Run Run Run” when he was 18 at a show in Landsdowne, Pennsylvania — complete with “take a drag or two” subbed out for the local crowd-pleasing “Landsdowne Avenue.” He then performed it with the Velvets’ John Cale in 2017 in honor of …
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Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen have teamed up for a new song, “Like I Used To.” The single was produced by John Congleton, who has worked with both Etten and Olsen in the past, and was released on Thursday with a music video directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch and filmed …
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Sharon Van Etten and Josh Homme have shared the home-shot new video for their recent Nick Lowe cover “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?” The video, “directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin via iMessage + telephone,” finds the two artists singing the Elvis Costello-popularized hit from their respective home …
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