LargeHeartedBoy — Roz Chast discussed her new book Going Into Town with Fresh Air. Rolling Stone shared an excerpt from Anthony DeCurtis's book Lou Reed: A Life. The 2017 Giller Prize shortlist has been announced. Stream a new Rural Alberta Advantage song.... more info

Detroit Free Press — The Detroit star covers a 1989 Lou Reed song -- with an updated jab at Donald Trump -- as his new album title and release date get locked down             more info

Dlisted — And he broke it for cooties and kitties! Nikki Reed gave birth to the daughter she had with Ian Somerhalder on July 25. When Bodhi Soleil Moon Frye Lou Reed Somerhalder was born, her parents were all “Once you shove a baby out, scrolling through... more info

Stereogum — New York's Bottom Line was something of a home away from home for the late Lou Reed. So it's appropriate that Reed's first posthumous release is Lou Reed And Kris Kristofferson: In Their Own Words With Vin Scelsa. Out 9/15, the set includes a live re... more info

New York Times — Mr. Collings’s company made guitars for Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Joni Mitchell, Eddie Van Halen, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Bill Frisell and Emmylou Harris. more info

Stereogum — Jack Cooper of Mazes and Ultimate Painting is releasing a solo album called Sandgrown this summer. Lead single "North Of Anywhere" was a lovely low-key guitar-pop ballad in the vein of Lou Reed, and today's new "Gynn Square" follows suit. Do yourself... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Clearing up another pre-Year Zero year as we continue through four decades of pop, one which features a lot of big important albums and international starmaking turns. Ziggy retired, Led Zeppelin got their private plane, CBGBs opens, we lost Gram Par... more info

Chicago Tribune — In his 1976 Creem magazine review of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" a review with the headline "The Greatest Album Ever Made," the late rock critic Lester Bangs justifies his enthusiasm by noting at some length how the album made his hermit crab, S... more info

Stereogum — Kurt Vile and Steve Gunn are two of the guests on the most recent installment of The Best Show, and as Pitchfork points out, both musicians took some time to perform. Vile covered Lou Reed's "Sword Of Domocles" and Gunn broke into John Mayer's "Your ... more info

Stereogum — Willie J Healey is a 22-year-old from Oxford whose hearty, lackadaisical rock songs drink from Foxygen's cocktail of retro influences -- Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen -- while also resembling modern weirdos like Mac DeMarco and Ariel Pink. Like DeMarco... more info