ContactMusic — Rocker Lou Reed has paid tribute to his former Syracuse University professor in a new published poem The former Velvet Underground frontman studied under literary great Delmore Schwartz in the early 1960s and still clearly has a lot of affection for ... more info

Guardian Music — Forty years ago David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. So here is a 1972 NME interview with Bowie as selected from Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalismThree changes of ... more info

ContactMusic — In our story headlined The Killers Sample Lou Reed Classic On New Album published in WENNs 3rd feed on 5th June 12 we reported that The Killers have sampled a bass line from Lou Reeds Walk on the Wild Side in a new song We have since been informe... more info

ContactMusic — Rock band The Killers have sampled Lou Reeds classic track Walk On The Wild Side for a song on their upcoming album The Las Vegas musicians have used the famous bass line from the 1972 hit in a track to be featured on their long-awaited new record Ba... more info

Metal Injection — If you really want to purchase the guitar tab book, FINE, you can get it here. [via Cattle Decap's Facebook] more info

Starpulse — A newly-discovered genus of spider has been named after rocker Lou Reed. An international group of biologists recently stumbled across the never-before-seen velvet spiders, which live underground,... more info

ContactMusic — A newly-discovered genus of spider has been named after rocker Lou ReedAn international group of biologists recently stumbled across the never-before-seen velvet spiders which live underground and decided to use the former Velvet Underground frontman... more info

Guardian Music — The reissue of Sleep's Dopesmoker shows musicians with the nerve to really stretch a song and take listeners on a journeyThe three-minute pop song is an undeniable design classic: short enough to fit on one side of a 7in, long enough to turn a repeat... more info

Guardian Music — It's 1972, and Greg Freeman's friends don't rate this curious young singer. In fact, he's as bad as Bob DylanMy mates were as dismissive of David Bowie as they were of Bob Dylan. This was 1972, before he was quite as chameleonic as he would soon beco... more info

Guardian Music — (Island)A hit at this year's SXSW, former Feist guitarist Afie Jurvanen's tropical pop arrives as lazily and beautifully as crashing waves. Somewhere between Jack Johnson and early Lou Reed, Jurvenen crafts stripped-down, harmony-brushed songs with g... more info