LargeHeartedBoy — The Guardian interviewed author Kiese Laymon. St. Vincent covered Lou Reed's "Perfect Day." 21 "best books of 2018" lists were added to Largehearted Boy's master aggregation yesterday (bringing the total to 345), including several lists from The Time... more info

JamBase — Celebrate Dr. John's birthday by watching a collection of live collaborations featuring the likes of The Band, Jerry Garcia, Eric Clapton, Lou Reed and more. more info

Consequence of Sound — The opening number of a stripped-back performance of MassEducation in Brooklyn. more info

Stereogum — Last month, St. Vincent released MassEducation , a stripped-down reworking of her 2017 album MASSEDUCTION . She recorded the reimagining with Doveman's Thomas Bartlett on the piano, and a few weeks back they went on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — St. Vincent and Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) played one of their stripped-down, piano-and-vocal shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music, and opened with a cover of a Lou Reed classic... Continue reading… more info

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