The biggest news comes via the Julian Schnabel film Lou Reed's Berlin. ThePlaylist saw it and said "If you don't love Berlin the album (like know it front to back), this movie might not be for you ...

Lou Reed first came to acclaim ... The Velvets dressed in black, wore dark sunglasses, looked dour and made disturbing music. They were not a band made for the peace-and-love flower-power hippie ...

Black leather jackets and giant sunglasses have become respective American ... He was talking about Kanye West, but also Lou Reed, and anyone out there who’s really, truly been listening.

Reed sporting his trademark leather jacket and aviator sunglasses, Anderson tossing a cupid's-bow smile in our direction. "Lou Reed," Will Hermes' captivating new biography, fires on all cylinders ...

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

But an intimate, still. Or the illusion of one. The great virtue of “Lou Reed: The King of New York,” the new and very fine biography by Will Hermes, is that it’s really two biographies ...