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NEBULA ANNOUNCES FIVE CALIFORNIA DATES FOR LATE NOV., EARLY DEC. Nebula Legendary Los Angeles based rock trio Nebula has announced a set of late November/early December west coast shows, taking place from 11/28-12/05. All dates will be supported by Dusted Angel and Radio Moscow .

I had a very pleasant private conversation this year with a certain famous libertarian person who told me that he wakes up in the morning, reads The New York Times on his Kindle, then fires up Reason on the device for "counter-programming." While I don't necessarily view our humble mag/website/blog/video juggernaut in opposition to the Great Grey ...

The Year : 1969 The Album : Alexander 'Skip' Spence, Oar Who It Influenced : Beck, Wilco, Tom Waits, Giant Sand, Cat Power, Sandro Perri This year, Scientologist song-and-dance-man Beck started up an online ' Record Club ,' in which he and his pals - brother-in-law Giovanni Ribisi, producer Nigel Godrich, Devendra Banhart , Little Joy, MGMT - would ...

Another way to look at Times New Viking 's willfully lo-fi recordings is that they're a conceptual enforcement of volume.

This morning you woke up and we bet you didn't think "You know what my life needs right now? An underground Chinese band doing a live cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Sunday Morning'!" Let's pretend you thought that and, magically, the godess of music delivered the following, and everything was suddenly alright: The band is called Carsick Cars, ...

Famous musician Lou Reed held a special signing at Parisian boutique colette yesterday in promotion of his new book The Velvet Underground - New York Art.

NME : REM's in the studio with Accelerate producer Jacknife Lee. Above is a shaky-camera video Stipe made that includes a couple notes the band's kicking around.

Tony Fletcher's history of music in New York is called All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 . In it, he posits that the various musical movements spawned in the city - Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop, Greenwich Village-style folk, disco, punk, and hip-hop - were all born on the streets of New York.

Former Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule will make an extremely rare joint public appearance on Dec.

Tragic punk icon SID VICIOUS would still be alive and well today if he had met rocker LOU REED - because he would have realised that the drug lifestyle the VELVET UNDERGROUND star sang about wasn't that glamorous, according to SEX PISTOLS bandmate JOHN LYDON.

It has been called the Velvet Revolution, a revolution so velvety that not a single bullet was fired.

As part of his new Record Club project, Beck has recruited friends like MGMT, Devendra Banhart, and Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale to cover entire albums from the Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen .

Former member of the Velvet Underground and iconoclastic solo artist John Cale is coming home as part of the Soundtrack Film Festival to resurrect one of his early albums.

Special preview of The Comedy Club at Zouk KL recently, featuring Terry Johnson, Jonathan Atherton and Andrew Netto Those who say that laughter is the best medicine obviously have not met Rizal Kamal, the managing director of The Comedy Club KL.

This story was previously titled "Once "Enfent Terrible"Lou Reed Shows A Gentle Side" Once "Enfant Terrible"Lou Reed Shows A Gentle Side >> Posted By Mikunited 4 hours, 43 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment Lou Reed may be a rock legend, the founding member of the Velvet Underground, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a man so cool that ...

As frontman with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed epitomised the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

I headed along to the launch this week of the 2010 Sydney Festival, the first of three festivals from new director Lindy Hume, and already I'm wondering how to find the time, space and funds to see everything, the program is so diverse.

It's rock'n'roll Reviewed by Zoe Anderson Step back in time: Michael Clark draws on the glam rock era enlarge Rock music is good for Michael Clark.

American soul legend Al Green will help inject a whole lotta love into the Sydney Festival in 2010, headlining the event alongside The Velvet Underground's John Cale and Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman.