Lou Reed died 10 years ago, in October 2013. But since then, he’s just become a more massive, more famous, more influential figure. His life is one of the strangest music stories ever. Will Hermes tells the whole epic tale in his new biography, Lou Reed: The King of New York. For most people, he’s the black-leather avant-garde rock & roll poet who symbolized NYC with his band the Velvet Underground, in the Warhol Factory scene of the 1960s. “I’m Waiting for the Man,” “Sister Ray,” “Sweet Jane” — these are...
- 10/5/2023
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
As a fan of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel "Dune," I've always been perplexed by the hostility to David Lynch's 1984 filmed adaptation. It is a wildly truncated take on the book, one that makes a couple of key alterations to the text, but I don't go to movies for slavish takes on great novels. I've already had that experience.
Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential" and George Stevens' "A Place in the Sun" (based on Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy") are distinctly different from their source material, and, thus, illuminating and thrilling in exciting new ways. It's akin to listening to the Cowboy Junkies' cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" -- I'm hearing a brilliant song for the first time.
While Lynch was able to place his singularly perverse stamp on Herbert's universe -- he was, unsurprisingly, quite fond of the twisted...
Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential" and George Stevens' "A Place in the Sun" (based on Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy") are distinctly different from their source material, and, thus, illuminating and thrilling in exciting new ways. It's akin to listening to the Cowboy Junkies' cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" -- I'm hearing a brilliant song for the first time.
While Lynch was able to place his singularly perverse stamp on Herbert's universe -- he was, unsurprisingly, quite fond of the twisted...
- 4/16/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
This Friday, March 24th, Rhino is releasing the Fully Re-Loaded Edition box set of The Velvet Underground’s 1970 classic Loaded. Featuring nearly all the music from the expansive 45th anniversary CD reissue from 2015, this new vinyl collection contains nine LPs and four 7-inches, and it’s limited to just 1,970 copies. Lucky for you, you don’t have to race fans to get in on this incredible boxed set, because we’re giving one away — for free.
Valued at $250, Loaded (Fully Re-Loaded Edition) includes three versions of the album: stereo, mono, and a “full-length” mix that boasts extended takes of “Sweet Jane,” “Rock & Roll,” and “New Age.” The 7-inches include the first-ever vinyl reissue of “Rock & Roll” and the first “Who Loves the Sun” reissue since ’70. There’s also the French single “Head Held High” and the German single “Sweet Jane.”
Also included are a number of demos, early versions, and alternate mixes.
Valued at $250, Loaded (Fully Re-Loaded Edition) includes three versions of the album: stereo, mono, and a “full-length” mix that boasts extended takes of “Sweet Jane,” “Rock & Roll,” and “New Age.” The 7-inches include the first-ever vinyl reissue of “Rock & Roll” and the first “Who Loves the Sun” reissue since ’70. There’s also the French single “Head Held High” and the German single “Sweet Jane.”
Also included are a number of demos, early versions, and alternate mixes.
- 3/23/2023
- by Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
“The artist is not with society, he’s different,” says Mary Woronov in the just-dropped trailer for Todd Haynes’s fantastic documentary, The Velvet Underground. It’s an apt pull-quote for a film that’s more about the band and the culture they arose from, reacted to and fermented than any rise/fall/redemption-styled rock narrative. Set against a few of Velvet hits the trailer gives a glimpse of the film’s elegant graphics, masterful use of archival (not just Vu concerts but experimental films of the day) and smart musicology. […]
The post Trailer Watch: Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Trailer Watch: Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/30/2021
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“The artist is not with society, he’s different,” says Mary Woronov in the just-dropped trailer for Todd Haynes’s fantastic documentary, The Velvet Underground. It’s an apt pull-quote for a film that’s more about the band and the culture they arose from, reacted to and fermented than any rise/fall/redemption-styled rock narrative. Set against a few of Velvet hits the trailer gives a glimpse of the film’s elegant graphics, masterful use of archival (not just Vu concerts but experimental films of the day) and smart musicology. […]
The post Trailer Watch: Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Trailer Watch: Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/30/2021
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Sitting somewhere between film and TV, Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, based on the books by R.L. Stine, tells one interconnected story over three different eras, each leaning into a different subgenre of horror. While the first two mostly work as standalones, the connective tissue is what makes these movies a bit more special and interesting and lends them to repeat viewings.
In Fear Street Part 2: 1978, we learn more about the past – bits about the history of Sarah Fier and how she might have managed to curse Shadyside and similarly how she might be stopped – by reuniting her remains with her severed hand.
But there are also lots of moments in Fear Street ‘78 that reference and enhance Fear Street 1994.
“There’s a lot across the three movies where we tried to recreate moments,” trilogy director Leigh Janiak tells Den of Geek.
“Obviously, there are songs that we revisit.
In Fear Street Part 2: 1978, we learn more about the past – bits about the history of Sarah Fier and how she might have managed to curse Shadyside and similarly how she might be stopped – by reuniting her remains with her severed hand.
