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media interview on the disaster and downplayed what happened. >> rail city telling that that has evolved a lot over the years. but theres clearly more that needs to be done because while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly one thousand cases a year of a train derailing. but a judge also said that he hopes to get to know some of the folks who were impacted by this, but claims the reason he hasnt visited is that he wants to respect ...

Lou Reed’s last released solo recording before his untimely death in 2013 is this gorgeous, quiet, all-instrumental New Age-inspired set.

Peter Aaron reviews Will Hermes's new biography on Lou Reed, The King of New York.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a lost downtempo classic from 1993, a dreamy, fascinating chimera of styles and moods produced by the legendary Andrew Weatherall.

The fingerstyle experimentalist’s new album bends guitar, mouth bow, field recordings, and electronic detritus into into vast tapestries of pliant drone

It’s easy, really. Just deliberately turn in a bad, bad album.

In 2010, Lou Reed performed his album Machine Metal Music at the Junction as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations

There were at least three Lou Reeds. First and most enduring was the front man of the Velvet Underground, the greaser poet from Long Island who had a cabbie’s voice and a knack for writing songs about drugs and sex and salvation that sounded like the gutter side of 1960s rock. Then came Reed the freelance auteur, churning out spotty solo albums and delivering gnomic anti-interviews to the press. (This same Reed licensed songs to The Simpsons and Beverly Hills 90210, and appeared in ads fo...

Legendary battles with Lester Bangs in Creem revealed the depth of Reed's ennui by Patrick Vecchio For several years in the 1970s, I was a fan of Lou Reed, who died Sunday at age 71. When I learned he had died, the first thing I thought of was his 1974 album Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal.…

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