John Cale is back with a new single, the sultry, groovy “Night Crawling.” The song has Cale recalling his friendship in the early-’70s with David Bowie, and is the first taste of what sounds like a ...

John Cale has announced Mercy, his first album in a decade, which will be out January 20 via Double Six / Domino. He made the album with frequent collaborator Nita Scott and it features many ...

Cale wanted to talk about language. “Language was both a problem and an inspiration for me,” he said. “I grew up with my mother speaking Welsh, and the rest of my family speaking Welsh.” His father, ...

The guiding principle for John Mulaney’s musical guests on his Netflix talk show Everybody’s Live seems to be “why not.” Why not have Kim Gordon and Kim Deal perform together as The Kims? Why not let ...

Musician John Cale is perhaps best known for his brief tenure as second banana to Lou Reed in The Velvet Underground. But Cale's musical background in the avant-garde was a vital ingredient of that ...

John Cale has announced his new album Mercy with a video for his new song “Story of Blood,” featuring Weyes Blood. The album features additional contributions from Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, ...

You never know what to expect from a new John Cale record, whether it be avant-garde experimentation, a reinterpretation of an older release, or simply dirty ass rock ‘n’ roll. Now, after a decade ...

The last time I saw John Cale, a significant percentage of the audience missed one of his best numbers. Before Cale and his band came on stage, the house music faded down and was replaced by a single ...

The post John Cale Announces Reissues of Paris 1919 and The Academy in Peril appeared first on Consequence. “Revisiting work from the past is a double-edged sword for me. Of course, it’s bound to ...

It’s hard to convey how much the music of John Cale means to me. The Welsh-born polymath cofounded the Velvet Underground, bringing a crucial avant-garde perspective to the band; he’d worked with ...

Lou Reed's death leaves John Cale and Moe Tucker as the only living original members of art rock icons Velvet Underground. Cale, who co-founded the group with Reed in 1965, reacted to the news with a… ...

John Cale’s career came full circle Sunday at a sold-out Rubloff Auditorium at the Art Institute of Chicago. In a rare local appearance, the iconic experimental musician staged a 125-minute concert to ...