Lou Reed was more than a musician. He was a poet with lungs of smoke and velvet. He crafted a blend of pop, psychedelic rock, and all things avant-garde, writing songs that were more like epic poems ...

Lou Reed's 1975 release Metal Machine Music (RCA) was a complete departure from "Sally Can't Dance," "Sweet Jane," "Heroin," "Satellite Of Love" and "Walk On The Wild Side." The album was a double LP ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

All of the KCRW DJs were devastated to hear about the loss of Lou Reed and we communicate our grief in the best way we know how — through the music itself. The above photo hangs in Master Control, a ...

Originally released in 2001 director Bob Smeatons 80 minute Classic Albums Transformer was universally praised for its wellconstructed anatomy of a touchstone album Now expanded to interweave the ...

“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, tell stories, ...

A previously unreleased demo of a Lou Reed song called "Men of Good Fortune" has been released. The track will appear on Words & Music, May 1965, the first installment of the upcoming Lou Reed Archive ...

NEW YORK — I can be fickle, or maybe it’s my ADHD. I’ll be all in on an album or an artist and then, gradually or in an instant, I’ll be out, onto the next thing. I still listen to Roxy Music, The ...

On Sunday, legendary rocker Lou Reed passed away at the age of 71. (MORE: Rock Legend Lou Reed Dead at 71) Reed embodied New York cool and the downtown culture of the 1960s and ’70s. His influence — ...