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Watch Joseph Arthur, Peter Buck, And Mike Mills Cover Lou Reed On Letterman

3920 days ago

Stereogum — Last night, on his Late Show, David Letterman announced his impending retirement, and the former R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills, randomly enough, was the one who broke the news via Twitter. Mills was there because he and his former bandmate Peter Buck wer... more info

Joseph Arthur releasing a Lou Reed tribute album, touring (dates & "Walk on the Wild Side" video)

3928 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — a masked Joseph Arthur w/ RNDM (more by Sachyn Mital) Joseph Arthur will pay tribute to one of his friends and influences, Lou Reed, who passed away last year, with a tribute album, Lou, due out on May 13 via... more info

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SXSW 2014: The winners and losers at the Texas music festival

3938 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Critic's Notebook: Lady Gaga and the rest of the music-marketing crowd are the losers at South by Southwest, while the indie showcases, the coolly uncool and the Lou Reed saluters are the winners.AUSTIN, Texas — Here's to bad vibes, colored vomit a... more info

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SXSW 2014: Lou Reed tribute mostly rises to the challenge

3939 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — On Friday night while the youth were out chasing the next revolution and the lemmings were packing the Hype Hotel at South by Southwest, the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin. Texas, hosted a crowd comfortably removed from the chaos who were medit... more info

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SXSW 2014: Lou Reed tribute mostly rises to the challenge

3939 days ago

L.A. Times - News — more info

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Watch Iggy Pop And New Order Play “Love Will Tear Us Apart” And “Californian Grass”

3943 days ago

Stereogum — Last night Carnegie Hall hosted the 24th annual benefit concert for Tibet House US, a non-profit organization geared toward preserving Tibetan culture. Patti Smith (covering Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day”), members of the National with Sufjan Stevens... more info

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Spandau Ballet To Lead Lou Reed Tribute At South-by-southwest Festival

3948 days ago

ContactMusic — Reunited British new wave group Spandau Ballet have added their name to a planned Lou Reed tribute as part of the South-by-Southwest festival in... more info

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GDP made a video from upcoming LP, touring w/ Rosegold

3978 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Lou Reed I mean GDP in "The Next Day" video NY/NJ alternative rapper GDP is set to follow his 2013 EP on Run For Cover, Holla, (and a recent collaboration with Antwon) with a new full length,... more info

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Lou Reed :: Ultrasonic Recording Studio, Hempstead, NY 12/26/72

3978 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — The day after Christmas, December of 1972: Lou Reed and band (The Tots) in Hempstead, NY, recording live for radio at Untrasonic Recording Studio. Recorded just a month after the release of Transformer, the set finds Reed pulling from the new recor... more info

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