Part One: The Icons

By PopMatters Staff

With DETOURS, the PopMatters staff is celebrating the strange, bizarre, lovely, and funny albums that have emerged from an artist’s desire to try something different. Some of these detours have lead to modern-day classics. Some have lead to laugh-inducing commercial disasters. And others... others are just plain weird. [28 July 2008]

Why Does the Music Have to End?: An Interview with Lou Reed

By Evan Sawdey

Three decades letter, Metal Machine Music gets a classical reworking. Lou Reed talks to PopMatters about this legendary album and Zeitkratzer's interpretation of it. [12 November 2007]

Lou Reed: Berlin: Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse

By Craig Carson

Lou Reed's Berlin is a classic. Lou Reed's Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse is not. [3 November 2008]

Lou Reed performs “Berlin”

By Carolyn Turgeon

When I heard that Lou Reed would be spending four nights in Brooklyn performing his landmark 1973 album, Berlin, in its entirety, it seemed impossible to pass up. Of course, it seemed equally impossible that it’d be any good... [8 January 2007]

Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby

By John Bergstrom

On this tuneful 1976 gem, the streetwise, gender-bending rebel revealed that all he really wanted was to "play football for the coach". [23 October 2006]

Lou Reed: Live at Montreux 2000 [DVD]

By Jon Langmead

The strongest point of this collection may be that the song selection makes a strong case for his work from the past 20 years without putting it into contrast with his Velvet Underground and '70s solo work. [7 December 2005]

Lou Reed: Spanish Fly: Live in Spain [DVD]

By Nicholas Taylor

While his music is brimming with life and action, his stage presence has always left something to be desired. [16 June 2005]

Lou Reed: The Raven

By Adrien Begrand

    Lou Reed: Ecstasy

By Jason Thompson

Short Ends and Leader: Lou Reed’s Berlin (2007)

Influential rock pioneer Lou Reed’s eyes are on the future [6 November 2006]