Gigwise — After album cover 'looks like graffiti'... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Lou Reed and Metallica tease 'Lulu' with a snippet of a new song. more info

Stereogum — When we first learned that Lou Reed and Metallica had gone and made an entire album together, just about everyone asked the same question at the exact same time: How could this possibly sound? We’re still a long way away from a definitive answer, b... more info

The Quietus — Clip online now! more info

NME — Head to NME.COM now to hear snippet from their collaboration album more info

DrownedInSound — Back in June it was revealed that Lou Reed and Metallica were working together on an album, scheduled for release in 2011. There have since been a few more drips of information, but now we can hear the first snippet, as it has apparently leaked onto ... more info

Metal Injection — I don't know why I even thought that the Metallica & Lou Reed collaboration would be bearable. I thought Death Magnetic was alright, but I'm not exactly clamoring to listen to it again. For some reason though, I thought the addition of Lou ... more info

Metalsucks — A thirty second sample of “The View,” one of the songs on Metallica and Lou Reed’s upcoming Lulu, is now available for streaming (below). And while it is, of course, horribly unfair to judge an album based on thirty seconds, I am now fully prep... more info

Guardian Music — Transcender, London"Ecstatic, hypnotic and just plain psychedelic" is the motto for the Transcender festival, the pervasive feeling of the event being that music from anywhere in the world can blow someone's mind. Now in its third year, Transcender b... more info

Guardian Music — (Topic)Twenty-one years ago, June Tabor and Oysterband got together to record what is now recognised as an English folk-rock classic. It wasn't exclusively a folk album, though there were some traditional tracks, but rather an eclectic, powerful rewo... more info