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 was ...
On Sunday, legendary rocker Lou Reed passed away at the age of 71. (MORE: Rock Legend Lou Reed Dead at 71) Reed embodied New York cool and the downtown culture of the 1960s and ’70s. His influence — ...
The horrific but cathartic eighth track from 1982's junkie's journal The Blue Mask renders the psychosis of drug paranoia in its most visceral terms, with a harrowed-sounding Reed half-screaming the ...
Before the Velvet Underground, and before he became one of the most important songwriters of his generation, Lou Reed was a songwriter for hire at a company called Pickwick Records. He churned out ...
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. LOU REED ...
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 ...
Before The Velvet Underground, c. January/February 1965, there was The Primitives. Left to right: Tony Conrad, Walter De Maria, Lou Reed, John CaleThe Lou Reed Archive, Music Division, The New York ...