Having encountered the poet and writer as a student, New York songsmith Lou Reed weaved Syracuse advisor Delmore Schwarz's ...

Lou Reed was a titan of underground music, but the former Velvet Underground songwriter held an unexpected appreciation for mainstream icon Bruce Springsteen.

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 ...

On this day in 2008, Leonard Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he was introduced by Lou Reed.

Available on The Week Bookshop Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes Lou Reed, the lead vocalist of the Velvet Underground, who died in 2013, already has a longish shelf of biographies.

Lou Reed has recorded two new songs inspired by the documentary film Nanking. The songs 'Gravity' and 'Safety Zone' can be streamed on Reed's website. Nanking focuses on the "Nanking Massacre" which ...

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.