Rock pioneer Lou Reed is dead at the age of 71. While Reed is best known as a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter in The Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, he also leaves behind a legacy of more experimental noise music. His Metal Machine Music – an hourlong noise music double-album – has no… Read More Lou Reed Dead At 71
Rolling Stone has a review of Lou Reed‘s recent live performance of Metal Machine Music – Reeds’ controversial symphony of noise. When Metal Machine Music was released in 1975, people did not know what to make of it. The album, influenced by the drone music of La Monte Young and John Cale, consists entirely of… Read More Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music is an unrelenting assault on your senses. The original two record set, released in 1975, was mostly noise: feedback squalls, amplifier hums and the tortured screech of electronic gadgets. Now it’s been adapted for live performance by Reinhold Friedl, Ulrich Kreiger and the 11-member Zeitkratzer ensemble from Berlin, transcribing the… Read More Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music
