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Velvet Underground: Loaded

A half century ago yesterday, The Velvet Underground released their final album "Loaded." An ironic title, perhaps, in that this was their final bid for commercial respectability and as such wanted to pack an album that was "Loaded" with hits that would never in a million

Lou Reed: New York

The deluxe reissue of one of Lou reed's greatest albums is a treat to listen to and sadly its theme hasen't aged a bit since it first came out in 1989. I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin writ on it that

Happy 4th

New York's closed. Come back some other time.

Long before I lived there or even spent time twice a month there working on radio spots, I had been to New York lots of times for family trips. It was a hop skip and a jump from Pittsburgh. Sometimes we'd fly, other times we'd drive.