411 Mania — From Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" and Cypress Hill's "I Wanna Get High" to Velvet Underground's "Heroin" and more, 411's Jeremy Thomas counts down the top 5 songs about drugs! more info

Consequence of Sound — Amanda Ghassaei does it again. more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The bones of the Velvet Underground’s carcass have been picked over many, many times since Lou Reed left the group in the summer of 1970, from greatest (non) hits comps to outtakes collections to live albums. Most recently, the band’s epochal deb... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — His ClancynessFrom: Bologna, Italy or Ottawa, CanadaHis Clancyness is the stage name of Jonathan Clancy, a musical polygot from Ottawa who made a home for himself in Bologna and ended up having his music released by Brighton's Fat Cat Records. Those ... more info

Chicago Tribune — The Flatlanders – the West Texas trinity of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock  -- were about 50 years behind the times and 15 years ahead of it, Ely once surmised. The band left behind a batch of songs recorded in 1972 and then disapp... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Lola ColtFrom: London, United KingdomLondon psychonauts Lola Colt (first featured on the Devil's blog in 2011, Video Killed The Radio Star 25th September 2011) sound like PJ Harvey breaking bread with The Velvet Underground at Woodstock. If you're... more info

The Bay Bridged — Last month, LA-based Foxygen (made up of Jonathan Rado and Sam France) released a video that doubles as a time machine back to San Francisco circa 1973. The duo spends the track, simply and appropriately titled (you guessed it) “San Francisco,” f... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Ten years after they first emerged from Warhol’s Factory, the Velvet Underground loomed larger than ever before in the CBGB-centered NYC punk scene of the mid-1970s. With Patti Smith leading the charge — she covered the Velvets frequently  — J... more info

NME - Radar — “For me, it’s simple,” says Charlie Boyer, setting his pint down thoughtfully on the table of a gloomy Camden drinking hole. “I just wanna make primitive, sexy, glamorous rock’n’roll music.” This is the manifesto he dished out to The Vo... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Yeah, the party line on the Velvet Underground is that the band was almost completely ignored during the 1960s, their flowers of darkness vibes passed over in favor of flower power. But as it turns out, plenty of people were listening — including t... more info