Lou Reed is the face of the Velvet Underground. The band would not have had the impact that it did without the contributions ...

If it’s drama you’re after, well, songs don’t get much more dramatic than ‘God Only Knows’, a masterpiece that Reed ranked among his 100 favourite songs of all time. It not only sings of devotion—it ...

Val Kilmer passed away on April 1, 2025. With his passing, some of his old social media posts have resurfaced, which included ...

Sometimes serendipity plays a part in getting an album over the line and that was certainly the case when Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen were both working on albums at The Record Plant ...

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.

The late, great Lou Reed’s long, twisty solo career was full of peaks and valleys. One of the peaks came in 1982, when Reed got together with the former Richard Hell guitarist Robert Quine and ...

Though known for their heaviness, there is one song in the Metallica catalog that has moved Kirk Hammett to tears.

Lou Reed, portrait, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1972. (Photo Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns) The Top Gun star also recounted a similarly uncomfortable meeting with Lou Reed, the onetime frontman of the ...

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 ...