Veteran journalist and author Dylan Jones tells that unusual story in “Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground.” Or more precisely, Jones weaves together an oral history ...

Before they became synonymous with downtown cool, the Velvet Underground played a multiband bill at a suburban New Jersey high school in 1965. Parents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the ...

But he convincingly makes the case for the band’s historical importance. “Unpack the last 50 years of pop,” Jones writes, “and the broken fragments of the Velvet Underground are everywhere.” ...

Veteran journalist and author Dylan Jones tells that unusual story in “Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground.” Or more precisely, Jones weaves together an oral history ...

This cover image released by Grand Central shows "Loaded: The Uncensored Oral History of the Velvet Underground" by Dylan Jones. (Grand Central via AP) Before they became synonymous with downtown ...