Just as prone to a withering takedown as effusive praise, one unlikely artist managed to stand tall in Lou Reed's estimations ...

The catchy cowbell and guitar work on “Charley’s Girl” are great; it’s easily one of Reed’s more underrated tracks. “Kicks” delves into drugs and death like many of Reed’s previous songs, but he uses ...

One of Reed’s songs tells of his life pre-fame, when his teenage years were spent in a torturous psychiatric hospital: ‘Kill ...

In new remarks for this week’s baseball, history, and politics reissue, we apply Lou Reed’s classic 1989 album New York to this week’s events in Washington and elsewhere, a discussion which also ...

There wasn’t really a band called The Primitives. “The Ostrich” was a studio creation, fashioned by Reed and his fellow employees of the budget Pickwick label. But it was decided that the Reed-penned ...