Lou Reed

News and Notes

October 31, 2011

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No Country

It’s time to reboot the Steve Jobs machine, which means I need to clean off my desktop. Here’s what I am looking at on Halloween morning. Loutallica Do you remember last week when I (and the rest of the world) shredded the Lou Reed / Metallica collaboration? This headline in Spin Magazine “Metallica Already…
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Listen to the Metallica and Lou Reed collaboration, Lulu

October 20, 2011

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No Country

If you are a big fan of my generally super-positive blog posts, then you might just want to skip past this one. I have tried to bring myself to write about this for months now, but I always stop because…. I don’t really care. I lost a lot of respect for Metallica when they…
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Today’s stars cover Buddy Holly

May 16, 2011

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No Country

In memoriam to Buddy Holly (1936-1959), who would have turned 75 this year, an awesome collection of contemporary stars are releasing covers for a tribute album to the Rock-n-Roll pioneer. Buddy Holly became an American Rock n’ Roll icon in only a year and a half before the 22 year old musician was killed…
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