Starpulse — Veteran rocker Lou Reed is plotting his stage comeback after undergoing a liver transplant, declaring: "I am bigger and stronger... than ever." The former Velvet Underground singer scrapped a stri... more info

Starpulse — Veteran rocker Lou Reed is recovering after undergoing a life-saving liver transplant. The former Velvet Underground singer had the operation in April, his musician wife Laurie Anderson revealed i... more info

The Independent — A legal fight between the rock band The Velvet Underground and the Andy Warhol Foundation is over.      more info

411 Mania — The case will not go to trial... more info

Starpulse — The members of the Velvet Underground have settled a long-running lawsuit with officials at the Andy Warhol Foundation over the visual rights to one of the artist's most iconic images. The bandmat... more info

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