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 asked about when Lou Reed felt that he’d truly nailed his sound, as a musician, he travelled back in time to the highs ...

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 ...

Producer Bob Ezrin called on Lou Reed to work on one of the band's biggest musical departures during the early 1980s.

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As part of the celebration around the late Lou Reed’s 80 th birthday, an album of his earliest demos — comprising a number of ...

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 ...

Dozens of previously unreleased songs by Velvet Underground founding member Lou Reed were recently discovered on a cassette tape at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa. The tunes, dating from ...

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 ...