the Velvet Underground
USA
Formed: 1964
Died: 01 January 1996
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Proto-Punk, Hard Rock, Punk/New Wave, Experimental Rock, Art-Rock/Experimental, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock
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Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground during their brief lifespan. It was the group's lot to be ahead of, or at least out of step with, their time. The mid- to late '60s was an era of explosive growth and experimentation in rock, but the Velvets' innovations -- which blended the energy of rock with the sonic adventurism of the avant-garde, and introduced a new degree of social realism and sexual kinkiness into rock lyrics -- were too abrasive ...
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