The Velvet Underground & Nico "Velvet Underground & Nico" (2015 Reissue) 2023-09-29 The album includes tracks from

The album includes tracks from Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor and Hellbilly Deluxe 2 for the first time on a live audio release

bassist Karl Alvarez (Descendents

BYO founders Mark and Sean Stern and many others

Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis over a three month period in 1987 - with legendary producer Jim Dickinson - Please To Meet Me was the only album recorded by the band as a trio

while ‘Shake Your Rump’ is the great party-starting single that never was and Miami bass receives an outing on ‘Hello Brooklyn’ (part of the closing 12-minute tour de force that is the nine-part ‘B-Boy Bouillabaisse’ suite)

The Velvet Underground & Nico "Velvet Underground & Nico" (2015 Reissue) 2023-09-29 The album includes tracks fromThis album features the first professional line up of The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen "Moe" Tucker, plus Nico singing on three tracks ("Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror"). Most of the songs were recorded in April 1966 in a run down recording studio before the band even had a contract. They were turned down by big name labels such as Columbia, Atlantic Records and Elektra. Since