Another dive into the CD shelves, where we’re uncovering more bonus track gold. This time around Justin Gage and Tyler Wilcox have dug up some swampy jams, beautiful b-sides and righteously funky demos, all from that early- to mid-1970s sweet spot. Fire up that Discman and listen in.
Category: John Cale
You’re A Ghost :: John Cale’s Paris 1919, Re-Imagined
“Paris 1919 is John Cale’s furthest excursion into musical imagination, illuminating horizons heretofore unsighted,” went the PR copy for John Cale’s third solo effort, which was released 50 years ago this month. To celebrate Paris 1919‘s 50th anniversary, here’s a re-imagined version of the LP, featuring some choice covers, oddities and even a few appearances from Cale himself. Take down the flags of ownership and listen in.
John Cale :: Rond Point, Marseilles, France, April 12, 1975
The mighty John Cale has re-emerged — he’s touring Europe as we speak and has a new LP coming out early next year (You can check out the Weyes Blood-assisted “Story of Blood” now). In the meantime, let’s go back to the mid-1970s when John was just getting going as a touring act. He’d obviously played live plenty before, but following the release of 1975’s Slow Dazzle, he really leaned into being a traveling musician.
Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico :: Le Bataclan, Paris 1972
Taste the whip. Captured in January 1972, a year and half following Lou Reed’s hard exit from the Velvet Underground, we find ourselves at Le Bataclan theatre, Paris, France. The occasion marked a semi-impromptu reunion of the former VU bandmates. For a night, anyway.
John Cale, Nick Cave & Chrissie Hynde: Songwriters Circle (BBC 1999)
Twenty years ago next month, at the crest of the twentieth century, the BBC aired an episode of its long-running “Songwriters Circle” with featured guests John Cale, Nick Cave and […]
Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico :: Le Bataclan, Paris 1972
“This is a song about copping drugs in New York…” Taste the whip. Captured in January 1972, a year and half following Lou Reed’s hard exit from the Velvet Underground, […]
John Cale :: Fragments of a Rainy Season
John Cale is well-known as a man of many talents — producer / arranger / multi-instrumentalist / singer / songwriter / possessor of an insane scream, to name just a […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. John Cale is the selector – […]
John Cale :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
When John Cale released Music for a New Society in 1982, he was coming off a decade-and-a-half hot streak. First as a member of the Velvet Underground , then as a solo […]
John Cale :: The John Peel Session (1975)
Following his exit from the VU John Cale kept busy as a producer, sonically manning the helm behind Nico’s The Marble Index / Desertshore and the Stooges landmark debut LP. All […]
John Cale :: Big White Cloud
Following his departure from The Velvet Underground, John Cale re-emerged with this sleeper of a solo debut, Vintage Violence . The centerpiece of the record is the lush and elysian dream-pop […]
John Cale :: Heartbreak Hotel (Musical Express, 1981)
In the mid-70s, John Cale recorded a trio of solo albums for Island Records. Ever the forerunner of avant-garde, Cale concocted a heady brew of proto-punk, glam and art pop […]
John Cale & Friends :: The Ocean Club – NYC, July 21, 1976
Ten years after they first emerged from Warhol’s Factory, the Velvet Underground loomed larger than ever before in the CBGB-centered NYC punk scene of the mid-1970s. With Patti Smith leading […]
John Cale :: Paris 1919
Tuesday, while walking through the hallowed halls of Capitol Records’ studios, in Hollywood, surrounded by decades of recorded musical history, I had a conversation with a friend regarding album art: […]