“I DON’T KNOW how to write songs,” Lou Reed says. We’re in a hotel dining room in Denver, where he is trying to cajole a decent meal out of a very flustered waiter, less than two hours before he is to ...

A cassette containing 12 unheard songs that Lou Reed recorded for Andy Warhol was discovered in the Warhol Museum archives, Variety reports. “It sounds like he recorded them in his apartment with an ...

The first Lou Reed song I ever really listened to was “What’s Good?” It was 1992, and though Marky Mark had recently brought the sloping bassline from Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” to the American ...

When an artist the stature of Lou Reed passes (as he did on October 27, 2013, at the age of 71), it is inevitable that people will reflect back on their experiences with that artist. For most of us, ...

On Sunday, legendary rocker Lou Reed passed away at the age of 71. (MORE: Rock Legend Lou Reed Dead at 71) Reed embodied New York cool and the downtown culture of the 1960s and ’70s. His influence — ...

With Lou Reed’s wavering tenor and jangling guitar ringing in my ears, I stared down at the cassette tape in my hand. Was it possible I had really discovered an unknown Reed album? I was at the Andy ...

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 ...

As part of the celebration around the late Lou Reed’s 80 th birthday, an album of his earliest demos — comprising a number of Velvet Underground classics recorded in 1965, along with several songs ...

Lou Reed’s fearless legacy still inspires. His biggest hit came when no one expected it, proving his genius was never ...

The Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed was about as cuddly as a cactus and as complimentary as a compilation of X-Factor ...

Rough versions of 12 previously unreleased songs by Lou Reed recorded for Andy Warhol have been discovered on a cassette tape from 1975, stored in the archives of the Warhol Museum. The songs, which ...

Rough versions of 12 previously unreleased songs by Lou Reed recorded for Andy Warhol have been discovered on a cassette tape from 1975, stored in the archives of the Warhol Museum. The songs, which ...