April 14, 2013 – The Warfield (San Francisco, CA)
8:00PM
982 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://thewarfieldtheatre.com/eventdetail.php?id=39664
April 16, 2013 – Golden State Theatre (Monterey, CA)
8:00PM
417 Alvarado Street
Monterey, CA 93940
http://goldenstatetheatre.com/events/lou-reed
“Once the vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for the American rock group The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed has to this day continued to be influential within the music industry as both a solo artist and collaborator. While many dedicated fans know of his contributions to music, others may not know of his growing portfolio of experimental photographs, much of which is showcased in a new book calledRimes Rhymes. The book, recently published by French publisher Éditions Photosynthèses, features over 300 photographs by Reed along with text by Bernard Comment.” – feature shoot
photo: Monsters & Critics
Lou spent two weeks of November in Europe to celebrate the recent publication of his photography collection Rhymes. He visited the following cities and galleries, museums, and bookstores:
3 November – Frankfurt, Germany – Frank Landau Gallery
4 November – Frankfurt, Germany – Museum Kunstverein & Frank Landau Gallery
5 November – Stuttgart, Germany – Bucchas Wittwer
6 November – Stuttgart, Germany – Gallery Michael Sturm
8 & 9 November – Basel, Switzerland – Gallery Villa Renata
12 November – Paris, France – Palais de Tokyo
13 November – Paris, France – Le Thé des Escrivains
16 November – Madrid, Spain – Cineteca Madrid
17 November – Madrid, Spain – Teatro Español
Rhymes is currently available through French publisher Editions Potosyntheses.
Click on the “Pictures” tab above to see photos taken along the way.
You can now listen to Lou & Hal’s New York Shuffle on BBC6 by clicking here!
Although he hasn’t had a constellation namedafter him, Lou Reed has joined the late Frank Zappa and Neil Young as rock stars who have had newly discovered spiders named after them.
According to Sci-News.com, a new genus of velvet spider has been recently named Loureedia “in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground.” Obviously in reference to Reed’s time in the Velvet Underground, Loureedia was chosen by an international group of biologists and representatives of institutions from the U.S., Hungary, Denmark and Iran among other countries.
The velvet spider — which is described has having a “dark and shiny” appearance — is known to be rarely encountered, much like Reed’s at times testy encounters with music journalists over the years. The creature is also known to live in Africa, Asia and Europe with Brazil also home to a form of the species.
Reed has sung about spiders in the past. For example the song “Baton Rouge” — found on the 2000 album Ecstasy — contains the lyrics, “In the terra-cotta cobwebs of your mind/When did you start seeing me as a spider spinning web.”
Reed joins Young, who had a trapdoor spider named Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after him a few years ago. Zappa’s spider is called the Pachygnatha zappa and was so named in part due to the creature’s markings that bring to mind the musician’s signature mustache.
Reed is currently off the road after releasing Lulu, the album created from Reed’s collaboration with Metallica last year. Reed embarks on a European tour next month starting in Luxembourg and concluding in early July in Slovakia. Reed also makes a guest appearance on Metric‘s forthcoming studio album Synthetica.
-by Jason MacNeil (via Spinner.com)
