“Most of you won’t like this, I won’t blame you at all,” Lou Reed cautions in the original liner notes to his 1975 double album, “Metal Machine Music,” perhaps the most notorious rock release of all ...

Like thoroughbred horses, industrial music has only a handful of forebears, so when the Big Three — Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and Front Line Assembly — seemed to be calling it quits or, at the very ...

Given his reputation as a big jerk, it's frequently impossible to determine Lou Reed's genuine motivations. Even so, Metal Machine Music remains particularly enigmatic 25 years after its release. A ...

This is the best news for fans of immersive sound, the Velvet Underground, and trip metal. Surely, we’ve all at least heard of Metal Machine Music by now. Once critically reviled, in time it’s come to ...

Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” a fabled cacaphony of guitar feedback and tape manipulations released 35 years ago, has been transcribed for strings, winds, guitar, accordion, piano and percussion.

Metal Machine Music is the fifth studio album by American rock musician Lou Reed. It was recorded on a three-speed Uher machine and was mastered/engineered by Bob Ludwig.Wikipedia 1Metal Machine Music ...