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

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 ...

Lou Reed had many regrets in life, from his years as a heroin addict to creating 'Lulu', but his lack of relationship with ...

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.

These three famous rock stars were heavily influenced by jazz, and even diehard fans may not know how deep that influence ...

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 ...

Lou Reed grew up in Long Island, New York. During his teens, he received electroshock treatment for depression, and would later cite the experience as damaging and transformative. He formed the ...