John Cale, the ever-inventive Welsh musician and former member of the Velvet Underground, has announced his first new album of all new material in 10 years, Mercy, out Jan. 20, 2023 via Double ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. “Yup, it’s a love song,” John Cale confirms at the start ...

John Cale didn’t come to popular music from the usual places. His muse was born in the classical avant-garde, and when the young Welsh musician first arrived in New York in the early 1960s, he was ...

John Cale has announced Mercy, his first album in a decade, which will be out January 20 via Double Six / Domino. He made the album with frequent collaborator Nita Scott and it features many ...

John Cale has released the first song from his upcoming album, Mercy. You can watch the video for "Story of Blood," which features indie singer-songwriter Weyes Blood, below. "I'd been listening to ...

John Cale is tasked with talking about his past a lot -- understandably so, considering his legacy both with the Velvet Underground and on his own -- but he has always been pressed firmly on what's ...

Joined by a star-studded cast of Welsh musicians (Gruff Rhys, Cate Le Bon, James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers) who count themselves as his musical offspring, John Cale celebrated his 80th ...

John Cale is releasing a new album, POPtical Illusion, on June 14 via Double Six/Domino. Now he has shared the album’s second single, “Shark-Shark,” via a music video. Abigail Portner directed the ...

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 ...

Here are two widely known facts about John Cale: He was a founding member of the Velvet Underground, and infused the group with its astringent avant-garde sensibility; and he once decapitated a ...

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, ...