But there are also lots of moments in Fear Street ‘78 that reference and enhance Fear Street 1994.
“There’s a lot across the three movies where we tried to recreate moments,” trilogy director Leigh Janiak tells Den of Geek.
“Obviously, there are songs that we revisit.
- 7/14/2021
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Miley Cyrus is having a different kind of viral moment than she has in the past. Thanks to the series of covers she’s done on The Tonight Show, iHeartRadio Festival, BBC Radio 1 lounge, and every other remote program she’s appeared on over the last couple of months, Cyrus has repeatedly garnered attention in the best way possible. Ranging from Blondie to Billie Eilish, the covers Cyrus has performed prove a point we’ve long known: She’s a powerhouse vocalist, dominating a lonely class outside of anything her peers are doing.
- 10/16/2020
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
On September 17th, 1987, about 100 people went to the Bluebird night club in Bloomington, Indiana, with no idea they were about to witness a truly historic moment in rock history.
Local band Ragin’ Texans was headlining that night, but it was two days before Farm Aid III at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, and John Mellencamp stopped by to stage an unannounced rehearsal show with his band.
Lou Reed was also booked for Farm Aid that year, and midway through Mellencamp’s set, he came out for an extended jam session...
Local band Ragin’ Texans was headlining that night, but it was two days before Farm Aid III at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, and John Mellencamp stopped by to stage an unannounced rehearsal show with his band.
Lou Reed was also booked for Farm Aid that year, and midway through Mellencamp’s set, he came out for an extended jam session...
- 8/12/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Lou Reed’s 1989 album New York will be given its first remastering in a massive deluxe edition by Rhino, out September 25th.
New York: Deluxe Edition includes three CDs, a two-lp set and a DVD, encased in a hardcover book with liner notes by David Fricke and essays by archivist Don Fleming. It was produced by Laurie Anderson, Fleming, Bill Ingot, Jason Stern and late producer Hal Willner.
The deluxe set consists of 26 unreleased recordings. The first CD makes up the remastered album, the second CD consists of live versions...
New York: Deluxe Edition includes three CDs, a two-lp set and a DVD, encased in a hardcover book with liner notes by David Fricke and essays by archivist Don Fleming. It was produced by Laurie Anderson, Fleming, Bill Ingot, Jason Stern and late producer Hal Willner.
The deluxe set consists of 26 unreleased recordings. The first CD makes up the remastered album, the second CD consists of live versions...
- 7/29/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Milton Quon, an animator who worked on “Fantasia” and “Dumbo,” died of natural causes at his home in Torrance, Ca., on June 18. He was 105.
His son, artist Mike Quon, told Variety that his father was drawing up until his last days. He also acted in movies including “Speed,” “Chill Factor,” “Sweet Jane,” “The Cat Killers” and the TV series “NYPD Blue” in addition to working as a Disney publicity executive. He described his “Speed” character in a 2005 interview as the “token Asian on the bus.”
Mike Quon said his father maintained a sense of humor throughout his life. When asked about the secret to his longevity, he would reply, “A good wife and Chinese food.”
Quon was born in Los Angeles as the eldest of eight children and the only son of immigrants from Canton, China. He was encouraged by an uncle to pursue a career in art, before receiving...
His son, artist Mike Quon, told Variety that his father was drawing up until his last days. He also acted in movies including “Speed,” “Chill Factor,” “Sweet Jane,” “The Cat Killers” and the TV series “NYPD Blue” in addition to working as a Disney publicity executive. He described his “Speed” character in a 2005 interview as the “token Asian on the bus.”
Mike Quon said his father maintained a sense of humor throughout his life. When asked about the secret to his longevity, he would reply, “A good wife and Chinese food.”
Quon was born in Los Angeles as the eldest of eight children and the only son of immigrants from Canton, China. He was encouraged by an uncle to pursue a career in art, before receiving...
- 7/3/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the National, TV on the Radio and more have created custom Tidal playlists of their favorite Velvet Underground songs for The Velvet Underground Experience, a multimedia exhibition on the band coming to New York that has officially partnered with Tidal.
The music that Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker made together, starting with their classic 1967 debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico, has been a crucial influence on generations of rock & roll dreamers and art-world rebels. Brian Eno famously said that...
The music that Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker made together, starting with their classic 1967 debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico, has been a crucial influence on generations of rock & roll dreamers and art-world rebels. Brian Eno famously said that...
- 10/4/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
On their debut LP, this fantastic L.A. band envelops singer Natalie Carol’s bracingly afflicted, mountain-vaulting dream-country yodel in scrappy, sprawling guitar poetry. Carol can evoke anyone from Grace Slick to to Neko Case to Florence Welch to Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries, giving the band’s California roots sound a kind of storm clouds-over-Laurel Canyon feel. “Chasing the Muse” is the weepy, earthen banger, with echoes of Nineties Radiohead in the stalactite guitars and Carol powering through a breakup with raw-boned gusto; “Supergiant” is fuzzed-up power-pop,...
