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Lou Reed/Metallica Collaboration Gets a Release Date

This is really happening. Lou Reed and Metallica’s collaborative album now has a release date, according to their website, the elegantly titled "loureedmetallica.com." Expect to hear from the unlikely collaborators on Nov. 1 in the U.S. and Oct. 31 worldwide.   read more

R.E.M. Finishes Recording New Album

Members of R.E.M. have been spending a lot of time in recording studios. The band’s guitarist, Peter Buck, recently collaborated with The Decemberists and helped form the supergroup Tired Pony with longtime R.E.M. contributor Scott McCaughey. Now, according to the band’s website, the follow-up to 2008’s Accelerate has finished recording at the Hansa Studio in Berlin....  read more

Lou Reed Revisits Berlin

In Lou Reed’s New York, the people worth knowing—the ones with nobility—are jazz arrangers, maverick saxophonists, conceptual artists. Characters. These days, that’s pretty much who to mention if...  read more

Berlin Dispatch: Dance Music Gives Rock a Beatdown

Between 1961 and 1989, Berlin was divided by a wall, and on each side was a culture, one of which was communist. Which isn’t to say that the commies didn’t rock—far from it: They had bands in East Berlin, notably The Puhdys...  read more