Lou Reed

Lou Reed reads from "Pass Thru Fire" at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on December 17, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Lou Reed (Getty Images) more pics » The cover of Pass Thru Fire . Pass Thru Fire: the Collected Lyrics is the latest work by Lou Reed , but it's not a traditional book. It spans more than three decades of lyrics that Reed composed, from the days of the Velvet Underground to his successful solo career with albums like Transformer . Reed showed up at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York yesterday ... Read Full Story

Lou Reed's Berlin is a disaster, taking the listener into a distorted and degenerate demimonde of paranoia, schizophrenia, degradation, pill-induced violence and suicide. There are certain records that are so patently offensive that one wishes to take some kind of physical vengeance on the artists that perpetrate them. Reed's only excuse for this kind of performance (which isn't really Read Full Story

  This past week when I happened across a couple of clips on Lou Reed (who has been in concert lately on the cirucit) I recalled an off-beat encounter many years ago in New York City A friend of mine - Roberta - used to reside at Sutton Place with her husband (an ad agency man) back in the seventies - and was an acquaintance of Lou in some capacity. If I recall correctly, Roberta and I met at Max's Kansas City, a hot little "in" spot in the Village where the celebrity clientele used to throw chick peas at each other. I was ... Read Full Story

Lou Reed, the statesman of rock, rips up the stage with his contained personality in Ghost Stories. Live recordings from the 70’s and 80’s give a more in-depth view of the power and simplicity of Reed’s music, rather than dwelling on controversies and personal life. Guitarist and song-writer for The Velvet Underground in the late 1960’s, Reed quickly ascended to godlike status with a stream of almost yearly albums from the 70’s to present times. He is known to be a difficult character, refusing his role as one of the most influential rock artists of all time on many occasions, particularly as the creator ... Read Full Story

Below is an interview taken from NYmag.com where Lou discusses new bands that he has been enjoying, and plugs his new sirius radio show. Although the most entertaining part would have to be the end, where Mr. Reed, in typical fashion, goes off on the reporter for asking a legitimate question…Oh well, at least we know our Louie will always be a crank. “Last month Lou Reed became the latest rock icon to foray onto satellite radio when he launched “New York Shuffle,” a weekly free-form show on Sirius co-hosted by producer Hal Willner (who also collaborated on Reed¹s new concert doc, Berlin ). ... Read Full Story