Tag: Metal Machine Music

Lou Reed records album with Metallica: 'Berlin' meets 'Master of Puppets'

Lou Reed records album with Metallica: ‘Berlin’ meets ‘Master of Puppets’

No stranger to odd musical detours — whether it be ‘Metal Machine Music’ or his most recent project, ‘Hudson River Wind Meditations’ — the legendary Lou Reed has a particularly unlikely musical partner for his next album: thrash-metal titans Metallica.

New releases: The La's 'Callin' All' box set, Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' reissue

New releases: The La’s ‘Callin’ All’ box set, Lou Reed’s ‘Metal Machine Music’ reissue

This week’s new releases include ‘Callin’ All,’ a four-disc, 91-track box set from Liverpool indie-pop act The La’s, plus an audiophile reissue of Lou Reed’s noise classic ‘Metal Machine Music.’

Lou Reed reissues 'Metal Machine Music,' plots 'A Night of Deep Noise' European tour

Lou Reed reissues ‘Metal Machine Music,’ plots ‘A Night of Deep Noise’ European tour

Rock iconoclast Lou Reed next month will issue a digitally remastered edition of his oft-derided 1975 guitar-feedback opus Metal Machine Music on a trio of audiophile formats, and mark the occasion by taking his Metal Machine Trio to Europe for a brief tour billed as “A Night of Deep Noise.”