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  Lou Reed's Operation: Velvet Underground Icon 'Stronger Than Ever' With New Liver

  June 3, 2013 – Lou Reed has a new liver, and he's sounding magnificently upbeat about it."I am a triumph of modern medicine, physics, and chemistry," the former Velvet Underground frontman wrote in a Facebook post. He continued, referring to his decades-long study of chai: "I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. …
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  Lou Reed Mysteriously Cancels Coachella, Sideshow Gigs

  March 26, 2013 – Following the leads of Morrissey and Animal Collective, Lou Reed has just canceled a slate of upcoming tour dates.The Desert Sun reports that the former Velvet Underground frontman has backed out of his two upcoming Coachella gigs and the three California sideshows he had booked between the annual festival's two weekends. …
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  Zine and Heard: Rare Images from the Punk Press

  March 22, 2013 –  …
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  UR1 Festival Postponed: Strong Winds Bluster Kanye West-Led Miami Lineup

  November 21, 2012 – Miami's UR1 Festival has been postponed due to strong winds forecast during the music showcase's inaugural weekend, December 8 and 9. …
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  Animal Collective, Jane's Addiction Join UR1 Festival Lineup

  October 18, 2012 – Animal Collective, Jane's Addiction, Flying Lotus, and more have been added to the UR1 Festival's lineup, which already boasted headliners Kanye West, Lou Reed, Slash, and the Offspring. Scheduled for December 8 and December 9 to coincide with the 11th annual Art Basel, UR1 will feature multiple stages throughout the 32-acre space at Bayfront Park in Miami Beach.Tickets range from $99 to $149. You can buy them here. …
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  Lou Reed Makes a Funny! Shares Photo of 'Sectioned' Banana

  September 11, 2012 – This just in: Lou Reed has a sense of humor! (And, we're guessing, a friend who knows how to use Photoshop.) The Velvet Underground founder shared a photo of a sliced up banana via Facebook on Tuesday with the caption "Sectioned." The image mimics the iconic cover of the band's 1967 debut, The Velvet Underground and Nico, which is currently caught up in a lawsuit over its art. …
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  Is Louis C.K. Comedy's Lou Reed?

  June 28, 2012 – For those of us who paid to sit through (and genuinely loved) Pootie Tang, seeing Louis C.K. come to dominate both the stand-up scene and the sitcom is legitimately fantastic. We remember the "waving a peach" and "BAND THING!" punchlines. We endured Lucky Louie, a show that didn't work even if you understood his neo-Honeymooners mindset. …
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  John Cusack Lists the Music That Inspired 'The Raven'

  April 27, 2012 – In his new movie The Raven, John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe, but this is no sober Victorian drama. Instead, Cusack's Poe is enlisted by the Baltimore police to help solve a series of murders based on his stories. The movie, out today, is far from a solemnly reverent take on Poe and his work, but to help inhabit his character's tortured psyche, Cusack often relied on music. …
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  Watch New Videos From Taylor Swift, Loutallica, Deer Tick, and B.o.B

  December 5, 2011 – On November 1, Lou Reed and Metallica finally unleashed their much-discussed collaborative album, Lulu. Has it created "another planetary system" yet? Hard to say, but the critically divisive record has led to a previously revealed team-up with Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler). …
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  Watch Lou Reed and Metallica Terrify a 'Jools Holland' Crowd

  November 9, 2011 – The Loutallica Metal Music Machine rolls on, somehow drowning out the sound of everyone screaming that they should put on the brakes. The latest stop for these two legendary tastes that taste weird together is British TV show Later... …
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