USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you want to catch a glimpse of Lou Reed's softer side, ask him about his rat terrier, Lolabelle. "She's just perfect," Reed ...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
MONTREAL.- The Musée d'art contemporain will be literally electrified this fall by the exhibition Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. The title is taken from the eponymous Rolling Stones song. Montréal is the only stop in Canada and the Northeast for this exhibition, which will run from October 10, 2008 to January 11, 2009.
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
I recently saw one of my favorite movies again, The Royal Tenenbaums. It’s definitely good for a laugh, but I’m always struck by the soundtrack, which provides a sonic pastiche of the movie. One of the songs featured is “These Days” which was written by Jackson Browne and performed by Nico, formerly of the Velvet [...]
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Compiled by: Emily 01. Air - "High School Lover" (The Virgin Suicides OST) 02. Martha Wainwright - "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Factory EP) 03. The Beatles - "Yesterday" (Help!) 04. The Bravery - "The Ocean" (The Sun And The Moon) 05. The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting For The Man" (The Velvet Underground & Nico) 06. Pagoda - "The Happy Song" (House Of Worship) 07. The Hush Sound - "You Are The Moon" (Like...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
In Rolling Stone’s recent review of Lou Reed’s Berlin: Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Barry Walters writes, “The Kurt Weill-like class commentary of ‘Men of Good Fortune’ gains severity: Guitarist Steve Hunter embodies privilege with flashy heroics, and Reed represents unskilled labor via blunt six-string bursts.” The album is out digitally now via iTunes and [...]
Billboard (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The performers shared minimal interaction on stage, but when their eyes locked, it provided the performance with welcome jolts of humanity.
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
At 21 minutes long Vivian Girls‘ debut album is over almost before it begins; it flashes by in a cloud of sludgy distortion and hissy noise. The trio belongs to a proud heritage of noise pop that started (as do so many things) with the Velvet Underground, went through to the Shop Assistants and early [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Musician, and all round greatest living Welshman - sorry Tom Jones - John Cale is curating and headlining a tribute to Bavarian ice maiden Nico at the Royal Festival Hall. Described as "an iconoclastic tribute" to his Velvet Underground colleague...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Dancer Vs. Politician's music perfectly matches the season where the colours are warm and the wind is cold. Yes, I'm talking about autumn. By far my favorite season of the four, A City Half-Lost is an album that enhances the richness of the current state outside my window. And that's pretty impressive considering that I [...]
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Beck, MGMT and Chicago radio station WXRT teamed up to bring fans a surprise set at Martyrs before their previously announced show at the Aragon later that evening. In an ...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Just because the idea of assembling the worst album covers of all time has been done quite a bit over the past few years doesn't mean we can't always use yet another gallery of cringe-worthy covers. The Chicago Tribune is...
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
As it turns out, Andy Warhol's relationship with music went back a lot farther than, well, the Velvet Underground. It actually began when he was Andrew Warhola, designing for Opera News (pictured) and creating classical record covers in the fifties....
LA Times (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The Velvet Underground rocker hones his creative legacy with help from saxophonist Krieger and electronic alchemist Sarth Calhoun.
Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
I was introduced by Celeste to Stuff White People Like a couple weeks back (I know, I’m a bit behind on this), and I’ve been reading the site ever since. So when I was in Barnes and Noble the other day and saw the “Stuff White People Like” book on the shelf, I had [...]
BTC News (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
I’ve been browsing the somewhat peculiar music collection at the main branch of the Santa Monica public library. I’ve come to trust, more or less, the music buyer’s taste in popular music, but have noted a number of quirks, a la the Girls. There’s a group called the Beta Band which is represented by four [...]
