{"id":29071,"date":"2024-03-21T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-book-to-explore-the-music-of-lou-reed-and-the-velvet-underground\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:02:35","slug":"new-book-to-explore-the-music-of-lou-reed-and-the-velvet-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-book-to-explore-the-music-of-lou-reed-and-the-velvet-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"New book to explore the music of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-20\/M_SweetWildViciousLouReed_032024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Trouser Press Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The music of <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> will be the subject of a new book coming this spring.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is author <strong>Jim Higgins<\/strong>\u2019 look at the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer\u2019s catalog of music. In it, he shares &#8220;descriptions, details, analysis and appraisals&#8221; of the music Reed made from the \u201860s until his death in 2013.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Jim Higgins takes the reader on a long walk through one of the most complicated, controversial and influential of rock oeuvres in terms that are, in turn, scholarly, hip, informative and personal,&#8221; says Trouser Press&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Ira Robbins<\/strong>. &#8220;The unstated goal of books like this is to make you go back and listen anew to records you thought you knew front to back; <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Sweet, Wild and Vicious<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> achieves that and more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> will be released in paperback and eBook on April 19; it&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trouserpressbooks.com\/store\/p\/sweet-wild-and-vicious-listening-to-lou-reed-and-the-velvet-underground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> now.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lou Reed\u2019s music is also being celebrated with an upcoming tribute album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed, <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">which will be released on vinyl for Record Store Day on April 20, with CD and digital release happening the same day. It features covers of Reed tunes by the likes of <strong>Keith Richards<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Jett &amp; the Blackhearts,<\/strong> <strong>Rufus Wainwright<\/strong>, <strong>Rickie Lee Jones<\/strong> and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouser Press Books The music of Lou Reed will be the subject of a new book coming this spring.\u00a0 Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground is author Jim Higgins\u2019 look at the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer\u2019s catalog of music. In it, he<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-book-to-explore-the-music-of-lou-reed-and-the-velvet-underground\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}