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 The Velvet Underground was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1970 (& 1970 to 1973 in a different incarnation). Its best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale. Although never commercially successful whilst together, the Velvet... 
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 The Independent - London Velvet underground
12/14/2007: 1,636 words, approx. 6 pages Lynne Tillman has inspired the Manhattan avant-garde since fishmongers worked on South Street and the World Trade Center was new. JOHN FREEMAN meets her Three decades ago, Lynne Tillman lived in a one-room flat at the tip of Manhattan which cost less per... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Underground With A Touch Of Velvet
07/10/2003: 572 words, approx. 2 pages Is more better? The members of the Portland, Ore.-based bands the Icebreak and Slower Than found that to be the case when they began jamming together. In 1999 the bands reorganized as the Swords Project. "We've all known each other for years,"... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Tuesday: A Good Book, A Weird Series, A Bad Map, and Vultures
8/8/2006: 281 words, approx. 1 pagesA 'New York Apartment Story' AM New York, everyone's favorite daily, breaks through with a week-long "interactive housing feature." Ever wondered about the "borough identity" of Marble Hill residents? Or the proverbial "1,000-square-foot carpet made of $100 bills"? It's your lucky week. AM will... summary from source:
AP News `Dukes of Hazzard' car buyer doesn't pay
5/10/2007: 407 words, approx. 1 pagesA nearly $10 million eBay bid for a car made famous by "The Dukes of Hazzard" seems to have vanished faster than the Duke boys escaping from the sheriff.The General Lee's owner _ actor John Schneider, who played the blond heartthrob Bo Duke in the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Ellen Willis
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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, whose direct, immediate appeal to basic emotions subverted class and educational distinctions and whose formal canons all embodied the perception that mass art was not only possible but satisfying in new and liberating ways. Insofar as it incorporates the elite, formalist values of the avant garde, the very idea of rock-and-roll art rests on a c... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert A. Hull
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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 that their story is so offhand that it cannot eclipse the total impact of their music. The second clue is this: the very inadvertency of their actions is the best definition of the band's meaning. It's as if the Velvets' lack of foresight had, in some way, to be compensated for by an abundance of critical hindsight. There is ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Roy Trakin
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[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. Songs like Heroin, Venus in Furs, Femme Fatale, I'm Waiting for the Man and White Light/White Heat, all of which left little to the imagination in their lurid detail, but still managed to seek redemption for man even in his squalor and pain…. Rock 'n' Roll Diary takes you from Waiting for the Man through Street...
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