"Her manager, Alan Wise, said she died in a hospital on the island a few hours after the accident," The New York Times ...

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 ...

This week: France copes with the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks. Here is one of the greatest recordings ever made at the Bataclan, one of the sites of last week’s killings. From 1972, this ...

The German-born model and singer Nico is certainly of a time. Her voice hearkens to an era when music was simply different—and candidly, not so overproduced. She is part Bob Dylan and part Lou Reed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composite picture of Nico, Lou Reed and Jim Morrison Ever since his early Velvet Underground days, Reed’s attitude to The Doors ...

The music made by the songwriter and composer Nico in the two decades after her brief association with the Velvet Underground tended toward drone and plod, toward a Teutonic bluntness and a gothic ...