The Velvet Underground

MATT BERNINGER And ROASANNE CASH Cover THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

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3 March 2026

The National‘s MATT BERNINGER and the late Johnny Cash‘s country star
daughter ROSANNA CASH team up for a cover of The Velvet Underground‘s
1970 pearl WHO LOVES THE SUN.

It’s part of the theme music for the comedy show
Sunny Nights on an Australian streaming service
called Stan.

Berninger says that he got involved through Sunny Nights
director and executive producer Trent O’Donnell:

“I’ve been a Trent O’Donnell fan for a long time. We became good friends
when he cast my brother Tom in an episode of his show No Activity, and
we’ve had a close, creative bond ever since.”

BERNINGER/CASH
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New UNCUT Magazine Issue With Cover Stars THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

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Sixty years ago, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO brought together the worlds
of avant-garde art, European cool and downtown rock’n roll into one explosive package.

Now the survivors share with British glossy music monthly UNCUT tales of drugs, breakdowns, blocked toilets and hospital beds, and of course the creation of some
of the most important music ever made.

“We only did things our way.”

Also features about Kim Gordon, Damon Albarn, Jeff Buckley, Shabaka,
Peter Gabriel, Happy Mondays, Pat Metheny, Robert Finley, The Clash and
many more.

This month’s Free 15-Track CD features some of the month’s best music with
Buck Meek, Cardinals, The Delines, Hen Ogledd, Bill Callahan, Iron & Wine, Altin Gün
and others.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your house. Info HERE.

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Released Their Underrated 4th Album ‘LOADED’ 55 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

16 November 2025

One of the most iconic bands of the 60s/70s, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
released their 4th and final LP, titled LOADED, on 15 November 1970,
55 years ago.

Just before the album’s release, Lou Reed left the band and when guitarist
 Sterling Morrison and drummer Moe Tucker did the same a year later it
was all over, although the band’s then bassist Doug Yule wrote/recorded just
by himself and released, under The Velvet Underground‘s name, the full-length
Squeeze in 1973, regarded as VU’s officially final one.


The final VU line-up

Rolling Stone said: “Although the Velvet Underground are more loose and straightforward than we’ve yet seen them, there is an undercurrent to the album that makes it more than any mere collection of good-time cuts”

Turn Up The Volume: The LP is filled with easy-listening pop songs, with a lot of typical, familiar 60s harmonies à la The Mamas and The Papas and The Beach Boys, sounding like
VU having fun. Despite the LP’s sweet accessibility, it failed to be a hit.

Lou Reed: “I don’t mind a repetitive chorus, I mind a repetitive verse. I mean, it’s the
same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?”

SINGLE

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THURSTON MOORE Covers ‘TEMPTATION INSIDE YOUR HEART’ From THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

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2 September 2025

Former Sonic Youth top dog is a busy man.

Last year THURSTON MOORE (now aged 67) released his 9th solo album,
named Flow Critical Lucidity. Earlier this year, he dropped one-off single
The Serpentine and teamed up with grindcore gang Napalm Death for
a cover of Ramones’ Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.

And now he treats us with a cover of
a song by The Velvet Underground.

Not a really famous one. TEMPTATION INSIDE YOUR HEART
dates back from 1968, but did come out much later, on a VU
compilation from 1985.

It’s a fooling around, riff-rotating VU ripper
spiced with Lou Reed‘s characteristic vocality.

MOORE

VU

23 August 1970 – THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Played Their Final Gig 55 Years Ago Today

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23 August 2025

Andy Warhol‘s brainchild THE VELVET UNDERGROUND played their final gig
on 23 August 1970, today 55 years ago, at New York‘s legendary nightclub
Max’s Kansas City.

By then, original members Nico and John Cale had left.

Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and Mo Tucker were the only founding members left
and were joined by Doug Yule (Cale‘s substitute), and his brother/drummer Billy
Yule who replaced Mo Tucker, for a short time, because she was a young mother
at the time of the band’s last concerts.

Warhol‘s associate Brigid Polk recorded the show (and some previous nights
at the same club too) on a mono portable cassette recorder. These tapes would
lead to an album, named Live At Max’s Kansas City. It was originally released
in 1972 and re-issued in 2016. Have a listen below, sounds like recorded in
a garage. Mind you, a great VU document.

Reed worked as a typist for his father for the next two years, at $40 per week.


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PUZZLED PANTHER – Glam Outfit Covers THE VELVET UNDERGROUND’s ‘VENUS IN FURS’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

30 June 2025

Band: PUZZLED PANTHER
Who: New self-proclaimed “post-punk renai-dance” group, led by
the synergetic songwriting duo of Victoria Espinoza and Kay Bon
Tempo, and featuring YYY’s drummer Brian Chase Eugene Hutz of
Gogol Bordello on guitar.

They release their 2nd EP, named ‘Fits of Serenity’ on July 15.

It’ll feature a glamorous cover of The Velvet Underground‘s
1967 pearl VENUS IN FURS from their banana debut LP.

PUZZLED PANTHER

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