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Lou Reed

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Top Ten Rock and Pop Stars Who Hate Digital Music Downloading

    Ever since the dawn of digitization, the internet-surfing public has had every bit of media at its fingertips. And once Napster took the music world by storm, there has been a constantly raging debate about how to restructure the industry around digital music downloads. Some artists have simply acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    CDs Are Dead! Crossfade's Five Fave Obsolete Music Formats

    Rest in peace, CDs.​Neither the dot-com bubble or the more recently burst housing bubble have got shit on the compact disc bubble of the '90s. And the reasons are precisely why the recording industry is preparing to officially announce the death of the CD. CDs are supercheap to make, way cheaper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Charles Manson, Slipknot, and Other Rock 'N' Roll Boogeymen That Aren't Actually Scary

    Charlie Manson was a rock 'n' roller too.​​After sex and drugs, rock 'n' roll is often paired with scary. Ever since the darkly psychedelic burnout at the end of the '60s (epitomized by Iggy Pop's amphetamine-inspired caterwauling and Lou Reed's doom-y bad trip bummer jamming), there have b ... More >>

  • Music

    February 3, 2011

    Dubfire at Mansion February 5

    Charlie Manson was a rock 'n' roller too.​​After sex and drugs, rock 'n' roll is often paired with scary. Ever since the darkly psychedelic burnout at the end of the '60s (epitomized by Iggy Pop's amphetamine-inspired caterwauling and Lou Reed's doom-y bad trip bummer jamming), there have b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Dubfire's Proto-Punk Future Techno at Mansion February 5

    ​As an Iranian-American teen caught up in Washington, D.C.'s 1980s music scene, Ali Shirazinia became a fan of hardcore and New Wave. But when that decade died out, the kid switched, like a lot of ex-punks, to electronic noise. He learned to DJ, eventually adopted the stage name Dubfire, and co- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Iggy Pop to Cameo Star in Beastie Boy-Produced William S. Burroughs Documentary

    ​Most bibliophiles know about the lurid tales of William S. Burroughs. He shot and killed his second wife by accident while drunk, became openly gay, had an affinity for guns, a serious opiate addiction the last 50 years of his life -- and for all of you Floridians, he spent a small time living in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    Blind Men Shall Lead Us

    ​Most bibliophiles know about the lurid tales of William S. Burroughs. He shot and killed his second wife by accident while drunk, became openly gay, had an affinity for guns, a serious opiate addiction the last 50 years of his life -- and for all of you Floridians, he spent a small time living in ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    Head Spins: Sevim Abaza, South Florida's queen of metal disco

    ​Most bibliophiles know about the lurid tales of William S. Burroughs. He shot and killed his second wife by accident while drunk, became openly gay, had an affinity for guns, a serious opiate addiction the last 50 years of his life -- and for all of you Floridians, he spent a small time living in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Art Basel Music: O.H.W.O.W. Brings NYC's Max Fish Down to Miami in the Old PS14 Space

    via oh-wow.comThe real Max Fish​Mike Bones and Brian DeGraw. Max Fish is the coolest no-bullshit bar on Manhattan's L.E.S., and in celebration of its 20th birthday, the good folks at OHWOW have recreated the bar here in Miami, in its entirety. Bonus for those of us missing out on our own late belo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Top Ten Thursdays: Top Ten Songs for Obama Haters

    via rpof.orgJim Greer thinks censorship is very American.​All summer long I have gone shit-house-rat-crazy observing the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove and the rest of The Right's evil elite dispense fear-mongering falsehoods in a desperate attempt to stop some much nee ... More >>

  • Film

    April 2, 2009

    Relive Your '80s Youth in Adventureland

    via rpof.orgJim Greer thinks censorship is very American.​All summer long I have gone shit-house-rat-crazy observing the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove and the rest of The Right's evil elite dispense fear-mongering falsehoods in a desperate attempt to stop some much nee ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 5, 2008

    His Satanic Majesty's Bequest

    Art meets rock at a raucous new MoCA exhibition.

