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Oct 11, 2024 | sun-13.com | Simon Kirk |Cass McCombs |Lou Reed |Mike Bones

“Your life is a just a song / It’s here and then it’s gone / What type of trip are you on?” sings Mike Bones on Barking at the Moon – the penultimate track on Weak Signal’snew album, Fine. It’s a line that reminds me of bands that swerve a key facet of the human emotion: humour. Avoiding humour presents a watered-down version of ‘the song’, ultimately deeming it irrelevant even with the little time one has to actually listen to one.

Jul 27, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Lou Reed |Adam Schrader

Stefan Sagmeister, a celebrated designer best known for creating album covers for the Rolling Stones and David Byrne, is being feted with a major retrospective. The exhibition is a homecoming of sorts, as it is being held this fall at the School of Visual Arts in New York where he taught for many years. The show, titled “The Masters Series: Stefan Sagmeister,” will highlight the 61-year-old artist’s contributions to design, including the groundbreaking use of his own body as a medium.

May 20, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Delmore Schwartz |Ange Mlinko |Lou Reed

As for the poète maudit, the French writer Barbey d’Aurevilly put it best: “There remains no choice for him but that between the muzzle of a pistol or the foot of the cross.” Redemption or extinction, Being or Nothingness: if the former is only afforded to a privileged elect, then one must recall that “the pistol” also offers itself in many guises. Silence is one path, even if it’s spent running guns in Ethiopia, as Rimbaud did.

May 17, 2024 | vnexplorer.net | John Cale |Lou Reed

Resulta casi imposible quedarse con una sola de las miles de imágenes que Bob Gruen ha revelado a lo largo de su extensa carrera, un viaje a lo largo de la historia del rock'n'roll que el fotógrafo neoyorquino ha recorrido junto a Tina Turner, los Ramones, Lou Reed, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Cher o los Rolling Stones, por nombrar algunos de los artistas inmortalizados por su cámara, ojo privilegiado del surgimiento del punk en el Nueva York de los años 70, cuyos retratos se han...

Apr 18, 2024 | pugetsoundradio.com | Lou Reed |Ringo Starr |Stevie Ray Vaughan |Joan Jett

ON THIS DAY in 1846the telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House of New York City. In 1877, Charles Cros wrote a paper on the process of recording and reproducing sound. In France, Mr. Cros is still regarded as the inventor of the phonograph, while on this side of the Atlantic, Thomas Edison gets the credit. In 1912,  radio/TV actor Al Hodge was born in smalltown Ohio.