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Metallica And Lou Reed Stream 'Lulu'

Posted 10-20-11 by
Tags: Lou Reed, Metallica

While it might not rival Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music in sheer audacity, noise and head-scratching aim, the abrasive collaboration between Metallica and Reed, Lulu, is streaming now for those who wish to weigh in on the album's merits before its official release date on November 1.

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TAS Interview: Laurie Anderson

Posted 9-29-10 by
Tags: Antony Hegarty, Four Tet, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed

Genre-defying musician and theatrical innovator Laurie Anderson's boundary-blurring career has gently zigzagged from a left-field radio hit ("O Superman") to monumental stage shows (Home of the Brave) to recent collaborations with husband Lou Reed and free jazz maestro John Zorn. Anderson recently spoke to The Alternate Side about a variety of wayward topics, including her new album, Homeland, and her latest multimedia stage rumination, Delusion, currently playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Sunday, October 3. 

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Gorillaz Animate Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg and De La Soul For New Video

Posted 6-15-10 by
Tags: Damon Albarn, De La Soul, Gorillaz, Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg

Gorillaz released their new, Jamie Hewlett-directed animated video for "On Melancholy Hill," which features Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg and De La Soul, on iTunes today and will release the single in a digital bundle in late July with remixes from Japanese Popstars, She Is Danger and more. Plus graphic novelist Alan Moore of Watchman fame abandons plans to work with Hewlett and Damon Albarn on a new opera.

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