- 7/18/2018
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Deafheaven, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
“Deafheaven fancy themselves as a modern-day Bad Brains, but instead of blending hardcore punk and reggae, they combine vicious black metal with expansive space rock,” writes Kory Grow. “Now they’ve returned to their original muse and are splitting the difference between the battering-ram riffage of Darkthrone and the sparkly, soaring melodies of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky…. It sounds much more organic this time, too, as the styles blend in and out of each other like a lava lamp.”
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“Deafheaven fancy themselves as a modern-day Bad Brains, but instead of blending hardcore punk and reggae, they combine vicious black metal with expansive space rock,” writes Kory Grow. “Now they’ve returned to their original muse and are splitting the difference between the battering-ram riffage of Darkthrone and the sparkly, soaring melodies of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky…. It sounds much more organic this time, too, as the styles blend in and out of each other like a lava lamp.”
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- 7/13/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Christopher R. Weingarten, Mosi Reeves, Jon Dolan and Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Mind blown! The Family, “Sweet Jane” has nothing sweet about it although at times it is bittersweet. The majority of it’s a raw, emotional, and at times brutal, exploration about all the ways people lie to themselves – and the consequences of doing so. If a psychological strip-search of these characters isn’t enough to reel you in, guess what? The mystery of “Adam” just got twistier than ever! The number of, “Oh my God!” moments while watching The Family, “Sweet Jane” are too many to count! Before I jump into this review, it occurs to me that we
The Family Explores the Dark & Murky River Called Denial...
The Family Explores the Dark & Murky River Called Denial...
- 4/22/2016
- by Joy D'Angelo
- TVovermind.com
This month Vulture will be publishing our critics’ year-end lists. Last week's lists included albums, art, and video games. This week we've covered comedy — sketches, specials, and podcasts — plus Margaret Lyons's top shows, Bilge Ebiri's top movies, and music videos and memes. Now it's on to late-night clips, comic books, graphic novels, and album reissues.1. The Velvet Underground — Loaded (1970) Lou Reed’s final album with Vu was dubbed Loaded for a reason: It’s stacked with the Factory house-band version of pop hits. The band makes its intentions clear right away, too, opening with one of rock’s most crucial trilogies to date (“Who Loves the Sun,” “Sweet Jane,” “Rock & Roll”). Loaded was among the first albums to signify a weird band making a play at commercialism — a phase in many acts’ careers in the decades to come — but it’s also one of greatest entries in that particular category.
- 12/16/2015
- by Jillian Mapes
- Vulture
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America's serial killers come out to play in American Horror Story Hotel's latest Halloween episode, Devil's Night...
This review contains spoilers.
5.4 Devil's Night
The announcement that Lady Gaga would play a prominent role in American Horror Story: Hotel was a bit of a divisive one. She was the centerpiece of a lot of the show's commercials, particularly one of her set to the memorable industrial tune Du Hast by Rammstein. No one knew what role she would play, or what her purpose would end up being, but everyone had an opinion about it, and most of those opinions seem to have been negative. It's easy to see why; Gaga's a pop star, not an actress. If she's been on stage or screen, it's been in the context of her musical talents first and foremost, not her ability to emote or cry on cue. I have to admit to having been pleasantly surprised.
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America's serial killers come out to play in American Horror Story Hotel's latest Halloween episode, Devil's Night...
This review contains spoilers.
5.4 Devil's Night
The announcement that Lady Gaga would play a prominent role in American Horror Story: Hotel was a bit of a divisive one. She was the centerpiece of a lot of the show's commercials, particularly one of her set to the memorable industrial tune Du Hast by Rammstein. No one knew what role she would play, or what her purpose would end up being, but everyone had an opinion about it, and most of those opinions seem to have been negative. It's easy to see why; Gaga's a pop star, not an actress. If she's been on stage or screen, it's been in the context of her musical talents first and foremost, not her ability to emote or cry on cue. I have to admit to having been pleasantly surprised.
- 10/30/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Music and Sex: Scenes from a life - A novel in progress by Roman AkLeff (previous installment can be read here)
Walter's biggest adjustment to college life was realizing that he wasn't the hot-shit intellectual he'd thought he was. In high school he hadn't been the smartest guy, but he'd felt like he was up there in at least the top five percent. Here he felt like an idiot at times. Senior year in high school he'd officially been the best player on the chess team, and moreover, first board on the first-place team in their league that year. At Columbia, he lost 24 consecutive speed games to one guy and never managed better than a draw with anybody in the chess club before, feeling frustrated and embarrassed, he stopped attending meetings.
He couldn't stop attending classes, though. In the only one he was taking that wasn't just for freshman, Political Theory,...
Walter's biggest adjustment to college life was realizing that he wasn't the hot-shit intellectual he'd thought he was. In high school he hadn't been the smartest guy, but he'd felt like he was up there in at least the top five percent. Here he felt like an idiot at times. Senior year in high school he'd officially been the best player on the chess team, and moreover, first board on the first-place team in their league that year. At Columbia, he lost 24 consecutive speed games to one guy and never managed better than a draw with anybody in the chess club before, feeling frustrated and embarrassed, he stopped attending meetings.
