Lou Reed and John Cale’s pioneering band created modern music, according to David Bowie, whose biographer has now chronicled their group and their legacy
Lou Reed
‘Houdini used deception to help people recognise the difference between fraud and reality’
Warhol is set to eclipse Picasso with a $200m sale of Marilyn Monroe portrait, breaking records
The singer talks about Live Aid, ex-wives and four decades of Simple Minds
A major refurbishment has been carried out at the former hangout of spies and rockstars
The New York film maker who tumbled upon creativity in the haystacks of Kildare
The musician and artist on CD-roms, cancel culture and her new show, The Art of Falling
One of the best collections of fuzzy indie rock and desert-dry Americana you’ll hear this year
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes
Brit-heavy compilation goes some way to placing the pre-punk scene in context
Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape
A restoring curative for a fearful world, which beautifully balances vitriol and solace
The best songs are slower, less prone to cliché but only in the first half of record
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