Julian Casablancas Covers the Velvet Underground’s ‘Run Run Run’

Written by Rachel Brodsky | February 19, 2016 - 10:08 am

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 06: Julian Casablancas of band the Voidz performs during the 2014 Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall's Island on June 6, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images)

Now that HBO’s Vinyl, a show that chronicles the sometimes-corrupt music business in 1970s New York, is officially on the air, fellow New Yorker and Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has contributed a song to the show’s soundtrack: a cover of the Velvet Underground‘s 1967 single “Run Run Run.” Listen below, and grab the second volume of the Vinyl soundtrack, out now via Atlantic/Warner Bros.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5sSTjD2sgJg