He couldn't stop attending classes, though. In the only one he was taking that wasn't just for freshman, Political Theory,...
- 1/8/2015
- by RomanAkLeff
- www.culturecatch.com
The CW’s first major crossover between Arrow and The Flash has it all: epic fight sequences, big secrets, not one but two worthy villains and Felicity Smoak in a PG-13 situation.
Yes, we’ll explain the 911-level emergency plaguing everyone’s favorite It girl in just a moment. But first, the cast and executive producers preview the strange and delightful interactions between the shows’ crimefighting teams, the dangerous enemy putting someone’s beloved in jeopardy and the worst-named villain ever.
Oh, and star Stephen Amell and the creators also weigh in on a not-so-little Arrow surprise that happens on...
Yes, we’ll explain the 911-level emergency plaguing everyone’s favorite It girl in just a moment. But first, the cast and executive producers preview the strange and delightful interactions between the shows’ crimefighting teams, the dangerous enemy putting someone’s beloved in jeopardy and the worst-named villain ever.
Oh, and star Stephen Amell and the creators also weigh in on a not-so-little Arrow surprise that happens on...
- 12/1/2014
- TVLine.com
Here’s something to get Outlander fans’ kilts a-twirling: Starz has released a brief-but-tantalizing video sneak peek at the rest of Season 1.
In the 20-second clip, scenes from the second half of Diana Gabaldon’s epic novel flash by while Colum’s voice warns brother Dougal that his actions will cost him his head “right onto a pike.”
Photos What TVLine Is Thankful For: A Good Surprise, Homeland Revival, Outlander Is In and More
Meanwhile, Claire is led in chains, Jamie bleeds on the ground, Geillis looks worried, various people fight, Claire cries that she “never counted on loving” her husband,...
In the 20-second clip, scenes from the second half of Diana Gabaldon’s epic novel flash by while Colum’s voice warns brother Dougal that his actions will cost him his head “right onto a pike.”
Photos What TVLine Is Thankful For: A Good Surprise, Homeland Revival, Outlander Is In and More
Meanwhile, Claire is led in chains, Jamie bleeds on the ground, Geillis looks worried, various people fight, Claire cries that she “never counted on loving” her husband,...
- 12/1/2014
- TVLine.com
It’s official: The Walking Dead‘s Daryl Dixon is more Team Carol than Team Rick.
Related Walking Dead Midseason Finale Post Mortem: [Spoiler] Sounds Off on Killer Twist — ‘I Did Not See It Coming’
Following Sunday’s deadly midseason finale, series creator Robert Kirkman finally put the long-standing rumors about Norman Reedus’ character’s sexuality to bed during his appearance on Talking Dead.
“In the letter column of the comic book that I do, I mentioned that there was a possibility early on about making Daryl Dixon’s character gay,” Kirkman explained. “I just wanted to clarify that the...
Related Walking Dead Midseason Finale Post Mortem: [Spoiler] Sounds Off on Killer Twist — ‘I Did Not See It Coming’
Following Sunday’s deadly midseason finale, series creator Robert Kirkman finally put the long-standing rumors about Norman Reedus’ character’s sexuality to bed during his appearance on Talking Dead.
“In the letter column of the comic book that I do, I mentioned that there was a possibility early on about making Daryl Dixon’s character gay,” Kirkman explained. “I just wanted to clarify that the...
- 12/1/2014
- TVLine.com
Warning: The following Q&A contains major spoilers from Sunday’s Walking Dead. Proceed at your own risk.
Well, Rick’s plan worked: Both Carol and Beth were “discharged” from Grady Memorial in The Walking Dead‘s midseason finale Sunday.
But only one of the women — professional death-cheater Carol — left the hospital with a pulse.
Sadly, Beth — played by series regular Emily Kinney — was shot to death by the hospital’s self-appointed dictator Dawn before she made it out of the building. Daryl, in turn, whacked Beth’s murderer in retaliation.
Below, an emotional Kinney — who got choked up several...
Well, Rick’s plan worked: Both Carol and Beth were “discharged” from Grady Memorial in The Walking Dead‘s midseason finale Sunday.
But only one of the women — professional death-cheater Carol — left the hospital with a pulse.
Sadly, Beth — played by series regular Emily Kinney — was shot to death by the hospital’s self-appointed dictator Dawn before she made it out of the building. Daryl, in turn, whacked Beth’s murderer in retaliation.
Below, an emotional Kinney — who got choked up several...
- 12/1/2014
- TVLine.com
The Flash‘s Gideon is… Black Canary??
TVLine has confirmed that Morena Baccarin — whose previous voice work includes such DC Comics characters as Dinah Lance (in the animated Justice League series), Talia al Ghul (Son of Batman) and Cheetah (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) — is voicing S.T.A.R. Labs honcho Dr. Harrison Wells’ AI assistant/confidante.
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Gideon was first featured in the Nov. 25 episode of the CW freshman, when Dr. Wells reevaluated their plan for test “subject” Barry Allen, as regards his...
