Guest DJ John Cale: NPR

Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood displays John Cale as daring as ever. Cutting snippets of glitches, tweaking knobs for the appropriate pitch, and utilizing voice effects to achieve his vision — these are things that we’ve come to know and respect Cale for, now for nearly half a century. In his guest-DJ spot with NPR, Cale offers a little history on some Velvet Undergound classics and shares his musical origins. Listen to the feature here and celebrate one of the most influential artists making music today.