Return of 'Mad Men' is Can’t Miss TV

Much has been made of the fact that “Mad Men” is the best show that no one has heard of, which of course has created the opposite effect: Now everybody has heard of it because it’s so underappreciated. Soon the tide will shift yet again, and it will become a huge hit and then a backlash will occur and no one will want to watch it because everybody is watching it. Before you get sucked down by this undertow of inanity, check out the premiere of the second season of “Mad Men,” which follows the adventures of advertising types on Madison Avenue in the 1960s, complete with clouds of cigarette smoke and three-martini lunches. “Mad Men” just snagged 16 Emmy nominations, including one for best series. I think the secret is out now. (AMC, Sunday, 10 p.m.)

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Hijuelos Plans New `Mambo Kings' Novel

Oscar Hijuelos is writing a companion novel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" and also plans a memoir that will include his encounters with musicians such as Ruben Blades and Lou Reed.

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Punk Venue CBGB's Closing After 33 Years

Legs McNeil remembers the night back in 1975 when he walked into the dingy storefront club perched in the even dingier Bowery neighborhood. The band onstage, four guys in leather jackets and torn jeans, was the Ramones. McNeil sat at a nearby table, watching their set with Lou Reed.

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Bruce Springsteen, who turns 60 this September, released a new album and performed at the SuperBowl. Whatever happened to Live Fast, Die Young? Someone ask Sid Vicious. Even Johnny Rotten turned 53 on January 31.

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Let's have a singalong. After me: "Abilene ... Abilene." Or how about, "I was living like a Hollywood, but I was dying, dying on the vine."

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This debut pretty much has it all. Simple melodies and percussion, ample guitar work and vocals that are friendly enough that one might be able to hear them emanating from your friends' kitchen.

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Lou Reed is, of course, an all-time great rock and roll songwriter and vital inspiration to generations of artists. David Bowie, The Feelies, Yo La Tengo-these are just a few of the enormously huge number deeply indebted to his work and aesthetic.

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The history of electric guitar is full of antiheroes, starting with Pat Hare and Link Wray, but that archetype really came to the fore when punk rock plunged its greasy fingers into rock and roll's supper.

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Lou Reed has already performed the British leg of his tour at Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Nottingham and the Albert Hall.. now he is off onto the continient.

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NEW YORK, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) announced that Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Lou Reed will host his own weekly show exclusively on SIRIUS.

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Lou Reed almost single-handedly made rock and roll safe for junkies, transvestites, and sadomasochists as leader of the Velvet Undergound in the 1960s, and he once released a double LP - 1975's Metal Machine Music - that consisted of four sides of screaming guitar feedback.

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Over the past 25 years, Reed's profile has both soared and dived. Now internationally recognized as a modern master who has continued to produce ambitious work, he is often still pictured as a forbidding figure chronicling society's fringes.

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Legendary musician Lou Reed has gotten hitched. The Velvet Underground singer-guitarist, 66, and his longtime love, performance artist Laurie Anderson, 60, wed in a "small, non-denominational ceremony in Boulder, Colorado,

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Just to jump on a bandwagon, I felt the need to write a "list." You know the kind—you see 'em on half of the damn magazine covers nowadays, and, Jesus, if it weren't for "lists" VH1 might've gone off the air years ago.

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The keynote address at this year's South by Southwest music conference was a conversation between two friends about American culture and where music fits into it.

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LOU REED is urging all music fans to demand better quality sound from downloads because he fears modern technology is "taking us backwards".

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Surly LOU REED admonished a fan when his cell phone rang during the rocker's keynote speech at the South By Southwest Festival in Texas on Thursday (13Mar08).

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as presenters at next month's (Mar08) Rock + Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

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MOBY and LOU REED plan to stir up controversy with an anti-war concert in New York next month (Mar08). The pair will headline the 18 March (08) fundraising gig, aimed at urging U.S. government officials to bring troops back from Iraq.

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I know Lou Reed didn't have Cheney or Bush in mind in 1982 when he released The Blue Mask and the song that could be a theme for the Bush Regime: "Waves of Fear." What's your favorite post-Velvets song written by Lou?

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MICHAEL STIPE, JOHN MAYER, PERRY FARRELL and MICK FLEETWOOD are among the rockers whose photographs feature in a new exhibition co-curated by LOU REED.

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The Killers have recruited Lou Reed to sing on a track set to appear on the Las Vegas band's forthcoming B-sides and rarities album.

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Rock band THE KILLERS have recorded a song with music icon LOU REED. The Las Vegas rockers worked on the track Tranquillize with the former Velvet Underground star - and is expected to be released on the band's forthcoming untitled rarities album.

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Painting the Town Pink: A Composition for The Chelsea Hotel

The Chelsea Hotel: Starry, Starry Nights

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Lou Reed have revealed that there could be even more 'Berlin' material to come. His 1973 album was reissued earlier this year in a one-off run in digipack form. Reed is currently touring, with a show that involves him playing the album in its entirety.

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The legendarily cantankerous Lou Reed's definition of abject misery is being interviewed by an English journalist. But get him on the right subject and he can be surprisingly pleasant. Mick Brown disarmed him with a right-left combination of Buddhism and Doc Pomus.

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BONO and DAVID BOWIE were among friends, students and fans who left rocker LOU REED visibly touched as he was honoured by New York's Syracuse University.

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Veteran rocker LOU REED will be the first act to play the new HighLine Ballroom venue in New York City. The WALK ON THE WILD SIDE star will take the stage at the new 700-capacity club in the city's Meatpacking district on 30 April (07).

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