TVLine has confirmed that Morena Baccarin — whose previous voice work includes such DC Comics characters as Dinah Lance (in the animated Justice League series), Talia al Ghul (Son of Batman) and Cheetah (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) — is voicing S.T.A.R. Labs honcho Dr. Harrison Wells’ AI assistant/confidante.
TVLine reader Alex, please come forward to collect your 250 Power User Points (zero cash value).
Gideon was first featured in the Nov. 25 episode of the CW freshman, when Dr. Wells reevaluated their plan for test “subject” Barry Allen, as regards his...
- 11/26/2014
- TVLine.com
Nicholas Sparks latest romantic flick The Best Of Me has finally proven that the same, formulaic love story doesn’t always end up successful.
The Best Of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two high school sweethearts that run back into each other after returning to their hometown after 21 years for a funeral. Soon, their romance reignites, and the two seem to finally be back on track. The only problem is that the trouble that caused their initial split begins to loom. Can their love survive another trip down memory lane?
If you’ve ever seen a Nicholas Spark film you already know the answer to the above question.
Let me start off by saying that I do not hate the work of Nicholas Sparks. I enjoyed The Notebook. I might not have gone gaga over it like the rest of the world, but I really enjoyed it.
The Best Of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two high school sweethearts that run back into each other after returning to their hometown after 21 years for a funeral. Soon, their romance reignites, and the two seem to finally be back on track. The only problem is that the trouble that caused their initial split begins to loom. Can their love survive another trip down memory lane?
If you’ve ever seen a Nicholas Spark film you already know the answer to the above question.
Let me start off by saying that I do not hate the work of Nicholas Sparks. I enjoyed The Notebook. I might not have gone gaga over it like the rest of the world, but I really enjoyed it.
- 10/17/2014
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Word of Lou Reed’s death spread across the Internet on Sunday. For me, it was Sunday afternoon, so I can’t make this allusion. Nor will I call it a perfect day.
That’s what Lou Reed was to me. From the time his first album came out, he provided not only a soundtrack for my life, but a running commentary. His New York-inflected nasal vocals seemed to perfectly capture my own yearning for something I couldn’t define, but wanted desperately.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, this made me unusual, especially in Ohio, where I lived. Lou had a hit in the mid-1970s, but there still weren’t a lot of people who would admit to liking him. I can only believe that people bought “Walk on the Wild Side” without acknowledging that they knew it was about drag queens.
He wrote about drag queens,...
That’s what Lou Reed was to me. From the time his first album came out, he provided not only a soundtrack for my life, but a running commentary. His New York-inflected nasal vocals seemed to perfectly capture my own yearning for something I couldn’t define, but wanted desperately.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, this made me unusual, especially in Ohio, where I lived. Lou had a hit in the mid-1970s, but there still weren’t a lot of people who would admit to liking him. I can only believe that people bought “Walk on the Wild Side” without acknowledging that they knew it was about drag queens.
He wrote about drag queens,...
- 11/1/2013
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
In 1972, a couple of years after the Velvet Underground imploded, Lou Reed, struggling to latch onto his identity as a solo artist, kicked off a period of rapid-fire image transformation roughly parallel to the more high-profile one that David Bowie was enacting. For three or four years, Reed tried on his outlaw personas like costumes from hell (Iggy-ish gutter hunk, kohl-eyed leather-bar rock & roll animal, cropped-blond ambisexual mannequin). It was his way of tapping into the liberating boundary-bashing of the post-’60s wasteland. During that period, Reed tried to live up to the ideal of being a “transformer” (the title of his second,...
- 10/30/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York, Oct 28: Lou Reed, one of the pioneers of rock music and lead singer of Velvet Underground band has died on Long Island here. He was 71.
He died Sunday. Although the cause of his death is unclear, Reed underwent a liver transplant in May, reports rollingstone.com.
A massively influential songwriter and guitarist, he helped shape nearly 50 years of rock music.
Some of his landmark songs are "Sister Ray", "Sweet Jane", "All Tomorrow's Parties", "What Goes On" and "Lisa Says".
Ians...
He died Sunday. Although the cause of his death is unclear, Reed underwent a liver transplant in May, reports rollingstone.com.
A massively influential songwriter and guitarist, he helped shape nearly 50 years of rock music.
Some of his landmark songs are "Sister Ray", "Sweet Jane", "All Tomorrow's Parties", "What Goes On" and "Lisa Says".
Ians...
- 10/28/2013
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Not that Lou Reed would have recognized me (though I was introduced to him once, which I'll get to), but he and his body of work intersected my life in more personal ways than that of any other major rock star. So this isn't an obituary so much as a series of memories. For obituaries, check out Gary Graff in Billboard and Jon Dolan in Rolling Stone.
Lou was from Long Island and I was from Long Island. At the most basic level, this meant that, growing up listening to Long Island radio stations, I heard lots of Lou even when he was no longer especially fashionable (between about 1976 and 1981). Thus, while most of the world ignored his 1978 album Street Hassle, I heard much of it on Wlir and Wbab, and bought it – my first Lou album. He had started out underground in the Velvet Underground, had managed to claw...
