I was talking to Lou Reed the other day and he said that the first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years. The sales have picked up in the past few years, but I mean, ...

First of all, while there aren’t many words in your inquiry, the ones that are there are subjective. “Great,” obviously, is ...

Susanna Nicchiarelli was first drawn to that voice. A low alto, lightly accented, dipping in and out of key, it could have been a man's voice; after all, the singer's name was Nico. "I remember being ...

Trine Dyrholm as Christa Päffgen in "Nico, 1988." (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) “I only did three songs with them,” sighs an exasperated Christa Päffgen during one of the many frustrating radio ...

John Cale offers his memories of recording each song on the iconic Velvet Underground debut Everyone’s heard the famous maxim, generally accredited to legendary music producer Brian Eno: while the ...

Between Led Zeppelin’s eight studio albums, a live record, Coda, various concert bootlegs, and the early BBC Sessions, fans of Jimmy Page and the Zep have plenty of material for their listening ...

Nico, best remembered for her brief stint with the Velvet Underground and her association with artist Andy Warhol, is the subject of an upcoming biopic. Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli will ...

The clack of go-go boot heels, the smell of spliffs and dirty martinis, the grit of 1960s New York City: The Velvet Underground’s 1967 album in collaboration with German singer Nico “The Velvet ...

Trine Dyrholm plays German singer and songwriter Nico in Nico, 1988. Director Susanna Nicchiarelli encountered Nico's work the same way most people do: when a friend made her listen to The Velvet ...

“Please don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them,” sings German model-actress-musician Nico on 1967’s Jackson Browne-penned “These Days,” one of her signature post-Velvet ...

Charli XCX received the Hitmaker of the Year Award at Variety‘s eighth annual Hitmakers Brunch last night (12/7), and during her acceptance speech, she chose to point out that the definition of a “hit ...

On September 24, Verve Records will release I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground and Nico. The project is a track-by-track remake of the Lou Reed-fronted transcendent rock outfit’s ...