Lou Reed, both as a solo artist and as a member of the Velvet Underground, had an extraordinary influence on the history of rock and roll from the 1960s through the 1990s. Brian Eno once observed that hardly anyone bought the Velvet...

Lou Reed, (born March 2, 1942), is an influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973). The band gained little mainstream...

LOU REED With Luna At: The Orpheum Theatre, Saturday One of the proudest-sounding songs Lou Reed and his backing trio played Saturday night at the Orpheum Theatre was a thumper called "Doing the Things that We Want to," which is about exactly...

DAVID BAUDER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-18-2003 Lou Reed retrospective is all for the better By DAVID BAUDER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 06-18-2003, Wednesday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B ...

“Life is short. There’s no reason why you can’t love many different ways of creating,” said Vanity Fair and GQ photographer Mark Seliger at his 401 Projects gallery in the far West Village, where an exhibit called “Visions of Rock” debuted on Saturday, Sept....

MAY WE JUST SAY … that this month already looks to be an improvement over the last one …. Now if only all you ladies would ditch your “cute” cartoon-festooned rain booties, we could get on with a civilization! Somebody bring Robert De Niro a...

Why is this guy surviving, who has made a career out of terminal twitches ever since the Velvet Underground surfaced dead on arrival in 1966? Well, for one thing, the Velvets emerged from under one of the many entrepreneurial wings of Andy Warhol, who has managed to accomplish more in this culture while acting (in public at least) like a total autistic null-node than almost any other figure of the 60s. Lou learned a lot from Andy, mainly about becoming a successful public personality by selling your own pri...

[If Andy] Warhol's paintings and films were merely reflecting the commercial day to day existence of Twentieth Century America then the Velvets' achievements were more specific still. They were holding up an auditory mirror of middle-Sixties New York with its suicides and addictions, its downer trips, loneliness and utter joylessness. And like any well-conceived horror film, the Velvet Underground had a sick attraction all their own—that gory magnetism that draws passers-by to the sites...

Lou Reed has always steadfastly maintained that the Velvet Underground were just another Long Island rock 'n' roll band, but in the past, he really couldn't be blamed much if people didn't care to take him seriously. With a reputation based around such non-American Bandstand masterpieces as "Heroin" and "Sister Ray," not to mention a large avant-garde following which tended to downplay the Velvets' more Top-40 roots, the group certainly didn�...