David Byrne has revealed the strange advice given to him by Lou Reed during their odd encounter in the mid-1970s, while Reed ...

"He wrote stories so painfully real that rock’n’roll still bears their scars." ...

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 ...

In a new interview, chatting with Lou Reed's widow Laurie Anderson, Lars Ulrich reveals what Metallica were "unprepared" for while recording the collaborative, divisive Lulu album. The two spoke for a ...

Lou Reed once named his favourite lyric from his own catalogue, forgoing his work for The Velvet Underground in favour of a heavy solo effort.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lou Reed in the little-seen "No Money Down" music video, 1986. (Photo: Sony Music) Lou Reed’s seminal work with the Velvet ...

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 ...

In 1973, Lou Reed was interested in the future. He had released his debut solo album the previous year and had no plans to let his previous band, the Velvet Underground, define his entire career. But ...

The musician soundtracked a Paris runway show debuting the fashion house’s new couture collection ...

The new Lou Reed exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts features a vast array of his personal artifacts. NY Post photo composite “His father was an accountant and taught Lou to ...

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 ...

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 ...