Around the same time, I started spinning my father’s copy of “The Velvet Underground & Nico,” a 1967 recording with the iconic banana cover designed ... first Velvets album, but all 30,000 ...

The 60s was also an era when album covers were becoming more defiant and raunchier. The cover for The Velvet Underground And Nico featured a bright yellow banana print from Warhol, contrasted ...

It’s as egregious as desecrating the album cover or tampering with the track order ... the album’s sonic character or aesthetic and may well endure a quick ‘skip’ whenever it finally arrives. The ...

A decade before punk was even a thing, ‘White Light/White Heat’ found The Velvet Underground light-years ... pathologically uncompromising second album, White Light/White Heat.

Album covers can sometimes make or break the appeal of an album. These five super-cool album covers from the 1990s only made the music within their sleeves even better. Let’s take a look at just ...

Charli echoed her love of Lou Reed again last December, when she named the 1967 album ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ as “the apex of fine art” during speech at Variety’s Hitmakers Awards.

This meant Bentley’s rare interview with Morrison was an early piece of Velvet Underground canonization ... the fourth and final Velvets album they’d released a year earlier.

An album cover is more than just packaging in the modern music industry; it’s a representation of the artist’s personality. A well-crafted cover captivates listeners, tells a tale, and entices ...

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Tamara Saviano, who produced a new album by folk and country singer Guy Clark based on long-lost recordings.