Last night on the Late Show with David Letterman , Spiritualized performed their latest single "Sweet Jane," off their stellar album  Sweet ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/watch-spiritualized-perform-hey-jane-on-letterman-/65077/

Nine sunny songs to get you through a grey day Each week, we invite someone to share a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. Rose Clark is a history of art and english graduate who lives and works near London. Follow her on Twitter . This a mix of sunny songs for a grey day. Star Slinger – Mornin' If I had any musical ability, I'd like to make music like this man. His mix of electro with soul and funk is heavenly. "Sweet dreams in the summer time". Museum of Bellas Artes – Watch the Glow Sun kissed ...

"Hey Jane" opens Sweet Heart Sweet Light, Spiritualized's seventh full-length album and the first since 2008's Songs in A&E.; Nodding slyly to The Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane," the song finds frontman Jason Pierce wondering, like a mantra, "Hey Jane, when you gonna die?"—one of numerous allusions to mortality throughout Sweet Heart Sweet Light.

Spiritualized return this year with a follow up to 2008's Songs in A&E.; Called Sweet Heart Sweet Light we've already heard the single 'Sweet Jane' and seen the accompanying video, and now the band have posted the album in its entirety up online for stream. Sweet Heart Sweet...

[Photo by Johnny] I was in college when the landmark ‘The Trinity Session‘ album by Junkies">Cowboy Junkies was released.  Garnering attention with their unique cover of Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane”, I think it’s safe to say that every guy on my dorm floor developed a crush on frontwoman Margo Timmins.  Rather than rest on the [...]

Watch ‘Sweet Jane’ (NSFW) below. Catch ‘em on their North American tour. MP3: Spiritualized – Death Take Your Fiddle (Live)

Hunx Hairdresser Blues [Hardly Art; 2012] by Rowan Savage Rating: Seth Bogart: saying what I’m about to say is going to hurt me more than it hurts you. For those who’ve hip-swung to Hunx and His Punx’ (presumably) Pacino-inspired “Cruising,” this might not seem like a bad thing. But I’m afraid it is. Having thus wrecked all my chances of ever bedding Bogart on an Antipodean tour (I think I may have also freaked out personal idol Lydia Loveless by telling her on Facebook that I’d cream my jeans if she came to Australia — but not ...

This one goes out to all the Canadian readers I met this weekend in both Toronto and Montreal. Thanks for saying hello and hope to see you guys again soon! While this particular cassette has been posted before, the digital copy I had was full of digital skips/jumps (a sound I detest more than almost anything, though the snow removal alarm trucks in Montreal have quickly risen up the ranks), so I've made a new, high bitrate rip from a borrowed copy. If you're not already familiar with this one, you can expect another solid collection of ...

Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house...  Lou "Solo Version of Metallica" Reed , who joined Metallica to engage in 2011's greatest act of trolling with the execrable Lulu , has announced a European tour. Set to kick off this summer, the tour has been titled "FROM VU TO LULU". So if you ever wanted to hear "Iced Honey" alongside "Sweet Jane", well, you're welcome, I guess. (Metallica is not joining Lou Reed on this trek, just to be clear.)

