Brooklyn Vegan — a masked Joseph Arthur w/ RNDM (more by Sachyn Mital) Joseph Arthur will pay tribute to one of his friends and influences, Lou Reed, who passed away last year, with a tribute album, Lou, due out on May 13 via... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Critic's Notebook: Lady Gaga and the rest of the music-marketing crowd are the losers at South by Southwest, while the indie showcases, the coolly uncool and the Lou Reed saluters are the winners.AUSTIN, Texas — Here's to bad vibes, colored vomit a... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — On Friday night while the youth were out chasing the next revolution and the lemmings were packing the Hype Hotel at South by Southwest, the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin. Texas, hosted a crowd comfortably removed from the chaos who were medit... more info

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Stereogum — Last night Carnegie Hall hosted the 24th annual benefit concert for Tibet House US, a non-profit organization geared toward preserving Tibetan culture. Patti Smith (covering Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day”), members of the National with Sufjan Stevens... more info

ContactMusic — Reunited British new wave group Spandau Ballet have added their name to a planned Lou Reed tribute as part of the South-by-Southwest festival in... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Lou Reed I mean GDP in "The Next Day" video NY/NJ alternative rapper GDP is set to follow his 2013 EP on Run For Cover, Holla, (and a recent collaboration with Antwon) with a new full length,... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The day after Christmas, December of 1972: Lou Reed and band (The Tots) in Hempstead, NY, recording live for radio at Untrasonic Recording Studio. Recorded just a month after the  release of Transformer, the set finds Reed pulling from the new recor... more info

Consequence of Sound — Features George Harrison, Neil Young, Lou Reed, and more. more info

Consequence of Sound — The Big Apple was much, much different 25 years ago. more info