In both his life and his music, Lou Reed took risks. Sometimes they paid off, sometimes they laid him low, but they were never, ever boring. That’s why Reed’s discography is as fascinatingly ...

Journal Sentinel books editor Jim Higgins packs a lot into his new book about Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground's nearly 50-album discography. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

Journal Sentinel books editor Jim Higgins packs a lot into his new book about Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground's nearly 50-album discography.

As I worked my way through Lou’s discography, warming myself over their white-hot mix of extreme misanthropy and sneaky humanism, one record was waiting for me at the end of the line.

It didn't take long for Lou Reed to outgrow the Beach Boys cash-ins he was making as a contract artist and songwriter and head toward more fertile land. By 1965 he had met John Cale, and the pair ...

'Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965' presents a long-lost recording of the singer and John Cale performing the earliest known versions of the songs that would change rock with the Velvet Underground.

Whatever Reed’s intentions, MMM was less a dead-end, more a black hole, forcing Lou to appease his label with a more commercial follow-up: the ravishing Coney Island Baby. Its title-track – a paean to ...

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music was more than an hour of feedback and noise with no noticeable structure. A new tribute album called Metal Machine Muzak interprets the spirit behind that work.

Journal Sentinel books editor Jim Higgins packs a lot into his new book about Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground's nearly 50-album discography.