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The best new music to look forward to in 2023

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

The Guardian - UK

Weyes Blood: ‘That I ended up making beautiful, feminine music is a surprise’

The US musician’s Titanic Rising saw her hailed as the ‘millennial Joni Mitchell’. She talks about her new album examining our turbulent times

The Guardian - UK

The outsider’s outsider: John Cale by Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys and James Dean Bradfield

Before they take to the stage with Cale for his 80th birthday concert, the three reflect on how Wales’s greatest living musician subverted what it means to be a Welsh musician

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Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song review – a thorough, respectful documentary

Contributions from John Cale, Judy Collins and more illuminate the singer-songwriter’s art through his best-known song

The Guardian - UK

Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 review – revelatory early cuts

The 23-year-old Reed and John Cale try things out for size in this treasure trove of previously unreleased demos

The Guardian - UK

Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed’s lost demo tape: ‘He really wasn’t that interested in his past’

While sorting through her husband’s belongings, Anderson found a remarkable recording from 1965 that reveals the influence of Dylan, the seeds of the Velvet Underground – and a surprising sense of humour

The Guardian - UK

Leonard Cohen documentary Hallelujah explores the creation and cultural impact of the iconic song

Hallelujah, the song that launched a thousand covers — by musicians such as John Cale, Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright — is the focus of this new documentary.

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‘More than a song’: the enduring power of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

In a new documentary, fans and experts explore the legacy of a song that was originally shunned before becoming a timeless classic

The Guardian - US

Lou Reed’s earliest Velvet Underground demos unearthed for reissue

Recordings from May 1965 were sealed for nearly 50 years, and reveal folk-like renditions of songs including I’m Waiting for the Man and Heroin

The Guardian - UK

‘They didn’t go round the corner for beer’: Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs for Drella

After years of estrangement, the two Velvet Underground musicians decided to make a record and filmed concert about their mentor Andy Warhol. Director Ed Lachman talks about how he captured the pair in action

The Guardian - UK

Songs for Drella review – Lou Reed and John Cale’s moving journey into Warhol

The filmed 1990 reunion of Reed and Cale performing their spiky album testament to Warhol was thought lost

The Guardian - UK

The Velvet Underground founding member John Cale to play in Whitley Bay for Mouth of Tyne Festival

The star will be coming to North Tyneside this summer - here are details on how to get tickets for his show, which will be on sale from next week

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Screaming Trees drummer leads tributes to bandmate and ‘big brother’ Mark Lanegan

Members of the rock community including Iggy Pop, Peter Hook and John Cale were among those to remember Lanegan and his ‘wild life.’

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