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 ...
The post John Cale Announces Reissues of Paris 1919 and The Academy in Peril appeared first on Consequence. “Revisiting work from the past is a double-edged sword for me. Of course, it’s bound to ...
John Cale is back with a new single, the sultry, groovy “Night Crawling.” The song has Cale recalling his friendship in the early-’70s with David Bowie, and is the first taste of what sounds like a ...
The last time I saw John Cale, a significant percentage of the audience missed one of his best numbers. Before Cale and his band came on stage, the house music faded down and was replaced by a single ...
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, after a decade ...
It’s hard to convey how much the music of John Cale means to me. The Welsh-born polymath cofounded the Velvet Underground, bringing a crucial avant-garde perspective to the band; he’d worked with ...
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’s career came full circle Sunday at a sold-out Rubloff Auditorium at the Art Institute of Chicago. In a rare local appearance, the iconic experimental musician staged a 125-minute concert to ...
Lou Reed, who died on October 27 at age 71, has received a graceful statement of tribute from former Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale. The Welsh singer and songwriter already joined David Bowie, ...
John Cale rarely leaves our thoughts, if truth be told. But in recent months he’s been a little more present than usual. The reason? He’s playing London’s Field Day festival on August 6, performing ...
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 ...
The two musicians co-founded The Velvet Underground in 1965. By THR Staff John Cale, who co-founded The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed in 1965, has commented on the death of his bandmate. In a ...