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Kali Malone, William Basinski, Stephen O’Malley, and six more experimental music titans played Pioneer Works in the space of 30 hours last week.

Before they became synonymous with downtown cool, the Velvet Underground played a multiband bill at a suburban New Jersey high school in 1965. Parents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the “scr...

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Parents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the “screeching urge of sound” from Lou Reed and his bandmates, a local reviewer wrote, and retreated in horror after their second song, “Heroin.” The Velvet Underground soon found a more appreciative audience when artist Andy Warhol spotted them and set them up at the Factory, his Manhattan studio-and-happening space. Veteran journalist and author Dylan Jones tells that unusual story in “Loaded: The Life (and Af...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Before they became synonymous with downtown cool, the Velvet Underground played a multi-band bill at a suburban New Jersey high school in 1965. Parents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the “screeching urge of sound” from Lou Reed and his bandmates, a local reviewer wrote, and retreated in

Happy Mondays were one of the architects of the Manchester scene that gave birth to Oasis. Armed with basic gear, most of which he can’t remember, their genre-splicing guitarist is finally proud of th

Amid the chaos and confusion of the past 12 months, critics Mark Beaumont, Helen Brown, Annabel Nugent and Roisin O’Connor found plenty of comfort and solace in the year’s musical offerings

The founding French-born guitarist had a punkier attitude to his playing that jarred with Summers, but he remained friends with at least two members of the band – and may have even inspired their late

Nu-metal icon is in his avant-garde era — and feeling "gratitude" for it all