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So many books and stories abound about Lou Reed that you’d be forgiven for believing that nothing else could be said about ...

This is what happens to music, art, and even politics after it’s forgotten by society. It loses its shock value, including ...

Strawberries' is Robert Forster's ninth album and features an all-Swedish band including members of Peter Bjorn and John and ...

J. Hoberman's 'Everything Is Now,' a survey of the 1960's avant-garde arts scene in NYC is a glorious blast from the past.

The pressure to follow up on a hot debut can undo an artist—but it brought out the best in Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar, Lou ...

Lou and Rachel, RIP. Reed’s first comeback of the 80s saw him drink and drug-free, with a new wife, a new band (featuring Richard Hell And The Voidoids’ mercurial guitarist, Robert Quine) and a new ...

The album’s out digitally on September 27 and physically on October 4 via Light in the Attic. Released in partnership with Laurie Anderson and the Lou Reed Archive, Why Don’t You Smile Now is ...

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.

(SOUNDBITE OF LOU REED SONG, "METAL MACHINE MUSIC, PT. 1") INSKEEP: Ow. This is called "Metal Machine Music," a bed of pulsating screeches and noise that went on for an hour. That was the album.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Lou Reed’s 1982 solo album, a strangely ...