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Less would become more. Songs such as ‘Cable Hogue’, ‘I Keep a Close Watch’, ‘Guts’, ‘You Know More Than I Know’ and his ...
Founding member of the Velvet Underground, John Cale, appeared on the new Netflix variety show, Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney. During the musician’s appearance on the program, he ...
It’s a good show, and in the latest episode, The Velvet Underground legend John Cale was paired up with arena headliner Maggie Rogers to sing “Shark-Shark,” a fun song from his 2024 album ...
Forty-five years later, John Cale’s POPtical illusion tour ... Villa Albani, from his 1984 album Caribbean Sunset, is completely immersive, so swampy and bluesy that it morphs into a heady ...
Even after turning 83 earlier this month, Welsh-born rocker John Cale showed no signs of relaxing his high-art principles in a rare London appearance at the Royal Festival Hall. From a background in ...
With his third solo effort, perpetually underrated avant-garde pioneer John Cale managed at ... Starts Here,” on which Cale draws artistic inspiration from Gloria Swanson’s iconic performance in ...
Los Angeles, March 1972. A happy John Cale in the run-up to the release of ‘The Academy in Peril’© Ed Thrasher 1978 Slow Dazzle was reviewed by NME in May 1975. The album, it was declared, “proves ...
“Davies and Wales is such a perfect example of the kind of things that only John Cale can do all at once: upbeat, melancholic, happy, shapeshifting, nostalgic, modern, beautiful heartache,” re ...
You never know what to expect from a new John Cale record, whether it be avant-garde experimentation, a reinterpretation of an older release, or simply dirty ass rock ‘n’ roll. Now ...
Designed by Malone, New York-born artist, and musician Bjorn Copeland, the cover of John Cale‘s 18th album POPtical Illusion is a motley collage snapshotting a clear blue sea, camera lens ...
“Venus in Furs” is the artistic apex of the VU’s debut—the moment where John Cale’s influences from European classical composers and bleeding edge American avant-gardists seamlessly ...
John Cale was born in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales in March 1942. He joined the National Youth Orchestra of Wales at age 13 and went on to study music at Goldsmiths College, University of London.