Kurt Vile has been performing covers of The Velvet Underground's "Run Run Run" since he was a teen growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs. In 2017, he got to play the song with Velvet Underground ...

The post Rob Laakso, of Kurt Vile & The Violators, Dead at 44 appeared first on Consequence. Rob Laakso, a member of Kurt Vile’s band The Violators, has died at the age of 44 following a battle with ...

Alternative rocker and Americana artist Kurt Vile is rolling into Spokane with his band the Violators. The former lead guitarist of the War on Drugs left to establish his own solo career, which he has ...

This was sooo much better. Forced to relocate from what would have been a triumphant re-opening of Club DaDa to City Tavern (thank you, ponderous permitting process of our local government), Kurt Vile ...

In an early glimpse at a forthcoming Velvet Underground tribute album, indie rockers Kurt Vile and the Violators released their souped-up rendition of “Run Run Run,” the 1967 song Lou Reed penned on ...

Kurt Vile is truly an icon in the professional music world. He does it all from producing to writing to actually performing, and his flowing brown locks and fun loving personality definitely give him ...

Kurt Vile has shared a statement paying tribute to his late friend and bandmate Rob Laakso, who died last week at age 44 from cholangiocarcinoma—a rare form of bile duct cancer. Laakso was a longtime ...

Rob Laakso, a guitarist with Kurt Vile & The Violators and the Swirlies, died on Thursday after battling an aggressive form of cancer called Cholangiocarcinoma. He was 44. The news was confirmed by ...

Longtime guitarist of Kurt Vile and the Violators and multi-instrumentalist, Rob Laakso, has passed away following a battle with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of bile duct cancer. He ...