Guardian Music — Although scorned by the French music establishment, Erik Satie’s innovations can still be heard in minimalism, muzak and even Aphex Twin. Nick Shave on the maverick composer at 150On 9 September 1963, 70 years after it was written, Erik SatieÃ... more info

Core News — “Henry Rollins returns to 6 Music sitting in for Jarvis Cocker across the month of June. No stranger to the world of radio, Rollins brings you two hours of tracks from his extensive record collection including The Velvet Underground, The Damned, Br... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — WallFrom: New York City, United StatesMilk from New York post punk foursome Wall pitches it's unconventional tent somewhere between the Velvet Underground and Monkey's Gone To Heaven era Pixies. Lyrically obtuse, singer Sam York recites "the ... more info

NME — Vinyl reissues of Alex Turner and Velvet Underground albums will be made available too more info

Rolling Stone — Patti Smith performed a unique and mysterious tribute to late singer Nico two years ago with ambient backing music from her daughter, Jesse Paris Smith, and a trio called Soundwalk Collective. It featured sounds from Nico's own harmonium and sounds t... more info

Guardian Music — St David’s Hall, CardiffThe relentlessly innovative Velvet Underground star launched Cardiff’s Festival of Voice with the help of a choir, chamber orchestra and Charlotte ChurchFor Wales to launch its Festival of Voice – later to... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Intelligence ServiceFrom: Vancouver, CanadaSchool Me from crazed Vancouver rockers The Intelligence Service sounds like the B52s after a Frank Zappa blood transfusion. It's Rock Lobster reimagined as a Velvet Underground classic. My mind is o... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — His cover of I'm Set Free is awesome. It's one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs. A song so good it's a funeral contender, and this cover does it justice. -- Marissa Nadler Continue reading… more info

Rolling Stone — Sixteen of Lou Reed's solo recordings will comprise a new box set due out this fall. The RCA & Arista Album Collection spans the late Velvet Underground frontman's albums between 1972 and 1986. Reed spent the months prior to his death in 2013 remaste... more info

Guardian Music — The musician and songwriter on Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts, the Atlanta band Slang, Louis CK’s boldness, and his love of rapturous music writingBorn in Chicago in 1986, the musician and songwriter Ezra Furman played in the four-piece indi... more info