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Critical Essay by Ellen Willis
The Velvets were the first important rock-and-roll artists who had no real chance of attracting a mass audience. This was paradoxical. Rock and roll was a mass art, whos...
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Critical Essay by Roy Trakin
[The Velvet Underground] made four harrowing albums that exposed the seamy underbelly of the late '60s counterculture's acid-soaked dreams of peace and love....
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Critical Essay by Robert A. Hull
The history of the Velvet Underground is so incidental that it almost doesn't matter. That is the first clue to the band's immortality, the very idea tha...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Willis
