“Gold Digger” and “Good Life.” Mike Bloomfield: Included on Rolling Stone’s list of all-time greatest guitarists, the North Sider cut his teeth in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band but then formed his own group, Electric Flag, and worked in the ’70s with...

This recording quality isn’t the best – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF4wdd3xqV8 – but it gives you a sense of it (album recording is better). Seems like everyone and his brother is doing coves of Hallelujah these days. My favorite of those is by...

Yet Chelsea Hotel is much more than a song cycle. It’s something in between, I guess. Conceived and directed by Tracey Power Leonard Cohen is an artistic well that other artists have returned to repeatedly, creating cover versions and much, much more. ...

Imagine vintage Elvis Costello and the Attractions mixing it up with the Velvet Underground's John Cale and the Byrds' Roger McGuinn — then add orchestral breadth, ferocious inventiveness and a willingness to push daring arrangements to a breaking...

The band did not file for trademark protection when the image was released. The Velvet Underground, known best as Lou Reed, John Cale, Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison, stated in their complaint that: “The Banana design became a symbol, truly an...

Their compelling drone improvisations were decidedly different and, to my ears, more unsettling than the other avant-garde sounds of the era coming from the New York City axis of Tony Conrad, John Cale, and La Monte Young. In the book Japrocksampler,...