LOU REED & METALLICA - Award-Winning Director Darren Aronofsky To Direct First Video From Lulu
November 3, 2011, 13 years ago
According to Yahoo! News, award-winning director Darren Aronofsky will direct a music video from the new LOU REED & METALLICA album, Lulu.
Best-known for his Oscar-nominated films Black Swan and The Wrestler, Aronofsky will produce a video for the track, 'Iced Honey'. Scenes will be shot in the San Francisco Bay area and will be available for viewing later this month.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said in a statement Thursday that working with Reed and Aronofsky is "living the dream."
Ulrich called making this album and video a monumental chapter in his life.
"As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough, now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite filmmakers since his first movie, Pi."Read more at Yahoo! News.
The Lulu album is projected to sell between 12,000 and 15,000 copies in the US in it's first week of release, according to industry website Hits Daily Double.
On Friday evening (November 11th), Lou Reed and Metallica will be performing live for a special radio broadcast in Germany on 1LIVE, that will also be webcast on Einslive.de and Metallica.de.
Four hundred lucky fans will be in the audience, some even getting a chance to ask the guys about Lulu! The broadcast will also air on a number of Germany’s public broadcast network stations either live or at a later point, and all participating stations will also host the live stream on their websites.
For more info on the 1LIVE radio live broadcast/online-webcast, or to enter to win tickets to the event held in Cologne, please visit Einslive.de and Metallica.de. Met Club members should log in to Metallica.com for a chance to win tickets through the Club.
This event will only be webcast in Germany, however within hours of completion, it will be on LouReedAndMetallica.com for you in its entirety.
Lou Reed & Metallica's Lulu album is out now disturbing fans worldwide! LouReedMetallicaTV have posted highlights from the Lulu Listening Party that took place on October 24th in New York City.
The complete Lulu tracklisting is as follows:
'Brandenburg Gate' (4:19)
'The View' (5:17)
'Pumping Blood' (7:24)
'Mistress Dread' (6:52)
'Iced Honey' (4:36)
'Cheat On Me' (11:26)
'Frustration' (8:33)
'Little Dog' (8:01)
'Dragon' (11:08)
'Junior Dad' (19:28)
The entire album is streaming online here.
Lulu was co-produced by Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner who has produced albums for Reed, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, and LAURIE ANDERSON, among others and Greg Fidelman. Fidelman also mixed the record.
A full EPK for Lulu can now be seen below: