The Latest Breaking News from John Cale

The Velvet Underground co-founder returns with Mercy, a new solo album featuring Weyes Blood, Actress and Animal Collective – and Cale's typically restless search for new sounds

With a legendary musical career that spans decades, John Cale is still restlessly creating and collaborating on new music.

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Pickwick Records specialized in elevator music and clearance-rack recordings major labels wanted to rid themselves of. One of its releases, however, was not like the others… and featured Lou Reed

Disgusted with Britain’s ‘cruel’ aristocracy, Michael Zilkha left to champion a generation of party-starting punk-funk bands. As he returns as a book publisher, he remembers that wild scene

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But Tom Verlaine wasn’t impressed

The 80-year-old’s latest album features some inspired younger guests but cries out for less dated beats and a visionary producer

The veteran composer and performer is back after a decade and showing no signs of slowing down

As he hits 80 and releases a softly raging album inspired by the ugliness of the pandemic years, the ever restless and eternally avant-garde musician unburdens himself

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Lukas Graham, the Showtime series “Your Honor” starring Bryan Cranston returns for its second and final season, and “Hellbound” director Yeon Sang-Ho unveils his new sci-fi action pic, the dystopian “Jung_E,” where Earth has become uninhabitable and war is about to…

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