Lou Reed died on Sunday at age 71 at his home on New York's Long Island. Liver disease was the listed cause of death. There are lots of great obituaries and remembrances of Reed, whose songwriting ...

Lou Reed has recorded two new songs inspired by the documentary film Nanking. The songs 'Gravity' and 'Safety Zone' can be streamed on Reed's website. Nanking focuses on the "Nanking Massacre" which ...

Lou Reed got his start ... song cycle – a pattern Reed would follow over the years. He hasn’t always made the most listener-friendly music (despite scoring a Top 20 hit with ‘Walk on the ...

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island, New York. During his teens, he received electroshock treatment for depression, and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the ...

A "lost" concert film by director/cinematographer Ed Lachman of Lou Reed and John Cale's Songs For Drella album has been found – and it's coming to streaming. ORDER NOW: Paul McCartney is on ...

Not merely an addendum to Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground, Ed Lachman’s Songs For Drella is a ravishingly beautiful, sometimes thrilling audiovisual recording of a song cycle by Lou Reed and John ...