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Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2019
New LaunchLeft podcast! 🎶 IAN SVENONIUS launches CRUSH, featuring Cole Alexander and Zumi Rosow of the Black Lips ⚡️ The duo discusses their debut vinyl + cassette release. 🎧 Stream it today or watch on LaunchLeft’s YouTube: youtu.be/79RwoCuNoHI?is=CiAf…
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Musician John Cale, founding member of the Velvet Underground, met musician Lou Reed and began working with him in 1965. They formed a band called the Primitives and then the Falling Spikes. When Sterling Morrison and drummer Angus MacLise joined them they formed the Warlocks, which later became the Velvet Underground. MacLise later quit the band and was replaced with Maureen Tucker. Andy Warhol attended the Velvets' first concert and became their manager throughout 1966 and 1967. He added Nico to the group, produced their first album, "The Velvet Underground and Nico" in 1967, and booked concerts for them in many cities around the US. In 1968 Cale left the group to embark on a solo career. He also produced many albums for a range of musicians and created music tracks for movies including "Heat" (1972), a Warhol/Morrissey film. This "Screen Test" of Cale from 1966 includes zooming in and out and cuts to shots with the camera tilted left and right. Browse more works from our collections: bit.ly/3S6Al9n Andy Warhol, "John Cale" [ST43], 1966, 16mm film, black-and-white, silent, 4.2 minutes at 16 frames per second, © The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
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My Bloody Valentine rank as the 43rd best band of all time.
The 100 Best Bands of All Time Over the last two years, CONSEQUENCE has surveyed more than 200 artists and musicians to rank the greatest individual performers in modern music history, from vocalists and guitarists to bassists and drummers. Now, we've enlisted more than 70 artists, including 16 Grammy winners and multiple Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, to help us tackle our biggest ranking yet: The 100 Best Bands of All Time. consequence.net/list/the-100…
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It's a friday once again! ❤️
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People say their phones are bugged…” ././././././././././././ A rare glimpse into a phone call between John Lennon and journalist Howard Smith, featured in the award-winning documentary ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO. Experience the film alongside the newly restored, re-edited and remixed POWER TO THE PEOPLE concert film on the new Blu-Ray editions. Pre-order now at johnlennon.com!
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Happy birthday to Lux Interior! 🎂🎈#Cramps
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Remembering the incredible Elliott Smith, who passed away on this day in 2003. ❤️🕊️ . Link in bio 🔗
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David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ opened nationwide in theaters 25 years ago.
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“Classic Blondie” return with new album ‘High Noon’ featuring Johnny Marr, Glen Matlock and more and energetic single ‘Spectral Eyes’ “This album is an amalgamation of all our different influences and eras into something new” nme.com/news/music/classic-b…
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‘I Don’t Think Anybody Can Be Prepared to Listen to the Shaggs’: See New Doc Trailer 'We Are the Shaggs' looks at a discordant sister group's story and its surprising impact. 🔗 rollingstone.com/music/music…
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It's a friday once again! ❤️
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“Watching the Wheels” - John Lennon (1980)
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Happy Birthday PJ Harvey
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47 years ago (GI) is the debut and only studio album by the American punk rock band the Germs, produced by Joan Jett and released in October 1979. Cover photos by Melanie Nissen #punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #germs #history #punkrockhistory
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David Lynch on the cover of TIME Magazine. October 1 1990.
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New @launchleft podcast ep. | MELISSA AUF DER MAUR launches Petra Szilagyi ⚡️ Melissa, guest host of this ep., launches interdisciplinary sculptor Petra Szilagyi @auntiebotox to discuss their interactive prayer space work and the Apocalypse Anonymous project. #MelissaAufDerMaur
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REM for America's libraries. American Library Association, Disney Adventures Magazine, 1993.
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Good Morning. Happy National Coffee Day.
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28 years ago today, “Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star” was released.
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Eraserhead premiered 49 years ago today. 28 September 1977 🏭
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