Todd Haynes has just teased his latest cinematic outing, a deep-dive expose on the rock band The Velvet Underground.For the uninitiated, The Velvet Underground burst onto the music underground in the mid-1960s.
Lead by guitarist/singer (and noted bisexual) Lou Reed, the group became a favorite of artist Andy Warhol and pioneered work on the idea of concept albums; that is, albums that tell a loose story about a group of characters, and that mediate on different real-world themes.
Despite the art-house cred–and the support of popular musicians including Marianne Faithful and Mick Jagger–The Velvet Underground never quite found mainstream stardom and disbanded in 1970.