Lou Reed

Before achieving fame and glory as a leading Pop artist, Andy Warhol was a successful commercial artist who contributed illustrations to women's magazines and designed windows and promotional materials for department stores. Among his clients was Tiffany & Co., for...  

Lou Reed’s a strange one, but then again, you’d pretty much expect him to be: as a teenager, the Velvet Underground founder was institutionalized by his parents and underwent a course of electro-convulsive treatment in order to cure his “homosexual feelings”… a traumatic event that I’ve always felt directly inspired Reed’s 1975 double album of [...]  

American rock musician Lou Reed has developed an iPhone app for the visually impaired. The app, called Lou Zoom, helps magnify the words on the iPhone. In his own words: With Lou Zoom, your contacts have never been this beautiful—or this huge and legible! Each name in your contact list expands to the full width of the display, making them easier to select, and allowing you to read your contact info without squinting. [via RTTNews...  

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Aging rocker Lou Reed has designed an iPhone app with Ben Syverson called Lou Zoom. In short: it makes the font larger so that you can see your contact names correctly when your vision isn't what it used to be. This will likely come in handy so that when Reed wants to call his Community Board about the garbage tower he doesn't accidentally call former bandmate John Cale, which would be awkward. That Helvetica Neue font is nice, too — the...  

What does Lou Reed have to do with the iPhone, apart from his songs being sold on iTunes? Better sit down and brace yourself for the coming news – he’s designed an app. For the nearsighted. (more…)  

"ANARCHY at www.nypl.org/ 2night when the Velvet Underground is oversold and hits max. capacity early. Even tkt holders not allowed in!" - Nerida Brownlee David Fricke, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker & Doug Yule @ tNYPL (by Jack Martin) "Yes, the...  

Lou Reed, Moe Tucker and Doug Yule share a stage together Post this on Twitter or Follow NME The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, Moe Tucker and Doug Yule staged a rare reunion in New York on Tuesday (December 8) to take part in a question and answer  

Damon Albarn's cartoon cut-ups become the first band to make a record featuring members of The Velvet Underground and The Bee Gees. Plus: Morrissey talks suicide; Phish cover TV on the Radio; Pete Doherty covers the Nazis.  

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Watching Mick Jagger face off with Bono and Bruce Springsteen backing up Billy Joel may have given fans at the two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concerts a thrill, but the musicians onstage got a jolt from their all-star team-ups, too. Case in point: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, who gushed to Rolling Stone [...]  

US singers Joan Baez, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega performed Saturday at a concert in Prague paying homage to former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a hero of the Velvet Revolution 20 years ago."These artists, passionate about freedom, were in solidarity with us at the darkest time," Havel, 73, said at the start of the concert at an old church transformed into a cultural centre."They continue to be loyal to us," said the playwright and former...  

Planning to tuck into a nice, fat turkey this Thanksgiving? What are you, sick? Turkeys are your animal companions. Repent of your carnivorism in the traditional way -- with celebrities! On November 22, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Russell Simmons will...  

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