By Mark | October 27, 2013
Rolling Stone is reporting that Velvet Underground founder and rock-n-roll icon Lou Reed has died at the age of 71, some five months after undergoing a liver transplant. Here’s a clip: …”Produced” by Warhol and met with total commercial indifference when it was released in early 1967, VU’s debut The Velvet Underground & Nico stands […]
By Mark | October 9, 2013
If you’re near a radio, computer or phone, Patrick Elkins and I are about to go live on the world’s best radio station to talk about Legfest… Join us at WCBN. update: While I didn’t get any audio of our interview, which I think went really well, I did get a few short videos from […]
It would have been better with Moe Tucker, but you get my point.
By Mark | October 2, 2010
When my friend Chris in New York sent this video to me last night, my first impulse was shock. I felt like I’d just discovered that a loved one had been replaced by a pod person. I’ve always respected Moe and her politics, which I took to be thoroughly progressive in nature. Having at one […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Other, Politics, Pop Culture | Also tagged Bo Diddley, Chris Danguilan, FOX News, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Obama is a Socialist, pod person, revelations, Sterling Morrison, taxes, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the threat of Socialism, Velvet Underground |
By Mark | December 13, 2009
Our outspoken drummer friend Moe Tucker reunited with her perpetually grumpy Velvet Underground collaborator Lou Reed a few days ago for an appearance at the New York Public Library, coinciding with the release of the new book, “The Velvet Underground: New York Art.” The event, I’m told, sold out in less than four minutes… probably […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged Andy Warhol, Chris Colfer, David Fricke, Glee, John Cale, Lou Reed, New York Public Library, rock and roll reunions, Rolling Stone, The Velvet Underground: New York Art, Velvet Underground |