Garland Jeffreys was friends with Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen, and highly praised in the Seventies for his songs about ...

So many books and stories abound about Lou Reed that you’d be forgiven for believing that nothing else could be said about ...

Doo Wop records from Lou Reed’s record collection. Courtesy of the New York Public Library. Reed’s album New York, which depicts New York as a crumbling city, inspired the exhibition in part ...

Drawn to music and literature, New York City beckoned as it did to every artsy person ... by such newly discovered minutiae of Reed’s life, it’s hard not to read Lou Reed waiting for Hermes’s next ...

Nobody wrote songs about New York quite like Lou Reed – whether taking time in the park, or going uptown to score drugs. A new exhibit, Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars, from the New ...

Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie (Lulu stands at the back), London, 1973. As he’d recount during the 1978 shows at New York’s Bottom Line (documented on the Take No Prisoners live album ...

In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes is one of the few Reed biographers to find a full person standing in this blast radius of discomfort. Tracing Reed’s life from his early days on ...

By Will Hermes Will Hermes is a culture journalist. This article is adapted from his forthcoming biography “Lou Reed: The King of New York.” Lou Reed strode onto the stage at Max’s Kansas ...

Lou Reed, the guitarist ... gave his archive to the New York Public Library. Reed had kept everything: demo tapes, receipts, custom guitars, tai chi swords, even the certificate from Syracuse ...

A new exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts offers a rare glimpse into the archives of the late songwriter Lou Reed. The New York Public Library honors Lou Reed with a ...