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John Cale on The Velvet Underground & Nico: “Everything was down-tuned and distorted”

Cale takes us track-by-track through the band's debut album

Israel Nash – Lifted

"Hippie spiritual" LP is a thing of wonder

Phosphorescent: “I am usually happy – I’m not a wreck of humanity”

Matthew Houck on Crazy Horse jams, escaping to Mexico and his LP Muchacho

Elephant Micah – Genericana

Joseph O'Connell takes his avant country folk to the water's edge and strips it down

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs

Melbourne firebrands stretch out

Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Dusting down the ur-punk bassist's dishevelled debut

Ian Felice – In The Kingdom Of Dreams

A first-time father enlists fraternal aid 
to voice his anxieties

John Murry – A Short History Of Decay

Grief, divorce and exile inspire more gems of burnt, bruised Americana

Okkervil River – Away

According to Will Sheff, the songs on Away tell a kind of “death story”. Since he wrote them, he presumably knows what he’s talking...

Working with Bob Dylan: “I had to sort the human from the myth”

Re-evaluating Dylan's weirdest and most controversial decade: the Eighties.
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In this piece from the Uncut archives (August 2006, Take 111), ex-Velvets sonic provocateur John Cale talks exclusively about the making of one of the greatest debut albums of all time – from boxing feints and "scarred" violas to their "problem with Nico"... ________________________ SIDE 1 TRAC...

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