John Cale didn’t come to popular music from the usual places. His muse was born in the classical avant-garde, and when the young Welsh musician first arrived in New York in the early 1960s, he was ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. “Yup, it’s a love song,” John Cale confirms at the start ...

Designed by Malone, New York-born artist, and musician Bjorn Copeland, the cover of John Cale‘s 18th album POPtical Illusion is a motley collage snapshotting a clear blue sea, camera lens, ...

Joined by a star-studded cast of Welsh musicians (Gruff Rhys, Cate Le Bon, James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers) who count themselves as his musical offspring, John Cale celebrated his 80th ...

The post John Cale Announces New Album POPtical Illusion, Shares New Song “How We See the Light”: Stream appeared first on Consequence. John Cale has announced his 18th studio album, POPtical Illusion ...

John Cale is releasing a new album, POPtical Illusion, on June 14 via Double Six/Domino. Now he has shared the album’s second single, “Shark-Shark,” via a music video. Abigail Portner directed the ...

John Cale has released the first song from his upcoming album, Mercy. You can watch the video for "Story of Blood," which features indie singer-songwriter Weyes Blood, below. "I'd been listening to ...

John Cale is tasked with talking about his past a lot -- understandably so, considering his legacy both with the Velvet Underground and on his own -- but he has always been pressed firmly on what's ...

Here are two widely known facts about John Cale: He was a founding member of the Velvet Underground, and infused the group with its astringent avant-garde sensibility; and he once decapitated a ...

It’s hard to convey how much the music of John Cale means to me. The Welsh-born polymath cofounded the Velvet Underground, bringing a crucial avant-garde perspective to the band; he’d worked with ...

Charli xcx attends the world premiere of "Erupcja" in September. She is making new music for "Wuthering Heights." File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI Nov. 10 (UPI) --Former Velvet Underground musician John ...

On this week's All Songs Considered the former founding member of The Velvet Underground talks about his latest solo album and shares some of this favorite songs by other artists. Few artists have had ...