Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, director of the feature documentary film “Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart,” confirmed Reed’s death today to USA Today. Reed had a liver transplant in May ...

The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed wasn't always one to play nice with other musicians... and journalists as a whole.

Rock and Roll Heart isn’t bad ... OK – now we’re talking about a more typical Lou Reed number. Oddly enough, it comes off another of his more accessible, upbeat albums – Sally Can ...

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.

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, but they helped shape the course that punk, art and ...