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A Definitive Ranking of Every The Velvet Underground Album
Consequence of Sound via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRanking the four perfect (and the one imperfect) record from the art-rock legends. A Definitive...
Book Review: The Velvet Underground's story and afterlife told in the oral history 'Loaded'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoParents and kids in the crowd were repelled by the “screeching urge of sound” from Lou Reed and his...
“It Startled Me, and I Thought, Did I Just Write 13 Songs With Lou Reed?” Nils Lofgren Reflects on...
Guitar Player via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“He’d been up three nights straight and had finished 13 sets of lyrics,” says the Crazy Horse...
Fairytales of New York: The Velvet Underground, Nico & Warhol
SPIN via AOL· 6 months agoIn the new oral history Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground, veteran culture...
Villains Always Blink Their Eyes: A New Book Captures the Timeless Mean Charisma of Lou Reed
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLou Reed died 10 years ago, in October 2013. But since then, he’s just become a more massive, more...
The Canonization of Lou Reed
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThere were at least three Lou Reeds. First and most enduring was the front man of the Velvet Underground, the greaser poet from Long Island who had a...
The Marriage That Broke Up the Velvet Underground
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyIn honor of Betsey Johnson’s 81st birthday, which was on Aug. 10, I present the unknown story...
'Velvet Underground' director Todd Haynes says pop culture peaked in the 1960s: 'It's all been...
Yahoo Movies via AOL· 1 year agoAndy Warhol (center) with Lou Reed (right) and The Velvet Underground. (Photo: Courtesy Everett...
Why The Velvet Underground hated The Doors
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 1 year agoComposite picture of Nico, Lou Reed and Jim Morrison Fans of The Doors may have been grief-stricken at the news of Jim Morrison’s death, but his...
'Sweet Wild and Vicious' is a tour through the reason Lou Reed deserves biographies: the songs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIn 2023, a decade after the death of Lou Reed — songwriter, singer, guitarist, mercurial rock ‘n’...