During his time at Syracuse University, Lou Reed was a platoon leader for the US Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps, but ...

Thirty-five years ago, in February 1989, those were the five artists competing for the first-ever Grammy recognizing heavy ...

Lou Reed's goal was to be somewhere near as achieved or aspirational as these four authors, looking to the Beat Generation ...

Laurie Anderson, the performance artist widow of Lou Reed, has written a touching eulogy for the late rocker that appeared Thursday in the East Hampton (N.Y.) Star newspaper. Reed died on Oct ...

T o rock snobs, art-school students, and dads everywhere, the Velvet Underground are the cornerstone of rock and roll. They ...

Lou Reed got his start in the ‘60s fronting the Velvet Underground, the influential noise-rock band that was a commercial bomb but has since become one of rock’s most important groups.

A new exhibition in June will belatedly mark Lou Reed’s 80th birthday. But what can we expect from a man who rarely wanted to discuss his past? We dig through the boxes of bar tabs, bootleg ...

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Forty years ago, Bob Geldof had an idea that arguably changed the world, and certainly changed the music world. It is such a ...