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 […]
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.
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 I felt like I’d just discovered that a loved one had been replaced by a pod person.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 […]
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 […]
