NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rock band Velvet Underground was celebrated for its legendary influence in fusing art and music in New York of the 1960s with a rare public reunion of three of the surviving members at the New York Public Library. The program "The Art and Soul of The Velvet Underground" on Tuesday night brought together Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker ...

A group of musicians who make their instruments from pots and pans and their microphones from old car parts have won the Best Newcomer Award at the Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Konono No 1, whose strange, distorted sound has been compared to the experimental rock of the Velvet Underground, hail from the poverty-stricken border of Congo and Angola ...

SEVENTIES : THE SIGHTS, SOUNDS AND IDEAS OF A BRILLIANT DECADE by Howard Sounes Simon & Schuster,

Born in 1965, Howard Sounes was scarcely out of short trousers by the time that Margaret Thatcher took power and kicked us out of the mire of complacent consensus and began to crush the tyranny of the unions.

Perhaps his vivacious and enjoyable new ...