Everybody’s favorite child star has taken to the screen once more, this time for our new obsession: his pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band. Home Alone‘s Macaulay Culkin and a his friends have just shared a 15-minute video of them performing some of their songs as The Pizza Underground, performing onstage as well as prepping beforehand. The […]
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Watch Macaulay Culkin’s Pizza-Themed Velvet Underground Cover Band Perform in Short Video
December 13th, 2013 
Nina Corcoran Macaulay Culkin’s Pizza-Themed Velvet Underground Tribute Band
December 9th, 2013 Kendra Beltran If you’ve ever wanted to hear a former child star sing about the joys of pizza then your dream has come true, and it’s all thanks to Macaulay Culkin and his pizza-themed Velvet Underground tribute band appropriately named The Pizza Underground. Last week The Pizza Underground debuted a demo tape featuring what we’re sure are […]
Velvet Underground to make rare appearance
November 18th, 2009 Chris Courtesy Pitchfork One-time Velvet Underground cohorts Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule are set to appear in the same room together– something that doesn’t happen very often. (But where’s John Cale?– Ed.) The three will talk about VU on December 8 at the New York Public Library as part of their “Live from the […]
Velvet Underground’s Box Set
September 26th, 2009 Chris Courtesy of Los Angeles Times “The Velvet Underground Singles 1966-1969” is an illuminating new boxed set that helps explain how the Lou Reed-led band could be influential enough to get voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without ever having had a hit single or album. For decades now, the Velvets have been […]
Kurt Cobain’s 1988 Mixtape Sees The Light Of Day
November 3rd, 2014 Dana Reandelar Before Nirvana‘s 1989 debut record, Bleach, was Montage Of Heck, a 36-minute collection of ambiguous noises and audio clips collaged together by the late Kurt Cobain. With the Nirvana’s style of grunge embedded into their members’ very being, an outlandish compilation such as this comes to us as no surprise. Published this weekend by Dangerous […]
UTG ALBUM PREMIERE: Belda Beast – ‘Belda Beast’
May 1st, 2014 Brian Leak Way back in 2012, we ran a feature introducing our friend Zach Zeller, a genuinely talented musician based out of Northern California. Over the past several years, Zach’s been balancing duties between multiple projects, most recently devoting his time to Belda Beast, a band that originally formed back in 2006 and has seen a boundless […]
Wes Anderson Tribute Album Coming Next Spring
November 20th, 2013 Tyler Hanan In the spring of 2014, American Laundromat Records will release a Wes Anderson tribute album titled I Saved Latin! featuring covers of music from many of the auteur’s much-loved films. Most notably, music will be included from Rushmore (currently eight songs planned), The Royal Tenenbaums (five), and The Darjeeling Limited and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (three songs each). As relayed by Consequence […]
Morrissey To Release Lou Reed Cover
November 11th, 2013 Rebecca Docter According to Rolling Stone, the former Smiths frontman will release a cover of Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love” as a tribute to the late Velvet Underground singer. The track’s release will coincide with the audio release of Morrissey’s autobiography, and will be released as a special seven-inch and digital download. A mini-set of tracks are […]
The Killers Pay Tribute To Lou Reed
October 30th, 2013 Rebecca Docter The band covered a song in honor of the late Velvet Underground singer at a homecoming show in Las Vegas at Life Is Beautiful Festival on October 27. Killers vocalist Brandon Flowers addressed the audience saying that Reed was a direct inspiration for the song “All These Things That I’ve Done.” The band played a […]
Legendary Musician Lou Reed Passes Away At 71
October 27th, 2013 Troy Sennett The world of rock and roll lost one of its most legendary and influential figures today in Lou Reed, who passed away at age seventy-one. The cause of his death has not been disclosed, but he had been experiencing health problems and underwent a liver transplant earlier this year. Reed is best known for his […]
UTG Exclusive: Stages & Stereos Reveal ‘Small Town Favorites’ EP Cover, Track Listing
September 4th, 2013 James Shotwell Summer may be winding down, but that isn’t stopping pop rockers Stages & Stereos from continuing to spread their message of positivity to the masses, and today we’re excited to be partnering with the band to reveal the artwork and track listing for their upcoming Small Town Favorites EP. Produced by Zack Odom and Kenneth […]
Details Released On Upcoming ‘CBGB’ Soundtrack
August 2nd, 2013 Adrian Garza The upcoming CBGB biopic is receiving a lot of attention from the music world, and for a good reason: If it weren’t for the famous NYC venue’s existence, punk music and alternative music as we know it wouldn’t be in the state that it is in. The film is centered around Hilly Kristal, the club […]