'Words & Music, May 1965,' a Lou Reed album containing early demos of Velvet Underground songs and unreleased material, is due in August.

“Follow the dotted line,” Lou Reed grumbled at me in 2004. “Look, put all the songs together and it’s certainly an autobiography – just not necessarily mine. I write about other people ...

Metallica and Lou Reed have announced that their forthcoming collaborative album will be titled Lulu. The project, which will include ten new compositions, was inspired by two plays about an ...

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music was more than an hour of feedback and noise with no noticeable structure. A new tribute album called Metal Machine Muzak interprets the spirit behind that work.

The list of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground Albums Ranked Worst to Best includes only studio albums, but a couple of live releases, both from 1974, are essential listens: Reed's Rock n Roll ...

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The Playlist Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs Hear tracks by Weyes Blood, Kelela, Mightmare and others. Share full article ...

The compilation will feature interpretations of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground songs from a list of artists that includes Angel Olsen, the Afghan Whigs, Joan Jett, Lucinda Williams, Rufus ...

Before co-founding the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed was a staff songwriter for other artists at Pickwick Records. Now, his mid-1960s songs, performed by assorted artists on the label (with ...

The album takes its name from his mumbled introductions to the songs on the reel-to-reel tape recording. “Words and music: Lou Reed,” he says, establishing his authorial rights.

Lou Reed’s Cause of Death Revealed, More Rockers Pay Tribute To Music Legend Graham Hartmann Published: October 28, 2013 Mark Metcalfe, Getty Images ...

It's been said that the first album by Lou Reed's Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground and Nico, 1967) only sold a thousand copies but everyone who bought it started a band.