A newly-discovered genus of spider has been named after rocker Lou Reed. An international group of biologists recently stumbled across the never-before-seen velvet spide...
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Xan Brooks reveals the second of seven films to be offered for free to Guardian Extra members through Curzon on Demand. Julian Schnabel's film of a 2006 performance of Lo...
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From Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice" and Lou Reed's "Underneath the Bottle" to Bob Dylan's "Moonshiner," Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" and more, the 411 staff readies for...
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Iconic outsider Lou Reed turns 70 years old this March. Notably, through his good and bad creative times, Reed has always seemed to keep Lou Reed in the forefront of what...
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25 years after his death, a new online film reduces Warhol to trashy cypher – but his art was subtle and profoundAndy Warhol died a quarter of a century ago today, ...
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photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin "Not even kidding. lou reed watched @dasracist perform tonight & flipped the fuck out. at carnegie hall. how was your night?" - El-P "Th...
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Young Vancouver dude Mac DeMarco is about to release his album Rock And Roll Night Club next month. Below, listen to the tweaked-out weirdo-blues joint “I’m A...
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Even if you like the right music at the wrong time, there's never a wrong time to discover Joni MitchellI liked all the right music. Just not always at the right time. Bo...
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This thing just keeps growing:WHO: Philip Glass, Lou Reed, James Blake, Das Racist, Antony, Laurie Anderson, Stephin Merritt, Rahzel and Dechen Shak-Dagsay WHAT: 22nd Ann...
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Music legends Lou Reed Michael Stipe and Paul Simon turned out in New York on Sunday night 29Jan12 to celebrate composer PHILIP GLASS 75th birthday The classical writer w...
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Picking 12 acts to play A Room for London wasn't the hard part. For starters, how do you get a piano into a boat on a roof?The Roi des Belges began its life last summer i...
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Seb Hunter is making a film based on this unloved glam rock folly. But could crowd-sourcing mean curtains for the concept of 'soundtracks for imaginary movies'?Like Dave ...
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Lou Reed at Prospect Park in 2011 (more by David Andrako) When we first announced this year's Tibet House US benefit, which is happening on February 13 at Carnegie Hall, ...
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The Velvet Underground have sued the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to stop using the iconic banana for commercial purposes such iPad covers and such. From...
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Velvet Underground founders Lou Reed and John Cale have filed a lawsuit against officials at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over the iconic banana image t...
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