Lou Reed

Echo Park's Little Joy gives dive-bar fans a reason to rejoice

2013-04-05 00:00:00

Things have been done in the bathrooms of Little Joy that would make even Keith Richards' skin crawl. The Echo Park dive bar was also notorious for the amount of times drunk, scrappy rockers got beat up outside of it. (Nobody likes a drunk, scrappy...

Justin Timberlake tops album chart with 968,000 copies sold

2013-03-27 11:50:00

He didn't quite hit the million-sold mark, though he came awfully close. Capping a whirlwind promotional run that included hosting "Saturday Night Live," performing on five consecutive episodes of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" and playing an intimate...

Smokey Robinson to release album of duets this fall

2013-03-28 10:14:00

Smokey Robinson is getting in on the duets album action. Following his appearance Wednesday night on "American Idol," the R&B legend announced Thursday that he's to release a set of all-star duets this fall through the Verve Music Group. The album...

Lou Reed cancels Coachella, Orpheum dates

2013-03-27 09:58:00

Coachella just got a bit less grizzled. Citing "unavoidable complications," Lou Reed announced Tuesday that he has canceled his planned appearance at next month's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, scheduled to bring artists including Blur,...

Gucci Mane jailed on assault charge

2013-03-27 11:13:00

Gucci Mane apparently isn't ready for spring break to end just yet. The Atlanta rapper and actor was booked into the Fulton County Jail late Tuesday, after Gucci Mane (born Radric Davis) turned himself in on suspicion of aggravated assault with a...

David Bowie, Justin Timberlake are stars of pop music's spring

2013-03-08 07:30:00

The winter hibernation is nearing its end. Bleary-eyed musicians are crawling out of their windowless studios after months — and in some cases, years — of isolated dream-capturing. The bottomless espresso cup awaits, and a queue next to the...

Parsing Coachella 2013: Lineup highlights by genre

2013-01-25 09:33:00

How would you book a festival that, regardless of your decisions, was sure to sell out? Would you give the people what they want, or give them what they need?� Always the diplomats, those who slotted the 2013 Coachella Music and Arts Festival lineup,...

Shakespeare and the Alabama Shakes: Grammy glory for the Bard?

2013-02-08 07:17:00

“What’s in a name,” quoth the Bard of Avon in “Romeo and Juliet.” In the offices of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, one of the deep South’s flagship theater companies, marketing director Meg Lewis has been trying to...

Coachella 2013: Ticket woes and a quick sell-out for Weekend 1

2013-01-29 13:10:00

Tickets for the first weekend of this year's� Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival reportedly sold out within 15 minutes, even as computer users reported widespread issues in attempting to purchase weekend passes. Long wait times and site crashes...

Coachella 2013: Blur, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline

2013-01-24 22:09:00

Last year the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival used technological trickery to make it look as if Tupac Shakur had been brought back to life. So what do you do for an encore to one of pop music’s biggest magic shows? Coachella organizers have...

Album review: Christopher Owens' 'Lysandre'

2013-01-15 05:00:00

"New York City," the third song on Christopher Owens' debut solo album "Lysandre," is kind of an opposite-universe version of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side." It's a sax-soaked tale of turning tricks in the big city, but zips along a major-key melody...

Metallica leaves Warner Music with its masters, forms Blackened Records

2012-11-30 11:57:00

Metallica has gone indie. The band announced on Friday that it has officially left its longtime home, the Warner Music Group, taken its master recordings and formed a new independent label, Blackened Recordings. All forthcoming Metallica projects --...

Lou Reed has canceled his upcoming appearance at next month's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival as well as his scheduled appearance at the Orpheum in downtown L.A.

2013-03-27 06:30:23

$12.99/750-ml. bottle, 6.4 percent ABV This just doesn't seem fair: Two of Baltimore's most trusted names in beer collaborate to craft a rich, farmhouse ale. Unsurprisingly, this is a complex beer, with a floral aroma of honeysuckle and a slightly spicy finish.

2012-10-17 03:54:00

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2012-07-13 14:47:00

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