Former Velvet Underground member John Cale has been appointed to represent Wales at a major contemporary art exhibition next year.

Times New Viking will plant a sloppy kiss on the Velvet Underground catalog at a Valentine's Day show in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio.The February 14 performance is at the closing party for the Wexner Center for the Arts' Andy Warhol exhibition, "Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms," and it will feature Times New Viking playing a set of V...

The National did a full-on cover of "What Goes On" at New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary Party this past Friday night. Maybe they were inspired by the various forms of "Caroline Says, Pt. II" and other Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse-related materials floating around these days, the fact that both Matt and Lou do a kind of literary sing-sp...

The Courteeners have covered songs by The Velvet Underground and Sugababes for B-sides to their forthcoming single.

A star-studded tribute to Lou Reed at South by Southwest tonight (March 13) culminated with Reed and Moby performing an extended jam of the Velvet Underground man's classic tune 'Walk On The Wild Side'.