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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.

It’s quite a job surveying compositions written across the centuries, recordings made over several decades, and new artists and music emerging every day, but that’s what Cale Wiggins does in his role ...

John Cale is relentlessly innovative, his latest project is a radical re-interpretation of his 1982 album Music For A New Society. The result is a dramatically different album using familiar building ...

John Cale’s relentless piano hammerings can be heard, not too faintly, in the backdrop of many an early Velvet Underground record. His accompaniment on the title track ‘White Light/White Heat’ is one ...

Grammy Award-winner J.J. Cale, the spotlight-shunning troubadour who counted Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Beck among his greatest admirers, died Friday night at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla. A ...

“If you keep your heart open, it will beat forever,” John Cale said as he left the stage after his second set on January 19th, the conclusion of When Past & Future Collide, a three-night retrospective ...

The two musicians co-founded The Velvet Underground in 1965. By THR Staff John Cale, who co-founded The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed in 1965, has commented on the death of his bandmate. In a ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

John Cale's restless artistic spirit has taken him on a fascinating odyssey over four decades and shows no sign of stopping. The 61-year-old founding member of The Velvet Underground was a Welsh child ...

When John Cale looks back at his experimental solo album Music for a New Society, all he remembers is personal chaos and turmoil. Since exiting the Velvet Underground in 1968, he had explored ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this interview with Eric Clapton contained an inaccurate quote about meeting the late JJ Cale. Clapton's correct quote: "He showed me a guitar he ...