Like thoroughbred horses, industrial music has only a handful of forebears, so when the Big Three — Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and Front Line Assembly — seemed to be calling it quits or, at the very ...

Lou Reed was indisputably one of the most provocative musicians the rock world has known, releasing songs about heroin abuse and sadomasochism on his very first album (“The Velvet Underground and Nico ...

Given his reputation as a big jerk, it's frequently impossible to determine Lou Reed's genuine motivations. Even so, Metal Machine Music remains particularly enigmatic 25 years after its release. A ...

This is the best news for fans of immersive sound, the Velvet Underground, and trip metal. Surely, we’ve all at least heard of Metal Machine Music by now. Once critically reviled, in time it’s come to ...

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It was good to have this Lou Reed back: not an American Master nor a Legend of Rock, but a barking, brooding, beneficial irritant. On Thursday night at the Blender Theater at Gramercy, onstage between ...

“Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars” offers glimpses of a life in rock ’n’ roll — from doo-wop to “Metal Machine Music” — and tracks the evolution of one of music’s polarizing legends. By Ben ...

Don't ever say The A.V. Club Newswire doesn't give you enough opportunities to hate/fellate Lou Reed: According to punknews.org, today sees the release of a live version of Reed's aural-torture-porn ...

Play the hits! Lou Reed has joined up with German ensemble Zeitcracker to re-record his notorious 1975 longplayer Metal Machine Music. The project has been lying in a vault somewhere since 2002, when ...