The Velvet Underground

Can You Love the Music You Love After a Breakup?

So, my girlfriend and I just broke up. Coincidentally, or maybe because April is just a shitty month, the inverse happened to Camille Standen, who wrote a piece for Noisey about how her shattered relationship ruined all the songs she used to love. I can relate, but I wouldn't say my favorite songs ... More >>

Who Decides What Rock is "Classic Rock?"

Not everyone has the luxury of having an auxiliary jack in their car stereo. With the amount of leaks, holes, and weird noises coming from my engine, I'm lucky my beat up truck still runs period. I can't be asking for a decent stereo. So my commuting music consists entirely of FM radio, which is sti ... More >>

X-TG (Members of Throbbing Gristle) Revive Nico's Lost Classic, Desertshore

By Alex Jarson Okay, we know you just love the Velvet Underground--you're sporting the latest fall calendar Urban Outfitters top, your mom took you to get the Warhol Banana tattooed on your bicep, and you think they're the greatest, most provocative band to have ever graced this earth. You even pla ... More >>

Five Great Lost Albums

By Mark Keresman Brian Eno was quoted as saying, "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." Rock history is filled with bands and albums that were somewhat unappreciated in their time yet occupy an enviable (by some people, at any rate) ... More >>

The 10 Coolest, Scariest, Freakiest Songs About Heroin

See also: 10 Songs About Cocaine See also: 15 Songs to Light Up to on 4/20 Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. It's in many ways the enduring holy trinity of pop music. Like it or not -- we're not advocating anything -- drugs are responsible for lots of great songwriting. So every Friday in August, we' ... More >>

Squeeze's Chris Difford on England, John Cale, and the Paul McCartney-Produced Record That Never Came to Be

Coachella is a weird beast: In addition to hotly tipped acts like Avicci and Justice, big name standard bearers like Radiohead and The Black Keys, and holy-hell-they're-reuniting bands like Refused and At the Drive In, there's always a few bands that have just kept soldiering on, whose break-ups and ... More >>

Tumblr of the Week: The Kitten Covers

​It's tough to hate kittens. It's even tougher to hate kittens that rock out to David Bowie. Just admit it: they're irresistable.Denying the cuteness of the cats isn't an option when those little critters are standing in on some major artists' album covers. This week we're bringing you The Ki ... More >>

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman: 10 Songs About the Mail

​By now it's news to no one that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. As detailed by Nick Greene earlier this month at Village Voice's Running Scared, this means print media is in for a punch (you know, while it's down and everything), your bills are going to show up later than they ... More >>

The Black Angels @ The Rhythm Room

The Black Angels to Play The Rhythm Room This Wednesday

​ Get your illicit substances and Syd Barrett bootlegs in order: Austin psych band The Black Angels are bringing their droney rock 'n' roll sound to the Rhythm Room this Wednesday, May 18. The band's latest album, 2010's Phosphene Dream, comes courtesy of Blue Horizon Records, legendary for its mi ... More >>

Country Funk (1970)

​ Welcome to Obscuro, a feature where Up on the Sun dives deep into the world of vinyl oddities: private press jobs, major label cast-offs, and general thrift shop clutter that's thus far escaped anyone's attention. These LPs have been hiding out, collecting dust, until we come along, investigate, ... More >>

Mark Your Calendars: Festival Announcements Galore

Feather headdresses were the hot accessory of 2010 music festivals.​While music festival season is pretty much wrapped up for the year up, there's still plenty to get excited about since next year's festivals are being planned.Announcements have been rolling out one after another this past week. B ... More >>

Gospel Claws @ Sail Inn

Five Old Songs That Still Sound Brand New

Tom Verlaine. The archetypal ultra cool indie rock frontman?​The goal of Jay Bennett's ambitious Nothing Not New project is to avoid slipping into a state of "aesthetic atrophy." That's why Jay is listening only to brand-new music for one year. I, for one, believe some people have t ... More >>

Pleasure Factory

Warhol-inspired bash encourages coloring outside the lines

Tengo Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo

Son Volt

Michael Jackson Samples In Hip-Hop, Spin Misnames Velvet Underground Song, Reznor Disses Cornell Again

So Much Silence: A few hip-hop tracks that sampled Michael Jackson Spin: Watch: Beck Covers Velvet Underground's "Waiting For My Man" [sic] Seriously, Spin, you don't know the name of that song? Idolator: The Mets Are Asking Everyone To Clear Their Throats Again Pitchfork: Reznor Reveals Rejec ... More >>

Perez Hilton Allegedly Beat Down By Manager, Crystal Castles Beat Down Security, Jack White and Jimmy Page Diss 'Guitar Hero"

Electric Mustache: Woods coming to Phoenix Idolator: Crystal Castles: Still Brawlin' NME: Jack White and Jimmy Page diss 'Guitar Hero' video game Pitchfork: Radiohead/Wilco/Marr/Finn Supergroup Benefit Album Details Revealed Rolling Stone: Perez Hilton Reportedly Assaulted By Will.i.am's Manager So ... More >>

Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid

NYC
(Domino)

Voodoo Gurus

Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls alum heads awesome rock hyphenate

Enon

Various Artists

Juno: Music From the Motion Picture
(Rhino)

Boxing Match

Record companies get greedy with repackaging excess

Cello Pop

15 years against the current

Beach House

Beach House
(Carpark Records)

Mojo Rising Again

Rhino reissues the Doors´ catalogue

Primal Scream
Kasabian

Riot City Blues
(Columbia)
Empire
(RCA)

The Black Angels

Passover
(Light in the Attic)

Wolf Parade

Apologies to the Queen Mary
(Sub Pop)

American Analog Set

Set Free
(Arts & Crafts)

The Rules

Musical taste reveals more than you think

The Raveonettes

Pretty in Black
(Columbia)

The Mars Volta

Frances the Mute
(Universal)

Singapore Sling

Life Is Killing My Rock 'N' Roll
(Stinky)

Interpol

Less gloom, more sonic boom for New York's Interpol

A Girl Called Eddy

A Girl Called Eddy (Anti)

Califone,and Rebecca Gates

"Rootsy folk blues" blows through the Valley

Elf Power

Creatures (spinArt)

The Strokes

Is This It (RCA)

The Tyde

Once (Orange Sky/Dionysus)

Sonny Outlook

Sonny Vincent, still on the road less traveled

Yo La Tengo

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
(Matador)

The Kingsbury Manx

The Kingsbury Manx (Overcoat Recordings)

Critics' Choice

A year-end recap of the albums that made it worthwhile to own a stereo in 1997

Dandy Lions

Novelty single aside, Portland's Dandy Warhols should have more than 15 minutes of fame awaiting them

Drop-Dead Beautiful

OLD CALE IS FRESH CALE EX-VALVET UNDERGROUNDER HAS HIS VERY OWN ANTHOLOGY

FATAL REFRACTION

LOU REED SCARES THE POP OUT OF DEATH