Some are subtle. Others…not so much. The following article first appeared on Substance.com: Music and drugs: They’re so enmeshed that you might well call them co-dependent. Drugs have been used both as subject matter—whether it’s Neil Young lamenting “The Needle and the Damage Done“ or Pete Tosh imploring the powers-that-be to “Legalize It“—and as tools to unlock hitherto unexplored sonic landscapes. Without LSD’s mind-twisting influence we probably wouldn’t have the freaked-out beauty of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” and it’s doubtful whether the jittery aggression of The Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK“ would have been quite so frantic without copious amounts of amphetamine. And as for MDMA’s relationship with dance music, or the cloud of ganja smoke that hangs over the history of reggae, it’s fair […] Read More