The late, great Lou Reed’s long, twisty solo career was full of peaks and valleys. One of the peaks came in 1982, when Reed got together with the former Richard Hell guitarist Robert Quine and ...

From his work as part of The Velvet Underground to his solo releases, so much of Lou Reed’s art rock and proto-punk works have aged gloriously well. The world of post-punk is a unique one ...

I even spent time with art on the walls. But was I ever actually Lou Reed?” Williams added, “If he’s not Lou Reed, who is he? And who have I been playing with?” Check out “I Used To Be ...

Before Lou Reed formed The Velvet Underground, he worked as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. Songs he wrote from that mid-’60s era, recorded by artists including The Primitives (with ...

Before co-founding the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed was a staff songwriter for other artists at Pickwick Records. Now, his mid-1960s songs, performed by assorted artists on the label (with ...

In his new book, 'Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground,' Milwaukee's Jim Higgins does a deep dive into each of the releases by the VU and by Reed, and adds ...

Lou Reed‘s birthday is Saturday (March 2); he ... Check out his cover, along with the cover art and tracklist to the tribute, below.

Will Hermes admits he’s on a fool’s errand with the opening quote of the preface to his 529-page biography of Lou Reed. The mercurial genius ... “Business is art.” Reed hoped to cleave a path down the ...

The brilliant discontents of Lou Reed. A new biography examines the enigma ... As the critic Ellen Willis once wrote: “Like pop art, which was very much a part of the Velvets’ world, it ...

Lou Reed died 10 years ago ... She’s every inch his equal as an art-maker. It was so cool that the two of them got together and became a team, even though they were still doing their own ...

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.

There’s also a doo-wop serenade, “Gee Whiz,” recorded in 1958 when Reed was just 16. Billed as “the inaugural title in the ongoing Lou Reed Archival Series,” the album is released on the ...