Guardian Music — Praised by Lou Reed and Daft Punk, this invention takes a standard guitar and opens it up to a world of musical possibilitiesWhat is it? An attempt at revolutionising the guitar, from the company that revolutionised 20th-century music with its synthe... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — The sultry voice of El Perro Del Mar is usually enough to make us swoon, but when you add in the fact that she's covering Lou Reed's "Heavenly Arms" in the video above we have gone well beyond melted to a new state of absolute devotion to this songst... more info

Guardian Music — The guitarist's 1963 single, Ace of Spades, was insistent, sinister and hypnotic – and it opened a new world of sonic distortion"Electricity comes from other planets," quipped Lou Reed on the Velvet Underground's Temptation Inside Your Heart. ... more info

Undercover, Australia — At the second of two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shows in New York this week, Mick Jagger joined U2 on stage for a few songs, Lou Reed was up there with Metallica and sisters Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin reunited doing it for themselves. more info

MTV.com News — Fellow headliners Aretha Franklin and Jeff Beck, along with guests like Mick Jagger and Ozzy Ozbourne, celebrate night two of Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary.By Saimon Kos U2's Bono and Black Eyed Peas' Fergie Photo: Stephen Lovekin/ Getty Images... more info

Stereogum — Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back. It reportedly features reinterpretations of the folks mentioned above along with Elbow, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Dav... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Jessica Attie Austin based singer and guitar player Lee Barber has a quite in making in music, performing since 1972. So what took him so long to come up with his debut solo album? Let's just say things happened, various bands, a marriage, a... more info

Guardian Music — For his first LP in seven years, the former Genesis frontman will 'radically reinterpret' songs by Radiohead, Arcade Fire and Bon IverPeter Gabriel is release an orchestral covers album, his first LP in seven years. Scratch My Back is a "song swap", ... more info

Yahoo! Music - Courtesy of NME.com - Motown sound singer to follow in footsteps of Lou Reed at Austin event more info

NME — Motown sound singer to follow in footsteps of Lou Reed at Austin event more info