The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette included Dirty Blvd in a holiday gift roundup.
Los Angeles Review of Books' lengthy essay "Lou Reed and the End of Times" focused on two Lou Reed bios, including Dirty Blvd.
Popular music blog Largehearted Boy featured an annotated Lou Reed Spotify playlist by Dirty Blvd author Aidan Levy.
Houston Press reviewed Dirty Blvd, saying "Levy's book certainly captures the life and music of the 'Sultan of Sulk.'"
In their Book of the Day feature, The Guardian reviewed two Lou Reed biographies, including Aidan Levy's Dirty Blvd.
VICE excerpted a chapter from Dirty Blvd on its music blog, Noisey.
Library Journal reviewed Dirty Blvd, saying "this study is about as close to a must-read book on Reed as one can get."
Booklist calls Dirty Blvd a "skillfully written and respectful biography."
Dirty Blvd was featured in an article about Lou Reed on DailyMail.com.
Kirkus reviewed Dirty Blvd, saying "The details of Reed's ascendance, fall, and comeback as a solo artist are so vital and culturally significant they read like a Hollywood script, and Levy ably captures it."