Lou was from Long Island and I was from Long Island. At the most basic level, this meant that, growing up listening to Long Island radio stations, I heard lots of Lou even when he was no longer especially fashionable (between about 1976 and 1981). Thus, while most of the world ignored his 1978 album Street Hassle, I heard much of it on Wlir and Wbab, and bought it – my first Lou album. He had started out underground in the Velvet Underground, had managed to claw...
- 10/28/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Legendary rock musician Lou Reed died on Sunday (Oct. 27) at the age of 71, but his influence on the music scene and American culture will live on forever.
The Velvet Underground leader and rock pioneer introduced avant garde rock and pop art to mainstream music. He also famously collaborated with Andy Warhol, and the band joined Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
Reed led Velvet Undergound through four albums and numerous line-up changes, before moving on to lead a successful solo career.
Here are some of Reed's best TV performances:
Filmed for the TV show "ABC In Concert," this intimate, stripped-back, in-studio performance by Reed and an accompanying guitarist is of "Cold Black Sea" from the album "Magic & Loss."
Reed made an appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman" in 1993 to perform "Sweet Jane."
He returned to "Letterman" in 2008 to play "Caroline Says."
Here's a clip from Reed's appearance on "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with......
The Velvet Underground leader and rock pioneer introduced avant garde rock and pop art to mainstream music. He also famously collaborated with Andy Warhol, and the band joined Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
Reed led Velvet Undergound through four albums and numerous line-up changes, before moving on to lead a successful solo career.
Here are some of Reed's best TV performances:
Filmed for the TV show "ABC In Concert," this intimate, stripped-back, in-studio performance by Reed and an accompanying guitarist is of "Cold Black Sea" from the album "Magic & Loss."
Reed made an appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman" in 1993 to perform "Sweet Jane."
He returned to "Letterman" in 2008 to play "Caroline Says."
Here's a clip from Reed's appearance on "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with......
- 10/27/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Lou Reed, who died Sunday at age 71, came to fame as the frontman for the iconic 1960s group The Velvet Underground before embarking on a solo career. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 With The Velvet Underground -- which started out as the house band for Andy Warhol's mixed-media studio The Factory -- Reed sang and wrote such landmark songs as "Heroin," "Sister Ray," "Sweet Jane," "Rock & Roll," "Venus in Furs," "All Tomorrow's Parties," "What Goes On" and "Lisa Says." After exiting the group in 1970, the acidic Reed perfected his sparse,
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- 10/27/2013
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lou Reed has died at 71, according to a report from Rolling Stone. No cause of death has been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May. The tremendously influential guitarist, singer, and songwriter, was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. He founded the Velvet Underground, which served as the house band at Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory. Their debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico was not a commercial success when it was released in 1967, but it was later celebrated as one of the most significant albums of all time. Reed sang and wrote many of the band's biggest songs, including "Heroin," "Sister Ray," "Sweet Jane," "Rock and Roll," "Venus in Furs," "All Tomorrow's Parties," "What Goes On" and "Lisa Says." The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Reed left the band in 1970 and went on...
- 10/27/2013
- by Margaret Hartmann
- Vulture
Zemeckis’ ‘Flight’ is no Thriller, just Lazy 12-step Evangelism
In Hollywood, is AA the new Scientology? Director Robert Zemeckis’ attempt at a “grown up” movie, Flight has the propagandistic tone and telos you’d expect from one of those Ayn Rand ‘Atlas’ movies, or some religious ministry B-movie that uses familiar genre devices to make the evangelistic medicine go down — except here we have Hollywood A-listers, a big-budget action set piece, and an unquestioned allegiance to the 12-step platitudes of Alcoholics Anonymous (the latter courtesy of writer John Gatins). Zemeckis seems to have climbed down the beanstalk from motion-capture land (The Polar Express) with total amnesia regarding how flesh-and-blood human beings actually behave. He applies a product-placement aesthetic to booze and drug use: It’s all staged and cheated for the camera.
‘Flight’’s story of an ace commercial jet pilot (Denzel Washington) who miraculously saves a plane full of people during a crash,...
In Hollywood, is AA the new Scientology? Director Robert Zemeckis’ attempt at a “grown up” movie, Flight has the propagandistic tone and telos you’d expect from one of those Ayn Rand ‘Atlas’ movies, or some religious ministry B-movie that uses familiar genre devices to make the evangelistic medicine go down — except here we have Hollywood A-listers, a big-budget action set piece, and an unquestioned allegiance to the 12-step platitudes of Alcoholics Anonymous (the latter courtesy of writer John Gatins). Zemeckis seems to have climbed down the beanstalk from motion-capture land (The Polar Express) with total amnesia regarding how flesh-and-blood human beings actually behave. He applies a product-placement aesthetic to booze and drug use: It’s all staged and cheated for the camera.
