I said recently that TwentyFourBit wouldn’t be the place for Cribs-esque posts, but screw it ‘cause some of these living music legend real estate stories are actually kind of fun. So here’s this week’s contribution:Björk may be moving out of her...
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Lou Reed keeps adding more and more chapters to his long and storied career. This time the Godfather of everything cool is building on his legendary (infamous?) album Metal Machine Music .Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio has just digitally released a new non-vocal album The Creation Of The Universe . The album was recorded live over two nights at L.A.'s Redcat.The ambient artsy recording featu...
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Lou Reed goes avant-garde. The Creation of The Universe recorded with the Metal Machine Trio will be released as a digtial downlooad (MP3 }| FLAC) and CD:We have formed a recording unit Called BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE. We intend to put out different types of my music - from industrial to meditative to songs and all subway stops in between. Our first release is a live recording of 2 great nights l...
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MUSIC NEWS - It's been thirty five years since former Velvet Underground leader, Lou Reed 's dark masterpiece Berlin album was released to the music world. At the time, critics didn't understand, but the album's storyline with paranoia, drugs and suicide became a personal soundtrack for many young people going through the difficult times of the period. Of course, it's now considered one ...
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We've mentioned Julian Schnabel's documentary Lou Reed's Berlin along with Lou Reed's diss of Lester Bangs . The film's out this fall, the diss largely forgotten. Anyhow, Lou Reed's Berlin includes a December 2006 performance of the 1973 album at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. Matador's releasing the accompanying soundtrack under the descriptive title Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse . The...
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Don't want to say too much here, but the Julius Schnabel directed concert video of Lou Reed's 2007 performance of Berlin is out. I am not sure I could have applauded if I were in the audience--but probably would have wept. This is a great art song cycle. Lovely performance by Antony. This is painful, powerful stuff and ample justification for giving Mr. Reed a lot of slack.
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The first time I heard Lou Reed it was "Rock and Roll Animal". At the time, I thought he was the best. He was better than Bowie, T.Rex, Iggy....all his contemporaries. The album had the best musicianship of the three by far...at the time. (I can see now Bowie had some great musicians working for him as well) In those days NO ONE liked Lou in my neighborhood. From what I read later, and seeing ...
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So the ex-Velvet Underground god; Lou Reed recorded and released this album originally back in 1973 and it flopped. Rolling Stone's Stephen Davis described the album as akin to "taking the listener into a distorted and degenerate demi-monde of paranoia, schizophrenia, degradation,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the MCMB website for full links, free music, great video...
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Andrew Chambless writes: We were on the forefront of punk before there was punk. We rocked living rooms, basements and backyards from Newark to Wilmington, whenever anybody's parents went away. The band formed in 1976, when Rob, Andrew and Andy took a tape recorder in Andy's living room and pretended we were a rock band called Piss On Your Grandmother – the most threatening name we could.
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Hey everyone! In narrative form, here's my experience seeing Lou mothereffing Reed on this past Sunday. So my friend, Jeff, and I arrived at the concert at 7:30. We were told that Reed's sound check was running late so the opening would be delayed. Typical. So they finally opened the doors when the sound check was done. We got to our seats in front row, second balcony (great view).Shortly after...
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We posted the audio version of "Caroline Says, Pt. II ." It's from Lou Reed's December '06 performance of Berlin at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. As mentioned, Matador's releasing said concert as a 14-track soundtrack under the descriptive title Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse to accompany Julian Schnabel's documentary Lou Reed's Berlin . Here we have the video take of that same performa...
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My friends and I have begun a psuedo book club. I say “psuedo” because we discuss more than books and in fact have yet to discuss. Rather, our topics have included, justifying the absence of god to methodists, deconstructing environmentalism from a purely biological viewpoint, and discussing Douglas Haddow’s “Hipster: The Dead End of Western [...]
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Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby...maybe they're right. Today, my hometown (well close enough) Cincy Bengals matched up against the favored Baltimore Ravens - and pulled out another win!! They are now 5 - 1 and the only tem in the NFL to have beaten all the teams in their division once. That's all good, but there was additional motivation going on today. Some of you may have seen that the Bengals ...
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Imagine the wiry filament of energy Perry Farrell meeting the one-and-only Lou Reed for the first time. This 'meeting-of-minds' occurred after Lou's Keynote Speech at the SXSW convention center Thursday, March 13th.Perry FarrellLou and Perry right after the interview. Photo by Faith-Ann Young for MOG.Keep in mind- since Lou can be sensitive to media- this is a rare occurrence to capture him tal...
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...Lou Reed was on fire when he cut Transformer...
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