Lou Reed was indisputably one of the most provocative musicians the rock world has known, releasing songs about heroin abuse and sadomasochism on his very first album (“The Velvet Underground and Nico ...

“Most of you won’t like this, I won’t blame you at all,” Lou Reed cautions in the original liner notes to his 1975 double album, “Metal Machine Music,” perhaps the most notorious rock release of all ...

Don't ever say The A.V. Club Newswire doesn't give you enough opportunities to hate/fellate Lou Reed: According to punknews.org, today sees the release of a live version of Reed's aural-torture-porn ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting September 4th, 2007 - Buy Zeitkratzer And Lou Reed Metal Machine Music DVD ...

When you put on Lou Reed’s 1975 album Metal Machine Music, there’s one moment that is undeniably sweeter, more memorable, more perfect than any other. It’s when you turn it off. You’ll never regret ...

Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” a fabled cacaphony of guitar feedback and tape manipulations released 35 years ago, has been transcribed for strings, winds, guitar, accordion, piano and percussion.

LOS ANGELES • The music world is in mourning over Lou Reed, the indescribably influential singer, composer and bandleader who died Oct. 27. He was one of the first to marry rock insouciance with ...

Like thoroughbred horses, industrial music has only a handful of forebears, so when the Big Three — Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and Front Line Assembly — seemed to be calling it quits or, at the very ...