Lou Reed, the singer and songwriter whose work as a solo artist and as the leader of cult-favorite band The Velvet Underground influenced generations of musicians, has died at age 71. Rumors of ...

Peraino With Lou Reed’s wavering tenor and jangling guitar ... as most were, in Warhol’s handwriting. The initials “A.W.” were scrawled on the first side, and “Philosophy Songs (from ...

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music was more than an hour of feedback and noise with no noticeable structure. A new tribute album called Metal Machine Muzak interprets the spirit behind that work.

In 1960, a wiry 18-year-old named Lou Reed transferred from NYU's Bronx campus to Syracuse University. He spent four years making music, poetry, prose and problems before graduating with honors.

Featuring the earliest known renditions of several Velvet Underground classics, this archival set of acoustic demos highlights a formative period in Lou Reed and John Cale’s artistic partnership.

The brilliant discontents of Lou Reed. A new biography examines the enigma of the musician. To write about Lou Reed is to fight with Lou Reed. It is difficult to say, however, who started what ...

Early in the movie Almost Famous, the gruff journalist Lester Bangs sizes up the young music writer William Miller with a litmus test: “And you like Lou Reed?” William, at once cocky and ...

Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars' opens up the Velvet Underground legend's archives to the public. By Fred Sahai Lou Reed fans rejoice. The innovative singer-songwriter’s vast archive ...

In the 1990s, rock 'n' roll colossus Lou Reed (1942-2013) and his equally prodigious partner, multimedia visionary Laurie Anderson, were a common sight around Manhattan, engrossed in conversation ...

Recently, author Neil Gaiman posted on Mastodon a link to a blog titled “The 20 Best Lou Reed Songs of All Time” with this comment: “the first time I’ve read an article that I could swear ...

Lou Reed was indisputably one of the most provocative musicians the rock world has known, releasing songs about heroin abuse and sadomasochism on his very first album (“The Velvet Underground ...

THE NUMEROUS album tributes to the late Lou Reed have often taken The Velvet Underground route. Not for Bill Bentley, the Texas-based writer, one-time Sterling Morrison bandmate, Reed’s US publicist ...