Reed’s version of “Sweet Jane” never saw such chart success and hasn’t seen a boost from “Stranger Things,” according to ...

After Andy Warhol’s death in 1987, Velvet Underground founders Lou Reed and John Cale reunited for Songs for Drella, a song cycle about their erstwhile benefactor. Performed at the Brooklyn Academy of ...

Lou Reed’s seminal work with the Velvet Underground is back in the spotlight thanks to the tandem announcements of the Hal Wilner-produced all-star album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet ...

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed was born on March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1965, he co-founded the Velvet Underground, a rock band managed by Andy Warhol. Reed went solo in the ...

New Yorkers are always craving new sensations. Even with jazz clubs, concert stadiums, and subway performances scattered — and sometimes moving — throughout the city, new music can typically find a ...

Lou Reed‘s birthday is Saturday (March 2); he would’ve been 82, and to celebrate a new tribute album has been announced. It’s titled The Power Of The Heart and is out April 20 via Light in the Attic.

Apparently, Lou Reed was the H&R Block of classic rockers: The man kept his receipts. “His father was an accountant and taught Lou to keep receipts, keep records and all that sort of thing,” said ...

Lou Reed was a rock 'n' roll hero. You hear that a lot about artists. Sometimes it's true; most times it's hyperbole to elevate a mediocre-to-middling career to someplace it reached for but never ...

Patti Smith already gave a brief statement to Rolling Stone about the passing of her friend Lou Reed, and now in a piece for The New Yorker, she’s written a much longer eulogy. It begins: On Sunday ...

Reed died in 2013. A new collection, recorded in 1965, captures the earliest-known versions of some of the Velvet Underground's best known songs, including "Heroin" and "Pale Blue Eyes." This is FRESH ...

Lou Reed‘s first expansive book of lyrics, which has been out of print for years, will be reissued by Faber & Faber on November 7th. I’ll be Your Mirror: Collected Lyrics will feature introductions by ...

The two parties first performed together in 2009 at the 25th anniversary concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Madison Square Garden. Reed had originally hoped to record new versions of some ...