(Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface takes a look at particularly interesting and/or exceptional cover art choices.) Expectations. We all have them, for […]
Category: Lou Reed
A Night With Lou Reed :: The Bottom Line, 1983
I’ve been consumed by Lou Reed’s The Blue Mask of late and finally made time for the 1983 live document A Night With Lou Reed . The DVD finds Reed live in an intimate setting ( The Bottom Line ) in […]
Lou Reed And John Cale :: Songs for Drella
Jesse Malin :: Walk On The Wild Side
Like some of you, I suffer from a condition that involves me personally investigating just about every Velvets, or Lou Reed, cover I can get my hands on — I […]
Lou Reed :: Street Hassle (Digital Reissue)
Among the latest batch of albums seeing a digital-only reissue is Lou Reed’s 1978 full-length, Street Hassle . Granted, no one is going to arm wrestle the point that this is Reed’s finest album, […]