Articles tagged "lou reed"

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The Music of Adventureland (stream)

by Thomas Britt

[25.Mar.09] :. Greg Mottola’s upcoming Adventureland extends his Superbad interest in awkward young coupling, but this time around he’s chosen a more romantic approach. The wall-to-wall...

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Sound Affects

Berlin gets a second chance to impress

by Michael Edler

[20.Jan.09] :. “I never met a hero I didn’t like. But then, I never met a hero. But then, maybe I wasn’t looking for one.” -- Lester Bands on Lou Reed.

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Sound Affects

Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…—Episode 2

by Zeth Lundy

[10.Dec.08] :. Since we’re in the thick of the holiday season, I should mention that the instrumental theme song to Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… (Wednesdays at 9pm EST/PST on the Sundance...

Sound Affects

 

Music Review

Lou Reed: Berlin: Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse

by Craig Carson

[3.Nov.08] :. Lou Reed's Berlin is a classic. Lou Reed's Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse is not.

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Short Ends and Leader

Lou Reed’s Berlin (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[26.Sep.08] :. Music is the most opened ended of mediums. Individuals can influence the reception of a song or a sonic cycle simply by using their own personal powers of interpretation. What may sound like a...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Music Review

E.S.L.: Eye Contact

by Chris Conaton

[28.Aug.08] :. A band that consists of piano, cello, violin, and drums. An all-female group unafraid to cover Neil Young and the Beastie Boys. A song that compares a lover to Secretariat. E.S.L. is all of these things.

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Lou Reed’s SXSW conversation focuses on ‘Berlin’ album and inferiority of the iPod MP3 sound

by Timothy Finn [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Mar.08] :. AUSTIN, Texas - The keynote address to this year’s South by Southwest Music Conference wasn’t a speech. Instead it was a conversation between two friends and admirers about American...

 

Why Does the Music Have to End?: An Interview with Lou Reed

by Evan Sawdey

[12.Nov.07] :. Three decades letter, Metal Machine Music gets a classical reworking. Lou Reed talks to PopMatters about this legendary album and Zeitkratzer's interpretation of it.

 

The Sydney Morning Herald and the cultural life of Sydney

by Jillian Burt

[29.Jul.07] :. Moving to Sydney from Melbourne two weeks ago has pitched me into a realm of “branded content” that’s fluid and without boundaries that stylistically apes media’s alpha...

 
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Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2005)

by John Dover

[12.Jul.07] :. A fine, moving and illuminating account of a writer who used the bleak, harrowing circumstances of his life to forge a unique style that addressed concerns and characters often absent from the literature of his time.

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Lou Reed performs “Berlin”

by Carolyn Turgeon

[8.Jan.07] :. When I heard that Lou Reed would be spending four nights in Brooklyn performing his landmark 1973 album, Berlin, in its entirety, it seemed impossible to pass up. Of course, it seemed equally impossible that it’d be any good...

 

Influential rock pioneer Lou Reed’s eyes are on the future

by Shay Quillen [San Jose Mercury News, Calif.]

[6.Nov.06] :. Lou Reed isn’t one to focus on the past. The music he created in the 1960s and `70s remains a touchstone for the hippest rock bands. But Reed would rather talk about his new Moog Voyager...

 

Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby

by John Bergstrom

[23.Oct.06] :. On this tuneful 1976 gem, the streetwise, gender-bending rebel revealed that all he really wanted was to "play football for the coach".

 

Lou Reed: Live at Montreux 2000 [DVD]

by Jon Langmead

[7.Dec.05] :. The strongest point of this collection may be that the song selection makes a strong case for his work from the past 20 years without putting it into contrast with his Velvet Underground and '70s solo work.

 

Lou Reed: Spanish Fly: Live in Spain [DVD]

by Nicholas Taylor

[16.Jun.05] :. While his music is brimming with life and action, his stage presence has always left something to be desired.

 

Lou Reed: The Raven

by Adrien Begrand

[19.Feb.03] :. > As I write this review, it has now been three weeks since Lou Reed’s epic ode to Edgar Allan Poe The Raven has been available in stores. Critics, both in print and on the web, have...

 

    Lou Reed: Ecstasy

by Jason Thompson

[3.Apr.00] :. Last year, Lou Reed returned with one of his best albums of his entire career. Having been a fan of his since my days in high school and gathering up every Velvet Underground and solo LP I could get...