It wasn't that popular and it's pretty polarizing.

The Velvet Underground sounded like nothing else that came out in 1967. It's easy to hear why: Unlike so many other classic albums that came out that year, the Velvet Underground's debut felt like ...

Lou Reed wanted to be a star in 1970. It wasn't always this way. On the first three albums he made with the Velvet Underground, he was contentious, abrasive and as far from the mainstream as an artist ...

The album became a success decades after its release.

Filmmaker Todd Haynes, whose 1998 film Velvet Goldmine was loosely based on the ’70s glam rock world Bowie and Lou Reed, will now focus his eye on Reed’s group The Velvet Underground for a new ...

Timeline of ‘The Velvet Underground: New York Extravaganza,’ installation view (all photos by and © William Beaucardet, courtesy Philharmonie de Paris, unless ...

Jeremy has more than 2500 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

More than a half century after the Velvet Underground’s obscure rise and spectacular implosion, one of the most storied American bands of the nineteen-sixties finally has a proper documentary.

On a recent night, I was driving down Broadway when, a few blocks below Fourteenth Street, I spotted a large, showy sign above one of the storefronts. Though I’d never noticed it before, the outsized ...