JamBase — Watch Yonder Mountain String Band bring last year's Strings & Sol to a close with help from a handful of the event's performers. more info

Consequence of Sound — Plus: Prince, Lou Reed, Spoon, Danny Brown, and even the Space Jam soundtrack. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — These events are in celebration of The New York Public Library acquiring Lou Reed's archives. Continue reading… more info

Uncut — She was joined by Hal Willner, Julian Schnabel and more Lou Reed She was joined by Hal Willner, Julian Schnabel and more The post Watch Laurie Anderson and friends perform Lou Reed’s The Raven appeared first on Uncut. more info

Stereogum — I was talking to Lou Reed the other day and he said that the first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years. The sales have picked up in the past few years, but I mean, that record was such an important record for so many ... more info

Stereogum — Never forget: Metallica recorded a whole album with Lou Reed. Even if you don't like the way that album turned out -- and almost nobody liked the way that album turned out -- you can't doubt Metallica's sincerity when they pay tribute to rock's pione... more info

New York Times — The “retirement plan” was to be an “art ranch” called L&L, for Lou and Laurie, where Reed could play nightly. Now, she is preserving his archive. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The New York Times interviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates about writing comics. The New York Public Library will make Lou Reed's archives available to the public. eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Ball Four by Jim... more info

JamBase — In honor of what would've been Lou Reed's 75th birthday, watch the icon perform at a 1997 Bridge School benefit and a Bridge School tribute to him held hours after his death. more info

New York Times — The Lou Reed archive consists of a huge collection of paperwork, photographs and recordings — more than 600 hours of demo tapes and concerts. more info