NME — Nine Inch Nails, Green Day and Lou Reed are also on the list of nominees ahead of April 2015 ceremony more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Velvet Underground founding member Lou Reed, punk-pop band Green Day, industrial dance-rock group Nine Inch Nails and ‘80s Brit-pop group the Smiths are among the 15 pop music acts that appear on the final nominees ballot for Rock and Roll Hall of ... more info

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Stereogum — Young British rockers James Hoare (of Veronica Falls) and Jack Cooper (of Mazes) made a record together under the name Ultimate Painting, and they’re coming to America to promote it this October. “Ten Street,” the single they’re sharing today... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Photos by Greg Cristman Echo & the Bunnymen @ Irving Plaza 8/16/2014 During Echo & the Bunnymen's 90-minute set Friday night at the Orpheum Theatre, singer Ian McCulloch evoked the spirits of Jim Morrison, James Brown, Lou Reed, Nat King... more info

Reuters — PHOENIX (Reuters) - Rock guitarist Dick Wagner, whose prolific session work graced the albums of such acts as Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Kiss and Aerosmith during the 1970s, has died at age 71 in Arizona, his manager said on Thursday. more info

NME — Wagner died in Phoenix, Arizona yesterday (July 30) more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Laurie Anderson at Prospect Park in June (more by Greg Cristman) Some weird stuff happened to Laurie Anderson over the weekend while she was undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The art pop great/wife of the late Lou Reed found herself trapped... more info

KEXP Seattle — The local four-piece that calls “Earth” its hometown, The Comettes have honed the sound born in the 1980′s - that distorted, etherial, big-voiced rock - and made it their own here and now in 2014. Think: David Byrne, Lou Reed or even Pearl Jam ... more info

NME — Fortune to be divided among Reed's wife, mother and sister more info