Lou Reed
My Favorite Soundtrack: 'Up the Academy'
'Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy' was a commercial bomb but its soundtrack is ace.
Hey New York, Come Celebrate Music Photographer Mick Rock with Two Events This Week
One of the most iconic rock photographers ever is having a gallery show in Tribeca and an hour-long conversation at the Ace Hotel with two other rock documentary heavy-hitters, Bob Gruen and Legs McNeil.
Your Homework Assignment for Today Is To Watch All These Sweet, Rare Concert Videos from Every Cool Artist Ever
The YouTube channel Music Vault is adding 12,000 concert videos of everyone from Lou Reed to the Sex Pistols to Blink-182, and you should watch them right now.
Best Of The Rest: Turning People Into Watermelons, Kaleidoscopic Faces, And Lou Reed's Adaptation Of "The Raven"
The week in creativity is as hypnotizing as ever...
Mark E Smith Bit Down on my Throat Like a Rottweiler on a New-Born
In a new feature, we ask some of our favourite music journalists to cast their lager-braised minds back to the times they met their musical idols.
Beyond the Call: A Memory of Lou Reed
I met Lou Reed and his wife, Laurie Anderson, through a mutual friend. Over the last three years of his life, my girlfriend Vera and I got to spend a little time with them, dining together and going to the theater. It was a double pleasure for me and...
The Great Rockstars Will All be Dead Soon
We are soon to be orphans, but there may just be one last great wail left in us yet.
What Lou Reed Taught Me, by Legs McNeil
Lou mined the depth and articulation of sheer desperation. Whether I was waiting for my drug dealer, or trying to get off during sex, or some other private weirdness I was too mortified to admit, Lou'd already been there, and he'd come back with a song.
I Thought That Lou Reed Would Outlive Death Itself
A personal tribute to rock's last bloody-minded genius.
My Dear Friend Lou Reed, by Mick Rock
If he was your friend, he was one of the sweetest people you could ever know. He was a man capable of deep empathy. I loved him for over 40 years.