I was excited by this release as Lou Reed – Live Performances 1972 & 1974 is the first live recording from Lou’s Sally Can’t Dance tour to be commercially released. The first video segment shows Lou and his band recorded live at the Paris Olympia on 5/25/74. This segment, which was originally broadcast on French TV, captures the first six songs of Lou’s thirteen song set. The second segment contains four tracks that were recorded in Brussels in May 1974 and the final track is from Lou’s reunion with John Cale and Nico at Le Bataclan in 1972. On Lou’s 1974 tour, the songs have been given a radical reworking to take on an urban, funky vibe. Most of the songs are longer than their respective studio versions which give the band room to jam and highlight prominent bass and keyboard. While Lou has always been the leader of the band, he had now moved to be the focal point as well. Lou is a peroxide blonde, dressed all in black, with large “Marty Rev” style sunglasses – he has completely handed off guitar playing off to Danny Weis and makes some pretty ‘interesting’ pre-disco dance moves while not singing. Lou mostly seems lost in his own world in front of the mic but does tell the crowd “Hey! Shut Up!” as the band is starting into “Ride Sally Ride”. This DVD is a great bridge between Lou’s experimental solo work and the polish of his later work as Lou was a veteran performer by the time of his next concert video – A Night with Lou Reed , which captures Lou live at the Bottom Line in 1983. Track List - Paris 1974 - Intro/Sweet Jane - I'm Waiting for the Man - Lady Day - Vicious - Sally Can't Dance - Ride Sally Ride Track List - Brussels 1974 - Rock 'n Roll - Heroin - Walk on the Wild Side - Goodnight Ladies Reed/Cale - "Heroin", Le Bataclan, Paris '72 (Uploader disabled embedding) There is some variation in quality between the three segments on the disc. The Paris footage is the best quality footage – it is filmed in color and is clear throughout. The source footage has deteriorated so this isn’t nowhere near comparable to “MTV style” live footage but it is very watchable (B/+) and the sound is solid. The Brussels footage is of noticeable lesser quality – while this segment was filmed in color, wide angles along with a good bit of generational loss make the video portion muddy. There are also some source video glitches in this segment. The redeeming factor is that audio is comparable to the Paris segment. The Le Bataclan footage was filmed in B&W; and this footage is pretty good – the camera starts behind Reed and Cale but ends up with some nice close-ups of both men. Links : Lou Reed

Der US-amerikanische Gitarrist und Singer/Songwriter Lou Reed kommt im Sommer diesen Jahres für einige Konzerte nach Deutschland. Unter dem Motto "From VU to Lulu" hat der Musiker Songs seiner mehrere Dekaden umfassenden Karriere im Gepäck, darunter Klassiker von Velvet Underground bis zu den aktuellen Hits seiner Kollaborations- und Solowerke. Erstmals nach 2009 präsentiert Lou Reed in Deutschland live Meilensteine der Rockmusik. Wer sich dieses Spektakel nicht entgehen lassen will, der sollte sich die folgenden Termine gut vormerken: Lou Reed – Live 2012: 20.06. Berlin - Citadel Music Festival 23.06. Mainz - Zollhafen/Nordmole 29.06. Bonn - Kunst!Rasen 30.06 ...

Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side CD (XXL Media) is a re-release of Lou’s live-in-the-studio performance from Ultrasonic Studios which was recorded on Dec. 26, 1972 in Hempstead, NY. At the time this show was recorded, Lou’s second solo disc, Transformer , had come out the month prior and the songs on this ten track disc are predominately drawn from Transformer and the Velvet Underground’s back catalogue (Lou amusingly refers to one of the Velvet’s tracks as a ‘ blast from the past ’). This disc is an important addition to Lou Reed’s catalog as his ...

Filed under: New Music , A Day in the Life Anton Corbijn A 30-second audio snippet of 'The View' - a track from the forthcoming Metallica and Lou Reed collaboration album, 'Lulu,' has just leaked. The track will be released as a digital single on September 27 th . 'Lulu' will be released on November 1 st via Warner Bros. Records and was co-produced by Reed, Metallica, Hal Wilner and Greg Fidelman ( Slayer , Life of Agony ). These two giants of modern music first came together in October 2009, at the 25th anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York. Metallica ...

Listen up, Jack White, Flaming Lips, et al. Here's how the pros engage in PR-drunk, crack-pot collaborations. First off, you probably remember from that one time you were on the internet that Lou Reed (you know, art-rocky Velvet Underground guy? Kinda looks like Anthony Bourdain? Can't sing too well anymore?) has joined forces with Metallica (you know, the only metal band ever?) to record a collaborative album after jamming together at 2009's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert. Yeah, apparently, Metallica passed the expert-musician test by successfully playing the "Sweet Jane" riff on guitar, but ...

Lolla’s 20th anniversary was my sixth straight, having attended every year since it expanded to three days in Chicago’s gorgeous Grant Park. In those six years I’ve had some amazing times, and experienced a mass of great music.  It all began in 2006, arriving to The Raconteurs covering Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” and from then on, I *had* to be there. The next year in 2007, Daft Punk flew in on their pyramid of light, the year after that, Wilco donned their Sgt. Pepper-inspired threads in 2008, heck, I even got to see Lou Reed play “Sweet ...