‘Flight’’s story of an ace commercial jet pilot (Denzel Washington) who miraculously saves a plane full of people during a crash,...
- 10/30/2012
- by Ryan Brown
- IONCINEMA.com
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 Lou Reed's 10-song tragedy captures all the greatness of this bleak and beautiful album
• Click here for details on the Curzon on Demand streaming scheme
• Sign in to Guardian Extra to get the promotional code and watch Lou Reed's Berlin on Curzon on Demand
Was there ever a more deliriously miserable album than Berlin, Lou Reed's anguished 10-song tragedy about two star-crossed junkies and what became of them? Recorded in 1973, when the singer was on the cusp of mainstream stardom following Walk on the Wild Side, it was the record that almost broke him. Berlin was a financial flop and a critical calamity; dismissed as "a disaster" by Rolling Stone magazine. Three decades on, the same publication was hailing...
Julian Schnabel's film of a 2006 performance of Lou Reed's 10-song tragedy captures all the greatness of this bleak and beautiful album
• Click here for details on the Curzon on Demand streaming scheme
• Sign in to Guardian Extra to get the promotional code and watch Lou Reed's Berlin on Curzon on Demand
Was there ever a more deliriously miserable album than Berlin, Lou Reed's anguished 10-song tragedy about two star-crossed junkies and what became of them? Recorded in 1973, when the singer was on the cusp of mainstream stardom following Walk on the Wild Side, it was the record that almost broke him. Berlin was a financial flop and a critical calamity; dismissed as "a disaster" by Rolling Stone magazine. Three decades on, the same publication was hailing...
- 4/14/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Oct 30: American heavy metal band Metallica has associated with rock musician Lou Reed for new album 'Lulu'.
Both Metallica and Lou Reed have produced the collaborative effort which will release Monday.
This is not the first time that the two have worked together. The metal band backed Reed while performing the 'Sweet Jane' at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary concert in 2009.
Ians...
Both Metallica and Lou Reed have produced the collaborative effort which will release Monday.
This is not the first time that the two have worked together. The metal band backed Reed while performing the 'Sweet Jane' at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary concert in 2009.
Ians...
- 10/30/2011
- by Diksha Singh
- RealBollywood.com
Look, I loved Metallica, prior to the '90s. And I deeply love Lou Reed, even into some of his later and much-maligned solo work. But their performance of "Sweet Jane" at... whatever the hell it was originally performed at, was just terrible. So I've been somewhat apprehensive at the prospect of their new collaborative project, Lulu. And at the risk of furthering my reputation as a deeply cynical, negative bastard, judging from this newly released preview, it's going to suck. The first time I heard this, I thought it was a parody. Then I thought it was some kind of other fake. But it's real. Horribly, horribly real. So it's basically exactly what everybody assumed it would be: Lou deadpans some fake-poetry over a plodding hunger-dunger-dang riff, then James Hetfield comes in and starts braying. Guh. It's too bad downloading killed the [...]...
- 9/19/2011
- Nerve
Not a headline I ever imagined writing as I grumpily listened to And Justice For All... for the thousandth time in high school. (I'm not sure I knew who Lou Reed was.) But, yes, Metallica has recorded an album with Lou Reed, after playing "Sweet Jane" with the downtown legend at a 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame event. The album has no release date, but Rolling Stone says it sounds like "a raging union of [Reed's] 1973 noir classic, Berlin, and Metallica's '86 crusher, Master of Puppets. " (With all due respect to David Fricke, imagining what that sounds like is not as easy as imagining that David Fricke hasn't listened to Master of Puppets in a while.) As a fan of both artists, I can't see this being a natural pairing. Reed likes a groove, and Metallica was always better at [...]...
- 6/16/2011
- Nerve
One particular track on the soundtrack to Due Date, the new road trip comedy with Robert Downey, Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, exerted a curious fascination for me – This is Why I’m Hot, by the modest Mims. Mind, it wasn’t so much the song itself as one specific lyric, which (if I heard it correctly) sounded very much like: “I’m representing York”. Now, if that is indeed the correct interpretation, then I can only wholeheartedly applaud the sentiment. It’s about time the northern cities of the United Kingdom were celebrated in contemporary song. One minor quibble would be Mims’ neglect to devote a verse to the prodigious merits of the Jorvik Viking Centre, but you can’t have everything, can you?
Indeed not. Just ask Christophe Beck. His is the name you will see attached to the ‘music by’ credit if you go and catch Rdj and...
Indeed not. Just ask Christophe Beck. His is the name you will see attached to the ‘music by’ credit if you go and catch Rdj and...
- 11/14/2010
- by Paul A. Martin
- Movie-moron.com
Filed under: Scenes We Love, Cinematical
I love a good cover song. Of course, most of them suffer by comparison, but occasionally there is a song that manages to become its own original creation. Today's nominee to the history of Scenes (Songs) We Love is one of those songs: the Cowboy Junkies take on Sweet Jane from 'Natural Born Killers'. For some, the thought that anything could come close to Lou Reed's original creation is pure heresy, but I'm a sucker for a song that tries to make something their own, and I think the Junkies' manage to pull it off.
