Amoeba Music

By Chris Morris

          “Not for the kiddies,” pioneering rock encyclopedist Lillian Roxon wrote in her entry on The Velvet Underground. She hit the nail on the head: The Velvets can be considered the first adult rock ‘n’ roll band. With their arrival in 1966-67, they expanded the expressive possibilities of the music for all time.

            The Velvets, Roxon noted perceptively, “were as far away as a group could possibly be from the world of incense and peppermints and lollipops and even earnest teenage protest. Theirs was the dim underworld of drugs and sexual... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Psychedelic, Experimental, Avant-Garde, Hard Rock, Proto-Punk

City Of Origin:

New York City, ,New York United States

Formed Date:

1965