After Andy Warhol’s death in 1987, Velvet Underground founders Lou Reed and John Cale reunited for Songs for Drella, a song cycle about their erstwhile benefactor. Performed at the Brooklyn Academy of ...

"Pick up the receiver, and there's a dial tone. That flat, unbroken sound."December 1966. A few months before the Velvet ...

The curators, Don Fleming and Jason Stern, take Reed’s literariness as seriously as he took it. In contrast with Reed’s early work with the Velvet Underground, the music never overwhelms the lyrics in ...

Reed died in 2013. A new collection, recorded in 1965, captures the earliest-known versions of some of the Velvet Underground's best known songs, including "Heroin" and "Pale Blue Eyes." This is FRESH ...

A new book will compile the writings of Lou Reed—an accomplished tai chi practitioner from the 1980s until his death—on music, meditation, and martial arts. The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi, ...

In the spring of 1965, Lou Reed was barely 23 and less than a year removed from his college graduation. He had just experienced his first musical success, fronting a hastily thrown-together band ...