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

After three outstanding albums of boundary-pushing and transgressive proto-punk, there came a point where Lou Reed grew frustrated with the band's direction.

Founding member Lou Reed, alongside John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, revealed the name’s origins in ...

The Velvet Underground are one of the 20th century ... The original lineup led by Lou Reed (which saw a couple of changes before the band broke up in the early ‘70s) made only four albums ...

If it’s drama you’re after, well, songs don’t get much more dramatic than ‘God Only Knows’, a masterpiece that Reed ranked ...

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.

From his work as part of The Velvet Underground to his solo releases, so much of Lou Reed’s art rock and proto-punk works have aged gloriously well. The world of post-punk is a unique one ...

But he had to attend to his latest project, The Velvet Underground and the multimedia production ... “It was a show by and for freaks.” Lou Reed “It was a show by and for freaks, of which there turned ...

Lou Reed, the punk poet of rock ‘n’ roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the Velvet Underground and remained a vital solo performer for decades after ...

To celebrate what would have been Lou Reed’s 82nd birthday, Keith Richards has released a video showing him recording a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting For The Man”.

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island ... and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the Velvet Underground in the mid-1960s with multi-instrumentalist John Cale ...