Lou Reed

NEW YORK , Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- LOU REED , PHILIP GLASS , JOHN ZORN , GARY LUCAS , RICHARD BELZER and SONIC YOUTH will join THE FUGS for a benefit concert for TULI KUPFERBERG , the Beat poet and original member of THE FUGS, at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn on January 22, 2010 .  Mr. Kupferberg, 86, has had two strokes over the last year, which have left him blind.  The tickets for the concert, produced by HAL WILLNER , will help pay his medical expenses.  Others performers include singer John Kruth ; and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders (who also played on early Fugs albums).  Tickets are $75 to $125 and are available at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7900805 or (718) 254.8779. Rock pioneers THE FUGS – the world's first major underground/punk group – will release their final, and arguably best-ever studio recording – BE FREE!  FINAL CD (PART 2) , on February 23, 2010 . Read More

NEW YORK , Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- LOU REED , PHILIP GLASS , JOHN ZORN , GARY LUCAS , RICHARD BELZER and SONIC YOUTH will join THE FUGS for a benefit concert for TULI KUPFERBERG , the Beat poet and original member of THE FUGS, at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn on January 22, 2010 .  Mr. Kupferberg, 86, has had two strokes over the last year, which have left him blind.  The tickets for the concert, produced by HAL WILLNER , will help pay his medical expenses.  Others performers include singer John Kruth ; and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders (who also played on early Fugs albums).  Tickets are $75 to $125 and are available at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7900805 or (718) 254.8779. Rock pioneers THE FUGS – the world's first major underground/punk group – will release their final, and arguably best-ever studio recording – BE FREE!  FINAL CD (PART 2) , on February 23, 2010 . Read More

Lou Reed , John Zorn , Sonic Youth and others will play a benefit concert for Tuli Kupferberg , the Beat poet and original member of the Fugs, at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn on Jan. 22. Read More

On February 16th, Insound.com will reissue yet another musical rarity, this time in the form of Lou Reed 's song "Satellite of Love". Read More

It's not because Lou Reed is an iconic rock star who's bands and music changed the face of rock music decades ago – as Brian Eno said about The Velvet Underground.. "although few people bought the album, most of those who did were inspired to form their own band." Read More

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Lou Reed's a strange one, but then again, you'd pretty much expect him to be: as a teenager, the Velvet Underground founder was institutionalized by his parents and underwent a course of electro-convulsive treatment in order to cure his "homosexual feelings a traumatic event that I've always felt directly inspired Reed's 1975 double album of recorded audio feedback, Metal Machine Music , which certainly sounded like brain synapses wildly misfiring. Reed's latest accomplishment? A surprising foray into iPhone App development called Lou Zoom , which may be just as much of a waste of money as Metal Machine Music ever was. Read More

L ou Reed will be in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics to take part in what is sure to be one of the highlights of the Cultural Olympiad. Read More

Usually when you see this elder statesman of rock, he's up on stage shredding a guitar like it's still the '70s. Read More