  • Calendar

    May 22, 2008

    Va-Va-VOOM

    Hot art in high-definition at the Bass.

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2008
  • Culture

    December 6, 2007

    10 Rules for Sponging Off Basel

    You don't have to be a millionaire to enjoy Art Basel (but it sure helps).

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    AIPAD is Stunning, Right Off the Launch Pad

    You don't have to be a millionaire to enjoy Art Basel (but it sure helps).

  • Music

    August 9, 2007

    Frank Black

    93-03 (Cooking Vinyl)

  • Music

    June 15, 2006

    Whirlwind Heat

    93-03 (Cooking Vinyl)

  • Music

    March 23, 2006

    Tom Verlaine

    "Documentary" (Drag City)

  • Music

    December 15, 2005

    Antony and the Johnsons

    I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)

  • Music

    June 2, 2005

    Smog

    A River Ain't Too Much to Love (Drag City)

  • Music

    February 3, 2005

    Antony and the Johnsons

    I Am a Bird Now Secretly Canadian

  • Music

    September 9, 2004

    John Cale

    HoboSapiens Or Music

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2003

    Cookin' Sounds

    Gerber's blues are like poultry, er, poetry

  • Music

    May 1, 2003

    Frog's Legs

    Schneider TM cooks up pop delicacies for your ears

  • Music

    April 3, 2003

    A.R.E. Weapons

    A.R.E. Weapons Rough Trade

  • News

    September 19, 2002

    Kafka in a Guayabera

    He may be across the ocean, but Czech Pres. Havel's Cuban-exile headaches have already begun

  • Music

    June 6, 2002

    Modern Love

    Get excited about Jonathan Richman

  • Music

    May 16, 2002

    BEST CONCERT OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS

    The Strokes at Billboardlive

  • Music

    May 2, 2002

    O Superwoman

    Laurie Anderson finds Happiness

  • Music

    December 27, 2001

    New York's Shout! DJs Come Back Home

    Retro rock won't f-f-f-fade away

  • Music

    October 12, 2000

    Richard Buckner

    The Hill (Overcoat)

  • Music

    August 31, 2000

    Sumner Vacation

    Sting and the art of corporate rock

  • Music

    August 17, 2000

    Safe Sexuality

    The guilty pleasures of 'N Sync and the boy-band brigade

  • Music

    July 6, 2000

    Flanagan's Wake

    VH1 vice president's novel about the music business mourns an era just since passed

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    Turning Around Time

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Music

    January 28, 1999

    Farewell to the Pathetic Aesthetic

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Music

    January 14, 1999

    Rock 101 Revisited

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Music

    November 13, 1997

    The Art of the Matter

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Calendar

    July 3, 1997

    Calendar for the week

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Calendar

    July 25, 1996

    Calendar for the week

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Film

    May 30, 1996

    Blond Angel's Death Song

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Music

    March 28, 1996

    Rotations

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • Culture

    August 3, 1995

    Kitsch Highway

    Lou: Saved from the dustbin of cult history

  • News

    April 27, 1995

    Heroin Be the Death of Me

    South Beach nightlife sophisticates know they can handle it. A little puff now and then won't kill you. No big deal.

  • Music

    February 23, 1995

    Still Waiting

    South Beach nightlife sophisticates know they can handle it. A little puff now and then won't kill you. No big deal.

  • Film

    April 27, 1994

    The Angels Return

    South Beach nightlife sophisticates know they can handle it. A little puff now and then won't kill you. No big deal.

  • News

    November 25, 1992

    Swelter

    South Beach nightlife sophisticates know they can handle it. A little puff now and then won't kill you. No big deal.

  • News

    August 19, 1992

    Swelter

    South Beach nightlife sophisticates know they can handle it. A little puff now and then won't kill you. No big deal.

  • Music

    September 18, 1991

    They Right the Songs

    South Beach nightlife sophisticates know they can handle it. A little puff now and then won't kill you. No big deal.

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