Several salutes to Lou Reed’s most returned release, featuring Thurston Moore, Pharmakon, Drew MacDowall and others ...

To be clear, these are not professional recordings; they’re loose versions of the songs sung into a cheap recorder, and consist of Reed on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica while Cale sings ...

To hear the first few seconds of the video above may catch you by surprise: It’s Lou Reed announcing the title of a song while declaring he wrote the words and music. Only it’s a song we know very ...

Long before the experimental rock deity fronted the Velvet Underground and shook up the New York music scene, Lou Reed was a self-taught musician, shy and searching for his sound. A Long Island teen, ...

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 ...

Lou Reed, the 71 year-old singer and musician who died last Sunday, has experienced a massive surge of interest to his music and has seen sales spike, sending his albums Transformer and Rock 'N' Roll ...

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 ...

The two musicians co-founded The Velvet Underground in 1965. By THR Staff John Cale, who co-founded The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed in 1965, has commented on the death of his bandmate. In a ...