ROME – Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli’s biopic “Nico, 1988,” about the late German chanteuse who was among Andy Warhol’s muses and sang with the Velvet Underground, has been set as the opening ...

The music made by the songwriter and composer Nico in the two decades after her brief association with the Velvet Underground tended toward drone and plod, toward a Teutonic bluntness and a gothic ...

"I'll be your mirror," intoned Nico in 1966, singing one of the many tunes given her by a lover. In retrospect, the line neatly captures the model-actress-singer's '60s persona: a thin, icily ...

ico, the German ice goddess Andy Warhol paired with the Velvet Underground in 1967, nursed a heavy heroin addiction during the 70s and 80s, and this depressing biopic about her last two years finds ...

It’s a defiant stance made clear at the onset of “Nico, 1988,” an offbeat, behind-the-music biopic chronicling the final two years of Päffgen’s troubled relationships with fame, drugs and a young son ...

I'm often reluctant to spend too much time on things past - then, a time marker shows up - The Velvet Underground & Nico turns 50! As so many bands can attest to, its the fulfillment of the ultimate ...

Born Christa Päffgen, she became Nico—a model, actress, and singer who left a mark on everyone she met. She walked runways and flickered through arthouse reels before her haunting voice bled into ...

Charli XCX received the Hitmaker of the Year Award at Variety‘s eighth annual Hitmakers Brunch last night (12/7), and during her acceptance speech, she chose to point out that the definition of a “hit ...