The Velvet Underground "White Light / White Heat" 2024-11-01 including Zach de la Rocha

including Zach de la Rocha

Reissue of the Alt-Rock pioneers' 1987 album

Inspired by their time playing raves and rock clubs all over the globe since the release of Days Gone By

this album rips through 15 tracks of high-energy punk that's accompanied by heavy bass leads and Armstrong's permanently slurred vocals

Matrix / Runout: ED 216 A̶ B

The Velvet Underground "White Light / White Heat" 2024-11-01 including Zach de la RochaRecorded without the input of either Nico or Andy Warhol, White Light White Heat was the purest and rawest document of the key Velvets lineup of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, capturing the group at their toughest and most abrasive. The album opens with an open and enthusiastic endorsement of amphetamines (startling even from this group of noted drug enthusiasts), and side one continues with an amusing shaggy dog story set