Oliver Stone's film was the story of a pair of serial killers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) hacking their away across America while becoming media darlings, and the film included some truly "out there" performances from Robert Downey Jr. as a sleazy media type, Tommy Lee Jones,...
I love a good cover song. Of course, most of them suffer by comparison, but occasionally there is a song that manages to become its own original creation. Today's nominee to the history of Scenes (Songs) We Love is one of those songs: the Cowboy Junkies take on Sweet Jane from 'Natural Born Killers'. For some, the thought that anything could come close to Lou Reed's original creation is pure heresy, but I'm a sucker for a song that tries to make something their own, and I think the Junkies' manage to pull it off.
Oliver Stone's film was the story of a pair of serial killers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) hacking their away across America while becoming media darlings, and the film included some truly "out there" performances from Robert Downey Jr. as a sleazy media type, Tommy Lee Jones,...
- 9/20/2010
- by Jessica Barnes
- Cinematical
Subject: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 29-year old American actor
Date of Assessment: July 16, 2010
Positive Buzzwords: Diversity, initiative, everyman
Negative Buzzwords: Child star, pothead, G.I. Joe
The Case: Finally, here's a much welcome (if temporary) break in our chain of negative assessments. After all, going against the trend is an act that's wholeheartedly encouraged by our current subject, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (hereinafter known as "Jgl"), who has overcome the Hollywood odds in a huge way. Not only has he navigated a successful move from television to movies, but he's also conquered the former-child-star stigma (not to mention losing that awful hair) too. And as audiences have all-too-commonly observed, most child actors greet professional rejection by burying themselves within a circle of enablers before ceremoniously commencing a downward spiral of entitlement and hard drug use. Not the case where Jgl is concerned.
Instead, Jgl has bucked the trend by consistently working since the age of seven.
Date of Assessment: July 16, 2010
Positive Buzzwords: Diversity, initiative, everyman
Negative Buzzwords: Child star, pothead, G.I. Joe
The Case: Finally, here's a much welcome (if temporary) break in our chain of negative assessments. After all, going against the trend is an act that's wholeheartedly encouraged by our current subject, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (hereinafter known as "Jgl"), who has overcome the Hollywood odds in a huge way. Not only has he navigated a successful move from television to movies, but he's also conquered the former-child-star stigma (not to mention losing that awful hair) too. And as audiences have all-too-commonly observed, most child actors greet professional rejection by burying themselves within a circle of enablers before ceremoniously commencing a downward spiral of entitlement and hard drug use. Not the case where Jgl is concerned.
Instead, Jgl has bucked the trend by consistently working since the age of seven.
- 7/16/2010
- by Agent Bedhead
Todd Williamson/WireImage Va va voom! Hot mama Marley Shelton — who’s due to deliver her daughter this month — looked ravishing in red at Wednesday evening’s A Perfect Getaway premiere.
The actress, 35, plays Cleo in the film, which also stars fellow celebrity mom Milla Jovovich and hits theaters Friday.
Baby girl will be the first child for Marley and husband Beau Flynn.
On her left wrist, Marley wears Melinda Maria’s Mini Pod Bangles with White Diamond Cz ($150). On her right wrist, she wears the company’s Infinity Pod Bangles with White Diamond Cz ($250). In her ears are Melinda Maria’s Sweet Jane Earrings in Canary Diamond Cz ($585).
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The actress, 35, plays Cleo in the film, which also stars fellow celebrity mom Milla Jovovich and hits theaters Friday.
Baby girl will be the first child for Marley and husband Beau Flynn.
On her left wrist, Marley wears Melinda Maria’s Mini Pod Bangles with White Diamond Cz ($150). On her right wrist, she wears the company’s Infinity Pod Bangles with White Diamond Cz ($250). In her ears are Melinda Maria’s Sweet Jane Earrings in Canary Diamond Cz ($585).
Click below for a side view!
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic Posted in Celeb Style, Main, Moms-to-be, Top News...
- 8/6/2009
- by Sarah
- People - CelebrityBabies
Feature writer Tony Gayton is venturing into television, teaming with Emmy-winning producer Paula Weinstein to develop a military drama project for NBC and NBC Studios. Gayton (Murder by Numbers) and his brother, writer-director Joe Gayton, will pen the script for the project centered on a U.S. Marine unit stationed in Iraq. The two will executive produce the show with Weinstein and Len Amato. Tony Gayton's writing credits also include the 2002 feature The Salton Sea. Joe Gayton most recently wrote and directed the 1998 feature Sweet Jane. Tony and Joe Gayton are repped by Agency for the Performing Arts' Matt Ochacher and David Saunders. Weinstein, whose feature credits include Analyze This and The Perfect Storm, won an Emmy for the 1995 telefilm Truman. On the TV side, Weinstein and Amato most recently executive produced the HBO telefilm Iron Jawed Angels, starring Hilary Swank.
- 10/6/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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