We’re all still reeling from the shocking news of Lou Reed’s death on Sunday. Reading through the tributes that have poured in over the last few days, the one that’s resonated most with me came from John Cale, who in his wise and moving testimonial to his old sparring partner, wrote: “we have the best of our fury laid out on vinyl, for the world to catch a glimpse”. We’ll be running out own full tribute to Lou in a future issue of Uncut.
As she might be said to have started off a trend for confessional song- writing with her 1971 album, Blue, we have put together as part of our celebration of Joni Mitchell's 70th birthday a list of the 50 most soul-baring singer-songwriter albums,
Patti Smith and David Byrne are the latest high profile artists to pay tribute to Lou Reed, who died on Sunday [October 26].
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Smith said:
David Bowie will premiere the video for the James Murphy remix of his song "Love Is Lost" during the Mercury Music Prize ceremony on Wednesday (October 30).
Visuals for the 10-minute long reworking of The Next Day album track will be unveiled during the Mercury Music Prize show on More 4 in the UK at 9.30pm. The full video will then be made available to watch on Vevo from November 1.
Tom Waits played his first live show in five years on Sunday [October 27] at Neil Young's Bridge School benefit concert.
Scroll down to watch fan footage of the entire 10 song set.
Waits was accompanied by David Hidalgo on guitar and accordion, Les Claypool on bass and Casey Waits on drums.
Waits has played the Bridge School Benefit concerts twice before, first in 1999 and then in 2007, when he performed with the Kronos Quartet.
Neil Young, Elvis Costello and Jim James paid tribute to Lou Reed last night [October 27] at the Bridge School Benefit concert.
They performed a cover of "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'", which originally appears on the Velvet Underground's fourth album, Loaded.
Reed died yesterday. As yet, the cause of his death has not been announced.
Nils Lofgren discusses his career as “a band guy”, performing with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, in the new issue of Uncut (dated December 2013), out now.
