Rachel Humphreys and the art of the muse
Remember the women.
Lou Reed
When The Velvet Underground survived a week of shows without Lou Reed and Nico in 1966
The Velvet Underground played Chicago in June 1966 without Reed or Nico.
New York United: The day Talking Heads and Lou Reed recorded ‘Femme Fatale’ together
Today, the track remains a strange footnote.
Scott Lavene, the best singer-songwriter that you’ve never heard of*, gets his Lou Reed on
*Yet I loudly declared singer songwriter Scott Lavene’s 2019 album Broke to be my top favorite album of that year, and even though it’s not…
Genya Ravan’s duet with Lou Reed
Lou Reed and Genya Ravan performing ‘Aye Co’lorado’ at the Bottom Line In 1978, Lou Reed and Genya Ravan appeared on one another’s solo albums.…
John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker (and Lou Reed) play Jim Carroll’s ‘People Who Died’
Sterling Morrison died on August 30, 1995, just after he turned 53. A few days later, the movie Antártida, with music by John Cale, hit…
What Mark E. Smith liked: Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, Philip K. Dick & Kurt Vonnegut, a list
When asked what he would do if he was ever elected Prime minister, Mark E. Smith replied: “I’d halve the price of cigarettes, double the…
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes art project featuring David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed
Like three of the four members of Talking Heads, Bobby Grossman had been studying at the Rhode Island School of Design before vamoosing down to…
The superstars of Lou Reed’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side’
The Portuguese release of ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ (via Discogs) In 1993, the BBC documentary series Arena devoted four episodes to “Tales of Rock…
Here’s your new ringtone: Lou Reed hilariously reads X-rated porn advertising copy (NSFW)
In 2004 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders released his photography book XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits, which showed various porn stars in two states, wearing clothes and not wearing…