Lee Rude has been compared to Canadians (Barenaked Ladies, Crash Test Dummies), Brits (John Wesley Harding, Billy Bragg), Americans (Warren Zevon, Freedy Johnston). The band name is bent and borrowed from Lou Reed. What's it all about? It's about tunes.

Over the last five years, the band has played hundreds of shows at bars and coffee shops in Minnesota, New York, Boston, Illinois, and Wisconsin.