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January 16, 2013Tonight, fans of the Velvet Underground will get to see their idols pay tribute to two of their most revered friends and collaborators--just not on the same stage. At Housing Works, Lou Reed will be celebrating the vinyl and digital re-issue of Allen Ginsberg's FIRST BLUES. Across the East River, Jo ... More >>
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May 23, 2012Voice Choices
April 4, 2012Blogs
March 23, 2012Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here.
Last time around Patti Smith showed John Zorn who has the power, and Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground got all "Venus In ... More >>
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February 15, 2012Blogs
January 20, 2012To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, Brad Nelson talks about the much-discussed collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, Lulu, which topped his ballot and came in at No. 94 on the albums poll.
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December 5, 2011Last month lots of ink and pixels were spent on Lulu, the collaboration between downtown bard Lou Reed and thrash lifers Metallica—"worst album of the year or maybe ever" declarations; "you just don't understand what Lou is trying to do" cries from partisans/people suspicious of the unw ... More >>
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November 4, 2011The ever-evolving microgenre of "trollgaze" isn't just limited to whippersnapper up-and-comers. Today we look at one of this week's most chattered-about albums, the Metallica/Lou Reed collaboration Lulu, to try and deduce one thing: Can a 90-minute double album based off German Expressionist ... More >>
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October 20, 2011The Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration Lulu has been one of the more curiosity-inspiring releases on this fall's docket, thanks in part to what's been revealed so far: the grinding atonality (that veers on amusicality) of lead single "The View," the inscrutable 30-second samples that were loose ... More >>
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October 20, 2011Compiled by Matt Ealer, Josh Gallaway, and Brad Nelson
Anton CorbijinLulu, the unearthly result of a collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, is composed of slow, meditative, minimal riffs and sometimes snaking, ambient horror over which Reed, in a sort of drained yet bold drawl—a ... More >>
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October 19, 2011As the drop date for Lulu, the collaborative album between Lou Reed and Metallica, draws ever nearer (it's out November 1), the wonder over what it might sound like is growing. Well, now the world has a slightly clearer idea, thanks to 30-second samples of the album's nine non-"The View" trac ... More >>
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September 26, 2011Last night Lou Reed and Metallica released "The View," the first track to surface from their forthcoming collaboration Lulu. The breathless press release introducing the album cites its "graphic lyrics of jealousy, lust, violence and revenge, its grinding riffs and tantalizing tones," and, we ... More >>
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August 10, 2011Blogs
July 20, 2011William RahillyWith her excellent debut Past Life Martyred Saints, former Gown Erika M. Anderson (a.k.a. EMA) has been causing quite a stir for dense sonics and harshly comic narratives that haven't been this critically acclaimed since the heyday of certain Seattlites. Or, if you let her tell ... More >>
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July 13, 2011The Black Angels take time off from planning their festival to play ours
Voice Choices
June 15, 2011Discover the city's seamy punk underbelly . . . and burn carbs!
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June 8, 2011Voice Choices
May 11, 2011Blogs
March 30, 2011
Better Than: Getting harassed by Lou Reed's manager.
There's many perfectly valid reasons to find Sean Lennon deeply dubious. The main knock on the guy is that he uses the obscene wealth and ridiculous connections to date models, to hang around in feathered fedoras, and to release solo albums per ... More >>
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March 22, 2011Police have actually arrested rock icon Lou Reed's manager for allegedly threatening to send Israeli hit men to go after a headhunter for the stars in a nasty squabble over an unpaid bill.
In a complaint filed two weeks ago with the Midtown North Detective Squad, as the Voice first reported, ... More >>
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January 12, 2011Blogs
October 7, 2010So Gorillaz are playing Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, a no doubt tasteful and demure evening of audio-visual whatsits allegedly featuring cameos by Bobby Womack, Mos Def, Lou Reed, and so forth. If you're short on cash or patience, though, the RSVP-only afterparty runs 10 p.m. to 4 a. ... More >>
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October 5, 2010It's a pretty intense week for visual excess at Madison Square Garden, beginning tonight and tomorrow with Roger Waters doing The Wall in all its stadium-rock glory (with another date Nov. 6) and continuing Friday with Gorillaz, everyone's favorite cartoon band, rolling in with several member ... More >>
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August 3, 2010Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: Release a bewildering triple-CD and date Andy Samberg. It's frankly shocking it took so long, but everyone's favorite mega-baroque harpist hits the big time November 23. Two days before thanksgiving, just FYI. Tickets on sale Monday, link TBA. If her pas ... More >>
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June 22, 2010Sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Let’s find out!
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December 16, 2009Thanks to Wired we now know that Lou Reed has an iPhone app. Designed by Reed and Ben Syverson, it takes the names from your contact list and puts them in various sizes of Helvetica Neue; tap one, and you get the contact's phone and other information, just like you normally would, except it' ... More >>
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November 10, 2009The Def Jam co-founder will host a Celebration FOR the Turkeys (i.e., not AGAINST) on Sunday, November 22, accompanied by like-minded blowhards Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Jonathan Safran Foer, a/k/a the guy who ruined Thanksgiving for thousands of families this year with his new Eating Ani ... More >>
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April 15, 2009Voice Choices
April 15, 2009Lou Reed promises ‘no songs’
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January 2, 2009
The ridiculous 2008 Kennedy Center Honors -- featuring bizarre tributes to Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, among others -- were recently televised, which gave us an idea for the next Administration. President Obama's walking into a seriously screwed-up economy and two wars. Since things are goin ... More >>
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December 22, 2008Blogs
December 4, 2008Voice Choices
December 3, 2008The Godfather of Punk signs your book
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October 22, 2008Walk on the wild side with Holly Woodlawn
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October 8, 2008Antony plays the house of Billie and Mr. Brown
Film
July 16, 2008Julian Schnabel captures the music, moment, and mood of Reed's once-maligned record
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June 6, 2008Blogs
May 6, 2008NYC Life
September 11, 2007Lou Reed hangs a photo show, and other tales of Fashion Week
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July 24, 2007For those about to rock, we review you
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December 5, 2006For the week of December 13–19, 2006
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December 20, 2005Specials
October 18, 2005NYC Life
January 25, 2005Tsunami benefits and political parties, oh my! Stars shine.
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June 8, 2004A sideman-soloist screaming to be heard, lost in despair
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March 16, 2004Theater
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