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Two decades ago, a 49-year-old woman was cycling in the hills of Ibiza when she tumbled off her bike and hit her head on the road.

Performance artist Laurie Anderson will have a special effect up her sleeve Sunday night: an appearance by Lou Reed.

"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love." - Edvard Munch Musee d'art contemporain Opens 'Art and Rock and Roll ...

MONTREAL, Oct. 8 /CNW Telbec/ - The Muse d'art contemporain will be literally electrified this fall by the exhibition Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, which will run from October 10, ...

Charlie Pickett 'Bar Band Americanus' Bloodshot Everybody talks about fairness , but nobody does much about it.

There are the well-known hits: Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, the Stones playing I Can't Get No Satisfaction or the Velvet Underground's I'm Waiting For The Man.

Along the way, she's emerged as an unlikely staple of radio stations that cater to grown-ups and NPR's World Cafe , while others got their first taste of her mesmerizing vocal presence when she covered Hanging ...

"WE ARE NOT a good band for Nebraska," admits Ivan Bierhanzl , contrabassist of Plastic People of the Universe .

Jonathan Richman & Tommy Larkins *** It's been exactly 18 years since this legendary indie-rock singer/songwriter graced Savannah with his inimitable presence, and in that time an awful lot has changed for the ...

The quotable old Greek Aeschylus's pithy epigram, "Wisdom comes alone through suffering," has been a stark warning to me since my girlfriend dumped me in August and sent me scurrying into apartment exile.

When the Pixies toured in 2004 and played five dates at the Aragon Ballroom, I thought at the time that we've seen the last of the great, unlikely reunions, that it was finally time to put a cap on the era and ...

TV Online Warhol show is a multimedia wonderland 'Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms' at Ohio State through Feb.

From Studio 54 to Shirley Temple and the Velvet Underground, a new exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts explores the role of music and dance in Andy Warhol's art.

Imagine my surprise when I encountered this apparently new quality bootleg LP featuring a previously unreleased VU song.

John Cale is curating a tribute to the late singer Nico - who sung with his band, The Velvet Underground .

This week the ghost of Andy Warhol is making the scene in our city. On Tuesday, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts opens the exhibition Warhol Live.

An acetate copy of the original incarnation of the Velvet Underground's debut album turned up on eBay a couple years back, causing a flurry of interest and some ridiculously high bids.

Published: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 1:42 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 1:42 p.m. Bill Dean, entertainment editor of The Gainesville Sun, grew up listening to rock 'n' roll, soul ...

Alejandro Escovedo sets the bar high. When he and his three-man, one-woman band arrived onstage Sunday at The Triple Door, the music playing on the supper club's sound system was country icon George Jones' hit ...

In a core set made entirely of the crucial compositions of the Velvets, he reinterpreted the music; in a mini-set of songs from his old band the Go-Betweens, he displayed the catalog's deep and continuing ...