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St. Vincent covered Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" at BAM (video, pics, setlist)

2194 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — St. Vincent and Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) played one of their stripped-down, piano-and-vocal shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music, and opened with a cover of a Lou Reed classic... Continue reading… more info

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Emperors of Rome – “Gun Life”

2201 days ago

Obscure Sound — “Gun Life” is the debut single from Emperors of Rome, the duo of Dom Bouffard (vocals & guitar) and Alli MacInnes (vocals, guitar & drums). They met on tour with former bands, later eloping in Berlin. Dom found work as a guitarist with Rufus Wain... more info

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Remembering Lou Reed: The Velvet Underground & Solo Live Jams Spotify Playlist

2219 days ago

JamBase — Celebrate Lou Reed on the anniversary of his death with a Spotify Playlist featuring The Velvet Underground and solo jams. more info

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Jesus and Mary Chain's Jim Reid shares Spotify playlist; NYC shows w/ Nine Inch Nails start this weekend

2236 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — 'Jim Reid Top Picks' include songs by The Kills, The Beatles, The Kinks, Lou Reed, Vashti Bunyan, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cult, Orange Juice, Nirvana, Neil Young, Go-Kart Mozart, The Snivelling Shits, and more. Continue reading… more info

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David Nance Group – “Poison”

2299 days ago

Stereogum — Rocker David Nance already has three albums under his belt as well as a few unlicensed whole-album covers of records like Lou Reed’s Berlin and the Rolling Stones’ Goat Head Soup. The latter got him a cease and desist letter directly from the Sto... more info

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Review: 'Nico, 1988' is powered by the formidable performance of Trine Dyrholm as the late pop singer

2305 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — If you know the name Nico at all, it's from a brief moment in time in the 1960s when she collaborated with Lou Reed on the iconic "The Velvet Underground & Nico" album and was anointed by the media as the epitome of hipster cool. But Nico's creative ... more info

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Sundaes – “Laundry Day”

2326 days ago

Obscure Sound — “Folding laundry time is dreaming time, I’m going for the gold,” are the lyrics that open the engrossing “Laundry Day”, a new track from Nashville act Sundaes. The vocal presence is quite reminiscent of Lou Reed, with the emerging flicker o... more info

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Shorties (Recommended Funny Novels by Women, A New Collection of Lou Reed Interviews, and more)

2326 days ago

LargeHeartedBoy — Literary Hub recommended funny novels by women (including one of my favorite books, Alina Bronsky's The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine). My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters With Lou Reed, a collection of interviews with the legend, will... more info

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Tina Harvey :: I’m Waiting For The Man (The Velvet Underground)

2364 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — Lou Reed tried to sell us on a Harlem heroin score being cool, even if he was feeling â€œmore dead than alive.â€ Tina Harvey went to the same dealer, but she was just jonesing. Gone is the jangly swagger of the Velvets uptown jaunt – she a... more info

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