Obscure Sound — “Gun Life” is the debut single from Emperors of Rome, the duo of Dom Bouffard (vocals & guitar) and Alli MacInnes (vocals, guitar & drums). They met on tour with former bands, later eloping in Berlin. Dom found work as a guitarist with Rufus Wain... more info

JamBase — Celebrate Lou Reed on the anniversary of his death with a Spotify Playlist featuring The Velvet Underground and solo jams. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — 'Jim Reid Top Picks' include songs by The Kills, The Beatles, The Kinks, Lou Reed, Vashti Bunyan, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cult, Orange Juice, Nirvana, Neil Young, Go-Kart Mozart, The Snivelling Shits, and more. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Rocker David Nance already has three albums under his belt as well as a few unlicensed whole-album covers of records like Lou Reed’s Berlin and the Rolling Stones’ Goat Head Soup. The latter got him a cease and desist letter directly from the Sto... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — If you know the name Nico at all, it's from a brief moment in time in the 1960s when she collaborated with Lou Reed on the iconic "The Velvet Underground & Nico" album and was anointed by the media as the epitome of hipster cool. But Nico's creative ... more info

Obscure Sound — “Folding laundry time is dreaming time, I’m going for the gold,” are the lyrics that open the engrossing “Laundry Day”, a new track from Nashville act Sundaes. The vocal presence is quite reminiscent of Lou Reed, with the emerging flicker o... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Literary Hub recommended funny novels by women (including one of my favorite books, Alina Bronsky's The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine). My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters With Lou Reed, a collection of interviews with the legend, will... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Lou Reed tried to sell us on a Harlem heroin score being cool, even if he was feeling “more dead than alive.” Tina Harvey went to the same dealer, but she was just jonesing. Gone is the jangly swagger of the Velvets uptown jaunt – she a... more info

Consequence of Sound — She also shares what it's like being watched by Lou Reed and how she sees solo performance like a standup comic. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Michael Ondaatje discussed his new novel Warlight with Publishers Weekly. Rolling Stone reviewed the new collection of Lou Reed's poetry, Do Angels Need Haircuts?. May's best eBook deals. Stream a new Innocence Mission song. A docuseries based on Mic... more info