John Cale is on a formidable hot streak in his 80s. When the Welsh avant-garde legend released Mercy last year, it was his first album in a decade. But he’s already produced another gem with POPtical ...

John Cale, the ever-inventive Welsh musician and former member of the Velvet Underground, has announced his first new album of all new material in 10 years, Mercy, out Jan. 20, 2023 via Double ...

Nov. 10 (UPI) --Former Velvet Underground musician John Cale joined Charli XCX for a song that will be included on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell's upcoming film Wuthering Heights. The music video ...

KEYSTONE – When Mojo magazine asked Eric Clapton which musician, other than himself, he had ever wanted to be, Clapton named J.J. Cale. Cale scored his first hit as a songwriter with “After Midnight,” ...

On a recent weekend, John Cale and friends played two programs in the BAM Next Wave Festival. On Thursday and Friday, they played “The Velvet Underground & Nico”; on Saturday, they played music from ...

SUMMERS: That's them on March 14 in Sao Paulo. Of course, COVID lockdowns were sweeping across the world, so Cale and the band cut the tour short and caught one of the last flights back to the States.

At 80, the musician who helped found the Velvet Underground before a prolific run as a producer and solo artist is releasing a new LP and mentoring new generations of avant-garde creators. John Cale’s ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock `n' roll. His best songs like ...