The Velvet Underground and Nico was a seminal album released in 1967. Even before the Summer of Love got going, VU took a darker approach to modern alternative culture with music that pioneered experimental rock.
We look back to the velvet side of the Velvet Underground and their debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, which was released 50 years ago on March 12, 1967.
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, 1975’s Ommadawn. Like Tubular Bells it was two, side-long journeys, this time into a sound that was pastoral, Celtic and African.
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In the Echoes Podcast, Mike Oldfield takes us inside two of his epic works, 1975’s Ommadawn and 2017’s Return to Ommadawn. Tragedy and nostalgia beset both of these wonderful works.
The neo-psychedelic create a hallucinogenic animated video for the song, Lost in Light.
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, 1975’s Ommadawn. Like Tubular Bells it was two, side-long journeys, this time into a sound that was pastoral, Celtic and African.
New music by the French cover band, Nouvelle Vague from their album I Could Be Happy and violin rock band Chances End cover a Jefferson Airplane song.
Fusion giant Larry Coryell died on February 19, after playing his final gig at Iridium i New York City. John Diliberto remembers this important and influential musician.
It’s a trip into The Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow. It was 50 years ago that the San Francisco psychedelic band released their signature second album with hits like “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.”
New music from Bonobo’s “Migrations” and The Flaming Lips with Miley Cyrus.