Posts Tagged ‘velvet underground’

new music // SMILE : “I’m Still Waiting For My Man”

new music // SMILE : "I'm Still Waiting For My Man"

This appropriately jangly and messy and beautiful tribute to the late Lou Reed‘s Velvet Underground is brought to us by SMILE, not to be confused with Smile . . . SMILE // I’m Still Waiting For My Man :


coming soon // The Feelies : "Here Before"

coming soon // The Feelies : "Here Before"

Peter’s liked The Feelies for nearly two decades—after checking out one of their albums from the Wheaton, IL library based on the recommendations of a friend who said they sounded like the Velvet Undergound (took me a while to “get” the similarities.)  Periodically, Peter needs a Feelies fix, which happened just recently, so he busts […]


live video // Crystal Stilts : "Flying Into the Sun"

live video // Crystal Stilts : "Flying Into the Sun"

Crystal Stilts were all like, “hey let’s dress up like Velvet Underground circa 1960-something-or-other and then play some music that sounds like Joy Division circa Warsaw-era and then let’s throw them a left hook by breaking out into this face-melting-reverbed-harmonica-mind-jam that sounds like Clinic ate a Roxy Music album and then spewed it out their […]


25 favorite albums

These are albums I love listening to from beginning to end and have a magical appeal no matter the time, place or mood. These are not necessarily the albums I respect the most. In other words: this is a list of what I consider to be my favorite albums—but not, in all cases, what I […]