The Devil Has The Best Tuna — StureFrom: UkraineWith the mainstream US and UK music scene pumping out increasingly generic focus group pap it's time to widen the net and explore previously ignored scenes to satisfy our hunger for the intoxicating thrill of alternative music. ... more info

KEXP Seattle — You would think by this time in the run of this series I would have covered every “seminal” band worth getting your ’80s-college-radio-DJ hackles up about. And yet, here we are in 2017 and this is the first time we’ve discussed The Velvet Und... more info

Stereogum — The Velvet Underground's seminal debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico turned 50 years old in March. To celebrate that anniversary, John Cale enlisted the Kills, Clinic, Wild Beasts, Nadine Shah, and Fat White Family to help him perform the LP in... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — There was a moment in rock history when the future Velvet Underground and the future Grateful Dead, bands that could hardly be more stylistically different, had at least one thing in common: They both called themselves the Warlocks. However small the... more info

The Quietus — Fat White Family, Wild Beasts, Nadine Shah and more will join John Cale as he performs The Velvet Underground & Nico in full. more info

KEXP Seattle — His new album Pure Comedy may be in stores now, but Father John Misty hasn’t stopped sharing new music. FJM (real name: Josh Tillman) covers the Velvet Underground classic “Who Loves the Sun” off their 1970 LP Loaded for the Mondo Boys score to... more info

JamBase — Listen to Father John Misty cover the The Velvet Underground’s “Who Loves The Sun.” more info

Stereogum — Father John Misty covered the Velvet Underground's Loaded track "Who Loves The Sun" for the soundtrack to the film Shangri-La Suite , which was put together by Mondo Boys. The soundtrack also contains a cover from Foxygen's Jonathan Rado of VU's "I ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Diamanda Galas's At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem, Kendrick Lamar's DAMN, Little Dragon's Season High, and Splashh's Waiting A Lifetime are all new albums I can recommend this week. Two live Velvet Underground shows are available today: Boston Tea.... more info

DrownedInSound — After this, music would never be the same again more info