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 ...

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ... images and music of the star and his collaborators. Lou Reed: Caught Between The Twisted Stars will open on June 9 – visit the NYPL ...

On Saturday, March 29, from 8 PM to midnight, the Made in Cloister Foundation in Naples will host the seventh edition of ...

Uncut's Nay 2025 issue stars Small Faces, a Small Faces CD, Radiohead, Lou Reed, Bootsy Collins, Pink Floyd, Suzanne Vega, ...

His nimble fingers gave us what’s probably the most famous bassline in history: the slippery descent and ascent that forms the framework of Lou ... Reed’s seedy vision of New York.

Lou Reed got his start in the ‘60s fronting the Velvet Underground, the influential noise-rock band that was a commercial bomb but has since become one of rock’s most important groups.

On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that ...