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Listen: Alternative Version of Velvet Underground’s “I’m Beginning To See The Light”

Another previously unreleased Velvet Underground track from the multi-disc White Light/ White Heat due out next Tuesday.

Thanks Rolling Stone.

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Listen: Previously Unheard 19-Minute Version of Velvet Underground’s “Sister Ray”

On December 10 the Velvert Underground’s White Light/ White Heat will be released as a multi-disc set with lots of previously unreleased material. Here’s a 19-minute live version of “Sister Ray” recorded at the Gymnasium in New York City on April 30, 1967.

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Listen: Unreleased Velvet Underground Track Sees The Light, “I’m Not a Young Man Anymore”

A heretofore unreleased Velvet Underground recording, “I’m Not a Young Man Anymore,” went online today.

The song features a blistering guitar solo from Lou Reed.

It will appear on the expanded three-disc edition of 1968’s White Light/White Heat that will be released December 3, 2013. The album, co-curated by John Cale and Lou Reed before Reed’s death in late October, will include mono and stereo mixes of the entire album plus alternate and unreleased outtakes such as John Cale’s creep “The Gift.”

“I’m Not a Young Man Anymore”:

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