Pages tagged “lou reed”

Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan Talks Collaborating with George W. Bush, Getting Complimented by Lou Reed

Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo thought his band's potential pairing with NASCAR seemed safe enough, and he went into the deal with a "Why not?" sort of attitude....  read more

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Lollapalooza 2009 Day Three Photos: Jane's Addiction, Lou Reed, Bat for Lashes, Band of Horses and More

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[Above: Cage the Elephant]Photos taken by Doug Seymour at Lollapalooza...  read more

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Jeffrey Lewis' 10 Overlooked or Misunderstood Musical Gems

Comic book fiend, anti-folk hero and Paste Artist of the Week Jeffrey Lewis recently dug through his record crates to share with us, in his own words, ten overlooked or misunderstood musical gems. (Enjoy the tracks we could find online, and have fun hunting down the rest.)...  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time

As we began to compile this list of the 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time—asking for input from Paste readers, writers and editors—someone suggested that it might be easier to compile a list of artists who haven't covered Dylan. I've listened to literally hundreds of Dylan covers over the course of the past week, trying to weigh choices like, "Who's version of 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time' is better, Nick Drake or Nickel Creek?" But I don't mean to make it sound like grueling work. My biggest take-away from this exercise is that going to Dylan for source...  read more

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Lollapalooza 2009 line-up to feature Tool, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Jane's Addiction, Snoop Dogg, many more

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After months of anticipation, Lollapalooza has finally announced its full 2009 line-up. Taking place Aug. 7-9 in Chicago's Grant Park, the event hosts the proverbial headliners (Tool, The Killers, Jane's Addiction, Beastie Boys, Lou Reed, Snoop Dog, Depeche Mode), the indie-rock staples (Vampire Weekend, TV On the Radio, The Decemberists, Ben Folds, Of Montreal) the slightly under-the-radar favorties (The Raveonettes, Bat For Lashes, Ra Ra Riot, Heartless Bastards) and the up-and-coming baby bands (Passion Pit, Hockey, The Low Anthem, The Virgins) one might expect, plus many more....  read more

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Lou Reed: Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse

A live opus, twenty-five years in the makingThe 1970s saw the heyday of the rock opera, with musical opuses by Genesis, Queen and Meat Loaf all vying to out-bombast The Who’s seminal Tommy and Quadrophenia and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar. Lou Reed's contribution to the genre came in 1973 with Berlin, his psychodrama about a drug-addicted couple that mixed the titular German capital’s art-born-of-political-strife with an LES aesthetic—and nearly relegated Reed's post-Velvet Underground solo career to one-hit-wonder status....  read more

Found in: Culture, Reviews, Local:NYC

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

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Unglued: Only Played Once!

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Trawling Amazon’s used CD listings, Paste noticed a startling trend. If the comments sections are to be trusted, incredible numbers of music fans are buying albums, playing them exactly one time, and then whisking them off to the land of eCommerce. To get to the bottom of this phenomenon, we embarked on a rigorous series of fake interviews with these hasty sellers, to find out why a certain album graced their CD player exactly once, and not a moment more....  read more

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Cartier teams with Reed, Cotillard, more for charity

The Age of Disco gave us a lot of cultural touchstones, not the strangest of which was the Cartier Love bracelet. Fashioned after chastity belts of yore, the bracelet came with a tiny screwdriver and actually had to be bolted around the wearer's wrist in a permanent fashion, presumably by the giver. Add to the weird factor that it was way on the pricey side, as well as the fact that you were strictly forbidden (by Cartier) from buying one for yourself (it had to be from your lover, being the Love bracelet), and you've got yourself the Decadent Years'...  read more

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Satellite of Love: Lou Reed joins Sirius radio

Perhaps it's acquired a few extra layers of crustiness over the years, but there's little doubt that Lou Reed's sweet, sensual voice has always had the power to stand on its own. When the man talks, it's the sound of pure New York City cool seeping out through his lips....  read more

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