Amy Winehouse is still on the drugs and still rotting away her face by snorting various substances and distilling cocaine in to some sort of cocaine “rock” by mixing it with baking soda, heating it, and letting it cool.

We can see our editor’s email now: “stop encouraging your readers to make their own crack.”

Don’t, because what happens is that people start to hold it against you creatively, like what is happening to Amy Winehouse right now.

The word is that Amy’s new album is well underway and includes “dark” songs about death and suicide. That and it has been pushed back to 2009.

This isn’t boding well for Wino, who has been told by Universal that if she doesn’t get clean, they will not release her album.

From The Sun:

The firm’s European head honcho, LUCIAN GRAINGE, made a similar threat earlier this year to get her into rehab after The Sun exposed footage of her smoking crack.

But label bosses have watched her slip back to her old ways and have reminded her of the conditions of releasing a third record. A source revealed: “Amy has been reminded of her responsibilities. Unless she is clean she will not be allowed to release another album.

“She took notice when Lucian talked to her earlier in the year and agreed to go to rehab. But she didn’t take it seriously enough.

“They would never release her from her deal, they would just not put an album out.”

This is smart because this is literally the last thing anyone can hold over Amy’s head to make her quit; her boyfriend’s in jail and she’s selling well enough to not have to make another album ever if she down-shifts her lifestyle choices.

This is bad because you don’t put druggies in corners without expecting them to fight. We don’t know anything about Uni’s contract with Wino, but if she finds a lawyer who sees this as a breach, Amy can sue for release or her album back before shopping her drugged-up talent out to other labels.

There has to be some independent British label that will support a perpetually cracked-out artist. Maybe Wino can start her own with Pete Doherty when he gets out of the clink.