Lou Reed

In the mid-1980s Honda had a series of quite dauntingly cool musicians hawking their scooters. They had particularly playful, sexy commercial in which Adam Ant…

This clip is basically the most perfect eulogy for the 90s I can ever imagine. It is not the job of the Gen X-er to…

Photo by Kate Simon. One chilly day in January 1979, Lou Reed and John Cale visited the music station WPIX in New York City, Reed…

For his 1978 Street Hassle album, Lou Reed became the first major artist to produce an album using the “Binaural” sound recording system, a two-channel…

Today would have been the 75th birthday of Lewis Allan Reed and to mark this occasion, I wanted to rerun one of my favorite posts…

Andy Warhol and Mario Montez filming Hedy (via Continuo) On the night of January 27, 1966, the actress Hedy Lamarr was arrested for stealing $86…

Blondie ‘Rapture’ sweater by Mary Adams. I think it’s safe to say that for many people Lou Reed’s 1972 album Transformer was a life changing…

A spendy sweater made by LA-based company Enfants Riches Déprimés And yes, I do realize that this image of Lou Reed is taken from the…

Now who does this rock ‘n’ roll animal resin kit look like to you? Monsters in Motion, the self-described “one-stop monster shop” based in Placentia,…

Peter Pontiac’s illustration from Muziek Expres of Lou Reed. The small caption on the bottom right reads ‘Junkies Ain’t funky!’ Muziek Expres was an edgy…