Features
Thursday, May 3 2012
Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground
With exclusive new interviews from Velvet Underground, this is a captivating account of one of the most influential groups in rock history.
Monday, July 28 2008
Part One: The Icons
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.
Monday, November 12 2007
Why Does the Music Have to End?: An Interview with Lou Reed
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.
Reviews
Monday, October 31 2011
Lou Reed and Metallica: Lulu
Have you ever been to a concert where the main act brings out a special guest for a song or two, and the connection is so pure that there is a palpable feeling of excitement in the room? Except in brief, fleeting moments, that doesn’t happen on this album.
Monday, November 3 2008
Lou Reed: Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
Lou Reed's Berlin is a classic. Lou Reed's Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse is not.
Monday, January 8 2007
Lou Reed performs "Berlin"
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...
Monday, October 23 2006
Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby
On this tuneful 1976 gem, the streetwise, gender-bending rebel revealed that all he really wanted was to "play football for the coach".
Wednesday, December 7 2005
Lou Reed: Live at Montreux 2000 [DVD]
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.
Blogs
Wednesday, October 31 2012
The 10 Spookiest Lou Reed Songs
From graphic depictions of violence and death to ominous and grating musical atmospheres, Reed has numerous frightening tunes that can comprise an alternative Halloween soundtrack for those seeking something different from the traditional holiday horror themes.
Friday, April 20 2012
Counterbalance No. 78: Lou Reed's 'Transformer'
The 78th most acclaimed album of all time came and hit the streets, looking for soul food and a place to eat. It’s such a perfect day to discuss this 1972 glam rock spectacular.
Friday, July 9 2010
Lou Reed and Jason Robert Brown: Thoughts on Expectations and Downloading
Here's a little lesson in promotion and audience expectations... Last Friday, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and John Zorn did a performance at the Montreal Jazz…
Friday, September 26 2008
Lou Reed's Berlin (2007)
Music is the most opened ended of mediums. Individuals can influence the reception of a song or a sonic cycle simply by using their own…
News
Tuesday, November 7 2006
Influential rock pioneer Lou Reed's eyes are on the future
Lou Reed isn't one to focus on the past. The music he created in the 1960s and `70s remains a touchstone for the hippest rock…
