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Gorillaz's Lou Reed 'collaboration' leaks online

5558 days ago
NME — See what Velvet Underground man would look like as a cartoon, plus Murdoc threatens new NME Radio hijack more info
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Lou Reed to bring Metal Machine Trio to UK for gigs - exclusive

5565 days ago
NME — Velvet Underground man to play 'a night of deep noise' at shows more info
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Book of Moses (Skip Spence Cover)

5570 days ago
Aquarium Drunkard — If you have an Internet connection you’ve heard about Beck’s ongoing Record Club. We featured the first installment (Beck and assorted friends covering The Velvet Underground & Nico) back in August. I love that album—there’s no telling how ma... more info
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Portrait of the artist: Brett Anderson, musician

5573 days ago
Guardian Music — 'Rock's not all carnal glamour. You spend a lot of time sitting around backstage, fiddling with bits of cheese'What got you started?Being brought up in a very unusual way. My mother was an artist and my father an obsessive classical music fan. We wer... more info
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THE SUNDAY CORRESPONDENTS

5575 days ago
The Vinyl Villain — Welcome to the second in the new series which features guest postings from a small team of correspondents. Today's words of wisdom come from The Sense Collective, a long-time acquaintance who unbeknown to me was leaving behind comments based on a na... more info
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An audience with Brian Eno

5575 days ago
Guardian Music — He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading nextWhen influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the 1970s –... more info
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Fricke’s Picks: Velvet Folk Songs

5577 days ago
Rolling Stone — On the third and fourth Velvet Underground albums, 1969’s The Velvet Underground and 1970’s Loaded, bassist Doug Yule was the gripping boyish voice in Lou Reed’s dramas “Candy Says” and “New Age.” Yule now lives in Seattle and plays the... more info
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Back from the dead: Why I welcome a Swans reunion

5580 days ago
Guardian Music — The fiercely independent, post-punk eardrum perforators are to reunite. But there's plenty of evidence that they are motivated by more than just a big pay chequeAsked in a 2006 interview if he would ever consider reforming Swans, the band he led from... more info
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New band of the day – No 701: VOICEsVOICEs

5581 days ago
Guardian Music — Recalling the ethereal vocals of My Bloody Valentine, there Isn't Anything wrong with this female duo's blissed-out drone-popHometown: Echo Park, Los Angeles.The lineup: Nico Turner (vocals, guitar) and Jenean Farris (vocals, keyboards).The backgroun... more info
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Fugs' Tuli Kupferberg benefit show w/ Lou Reed, John Zorn, Sonic Youth, more ++ Velvet Underground 'reunion' audio

5585 days ago
Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Velvet Underground - live from the New York Public Library (MP3) Lou Reed, John Zorn, Sonic Youth and others will play a benefit concert for Tuli Kupferberg, the Beat poet and original member of the Fugs, at St. Ann's... more info
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