Lou Reed

Nine Poppy Picks From ?uestlove's Non-Rap Productions

?uestlove's stock is at an all-time high. His stint as house band-leader on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was recently complimented by a profile in The New Yorker; you might even peep his face on subway billboards around the city as he clocks up his Sonos endorsement money. Tonight he'll be spinning ... More >>

Live: The Joshua Light Show With John Zorn, Lou Reed, Bill Laswell, Milford Graves, And Terry & Gyan Riley

The Joshua Light Show with John Zorn/Lou Reed/Bill Laswell/Milford Graves and Terry Riley/Gyan Riley Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Friday, September 14 Better than: Slippin' into darkness. "Just to watch people in weird shirts playing funny-shaped instruments is not visually on the same ... More >>

10 No-Brainer Rock Legends Never Nominated For The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame

This weekend, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2012, which consists of Donovan, the Beastie Boys, the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, the Small Faces and the Faces, blues guitarist Freddie King, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N' Roses, although not lead singer Axl Rose, wh ... More >>

Presenting The Elite Eight: John Coltrane, Alicia Keys, Blondie, Neil Diamond, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, Wu-Tang Clan, And Rakim

After three weeks of feverish clicking and arguing, the final eight contenders in our search for the quintessential New York musician have been finalized. Representing the Uptown division are No. 1 seed John Coltrane and No. 14 seed Alicia Keys; No. 12 seed Blondie will have it out with No. 3 seed N ... More >>

Lou Reed And The Velvet Underground (3) Match Wits With The Magnetic Fields (14) In SOTC's March Madness

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is a little jam-packed today. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full, updated bracket is here.) Here ... More >>

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

EMA skips SXSW for NYC

Live: Das Racist, Rahzel, Laurie Anderson And Many Others Play Philip Glass's Tibet House Benefit At Carnegie Hall

Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel Carnegie Hall Monday, February 13 Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live. Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>

STARRY NIGHT

Philip Glass curates the Tibet House jam

We Love to Hate Nickelback (and Lulu)

Two recent bad decisions—one in Detroit, one on an album—bring out the knives

O SUPERJAM

Roulette reopens with a bang

Download: The Churning "The Mite," By Jenny Scheinman's Mischief And Mayhem

Michael Wilson​ Already renowned as arranger to the stars and New York's go-to violinist, Jenny Scheinman is building a new reputation as a formidable bandleader as well; her emotive scrapes and dramatic whines now dance around the propulsive jazz-rock of a newish quartet. The band—bassi ... More >>

POE IT

Edgar Allan Poe gets the Lou Reed treatment

SIREN SONG

Urban merpeople, rejoice!

Top Five Even Less Appropriate Lou Reed Songs For Susan Boyle To Sing

Maybe like an a capella vocal-loop thing, I don't know​So Lou Reed has straight-up cockblocked Susan Boyle's attempt to sing his "Perfect Day" on America's Got Talent, apparently sending the reality-TV songstress back to England in tears. Explanation: "A source said Reed's reason for the last- ... More >>

Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!

Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>

Week in Review: We Are A Viking Raiding Party of Good Will and Intention

These Are Powers, Secret Project Robot, Confetti. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that everybody finally went outside for the summer, we hung out on a few rooftops ourselves. Twin Sister? Rooftop. The SFNY party? Rooftop. Good Co.? BBQ, outdoors, ground floor. So yeah. The rain drove us in ... More >>

Tonight! Julianna Barwick, Todd P, Ryan Schreiber, Blissed Out, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Moby, And Black Keys

via PitchforkThe Barwick-meister​Tonight, Julianna Barwick mimics the cries of weeping dolphins and angels with Bieber Fever at Le Poisson Rouge, her latest vocal-loop monastery. For the show's after-party, venture out to Monster Island Basement, where she's spinning her first DJ set alongside ... More >>

'Benefit Concert for Anthology Film Archives'

FREEZE FRAME

Lou Reed steps up to co-curate the NY Photo Festival

Interview: Heartless Bastards on Erika Wennerstrom's Huge Voice, Male Groupies, and Hookers in Flip-Flops

Erika Wennerstrom: "I want to sound like Nico and Lou Reed." photo by Cambria HarkeyDave Colvin, Erika Wennerstrom, Jesse Ebaugh Heartless Bastards are having an incredible year: a spot on The Late Show with David Letterman, great reviews for their latest record The Mountain, and an appearance on ... More >>

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 (Featuring U2, The Boss, The Black Eyed Peas, And Some Dude Named Mick)

Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's benefit-concert extravaganza ... More >>

Heroin Successfully Used to Treat Heroin Addiction

​Well, it's about time. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine based on research conducted by (natch) Canadians suggests that the best way to treat heroin addicts is... prescriptions for heroin. Apparently a lot of heroin users don't like methadone or develop a resistance to it, and ... More >>

GO GREENE

WNYC invites you to its housewarming party

The Five Most Miserable Christmas Songs

Polaroid Candids of Your Favorite Indie Luminaries (And A Characteristically Disagreeable Lou Reed)

Coney Island of the Mind: Big Thinkers Consider Coney, Offer Depressing Ideas

Vampire Weekend in the National League Playoffs?

John Berryman, Muse to The Hold Steady: Not News, Barely True

Paramount Styles Salute Vampires and/or A&R Men of Yore

Arts Roundup: Puppet Show Panned, Etc.

Tribeca '08

See these movies

No Context: Speak Up! With Lou Reed, Moby, Antony, and More

SXSW: Lou Reed Was the First One

In This Week's Voice: Pink Naked, Lou Reed in Tie-Dye, Bryan Adams Alive

Noise from the Front

For the week of April 18-24, 2007

This Just In! New(ish) Music We Currently Love

Welsh And French Interlopers Turn Vintage American Pop Into Fast Food

The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary

Open-Road Rock Nostalgia Goes Awkwardly Disco

Red Carpet Treatment

Big Time

Scissor Sisters take a break; Asia Argento breaks your Heart

Music

Joyride To Noirville

Some folks ride the bucking world in drastic style and try not to fall; others domesticate it

Velvet Stems and Balancing

Louie and Dewey help Unca Donald repair Tin Huey's flat

Subtlety Und Drang

Notorious Teutonic pneumatic drillers show their soft side

As Long as I Still Can

Alt Lives!!

Rock's Living End

NY Mirror

Time Rocker