This iconic track is still a classic over 50 years later.

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 was usually extremely honest about other albums, but he thought this record completely achieved everything it set ...

Lou Reed voiced many opinions that should have been kept inside, but never was that more the case than when he said Tom Waits ...

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 ...

Since his earlier days as a songwriter and in-house performer for the low-budget label Pickwick Records in New York City, Reed wrote a collection of songs for other artists, including hisfuture Velvet ...

Forty-two minutes northeast of Lou Reed’s hometown of Freeport, New York, I am in my childhood bedroom, curiously absorbing a videotape I narrowly understand at about thirteen years old. I had heard ...

Lou Reed remains a crucial reference point for rock and art-pop, and in 2026 his songs will return to a Berlin stage in tribute form. According to the event listing from Maschinenhaus in the ...

Lou Reed might have declared himself "The Original Wrapper" on 1986's Mistrial, but the underlying affinity he possessed for hip-hop music didn't fully manifest until he signed with Seymour Stein's… ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a long list of artists I wish I’d had the chance to interview before they shuffled off this mortal coil, but the late, great Lou Reed isn’t among them. It’s not that I’m not a fan of the man’s ...