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Too Deep: Fin
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Nate and Jackson: Quick Question :-)
February 26th, 2010
Show Review: Midnight Masses at Union Pool 2/24/10
The soulful indie rockers wrap up their residency at Union Pool
Interview: Mike McColgan of Street Dogs
Mike McColgan of Street Dogs speaks with Verbicide's Fil Madzin
Interview: Lovestranger, MD
“I don’t want sound pretentious about myself by saying this, but I think I kind of stumbled upon what is good about music...”
The Twilight
Rachel Carter's newest edition of "Outing The Hipster" sets its sights on adding a new word to the hipster lexicon
- Interview: Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta - A condensed version of this interview was originally published in Verbicide issue #18 -... More →
- Interview: Sunny Day Real Estate - In late 2007 during some off-time from the Foo Fighters, bassist Nate Mendel started... More →
- Interview: Oliva Munn - You’ve admitted to sucking at video games, but you co-host a video game show. How did... More →
- Interview: Zach Galifianakis - Originally published in Verbicide issue #22 - Anyone who was suckered into seeing the... More →
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Electric President – Safe and Sound
- Zechs Marquise – Sirenum ScopuliThe Mars Volta sibling band Zechs Marquise hits the road once again today, supporting RX Bandits on a lengthy North American tour. The El Paso quartet featuring Mars Volta multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez...
- Pavement – Gold SoundzAt long last it is upon us. One of the most important and influential alternative bands of the 1990s, Pavement, have reunited. To commemorate the occasion, Matador Records presents Quarantine The Past, a 23-track best-of...
- K’naan – Wavin’ Flag (Celebration Remix)2009 brought the release of the highly acclaimed sophomore album from Somali-born K’naan, entitled Troubadour. From that album, which The Source called “an album that displays raw emotion coupled with genre-bending...
- Garotas Suecas – Codinome DinamiteGarotas Suecas come raging from Sao Paolo, Brazil — five boys and a girl playing fuzzed-out, psychedelic garage rock nu-Tropicalia. Influences range from Otis Redding to Os Mutantes. Imagine ? and the Mysterians...
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FLOGGING MOLLY – Live at the Greek Theatre
- SPOON – TransferenceIs Spoon the New Power Generation for the Pitchfork crowd? That’s the question posited by Spoon’s seventh studio album, Transference. Just think about that funky Batman soundtrack if you don’t get the connection....
- TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS – The Brutalist BricksTed Leo and the Pharmacists have arrived on the almighty Matador Records with The Brutalist Bricks, a nonstop work of musical expertise. It’s a beautiful thing to hear veterans of a genre sounding so fresh and...
- Show Review: Midnight Masses at Union Pool 2/24/10It is soundcheck, and Autry Rene Fulbright, lead singer of Midnight Masses, stands at the edge of the small Union Pool stage on the last night of their residency, the venue nearly packed with hipsters, hip-hoppers,...
- JASON COLLETT – Rat A Tat TatJason Collett has one topic he wants to cover on his newest album, Rat A Tat Tat. That topic is love — the good, the bad, and the alt-country. It’s well-worn territory in that genre, yet Collett’s music...
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Too Deep: FinA final word from the Too Deep crew. But will they go out with a whimper or with a bang?
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Interview: Mike McColgan of Street DogsThere’s no doubting that with the times we’re in, everyone is feeling a little more blue collar than they may be used to. But there’s an artist who shines the light on these frustrations and attitudes seldom heard in music: Mike McColgan. Formerly of the Dropkick Murphys, McColgan sings for the Boston-bred punk group Street [...]
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Interview: Lovestranger, MDJames Duke is a soft spoken guy, tall and thin with a broad smile that spreads from ear to ear. He’s the kind of guy who, when asked if he plays the piano, answers with a laugh and says, “That’s a funny question.”
Duke, 21, lives in an apartment on a second-floor loft in Kalamazoo, Michigan, [...]comics
Nate and Jackson: Quick Question :-)Making a magazine is fucking hard work. But, in this installment of Nate and Jackson, Nate and Jackson demonstrate that they are hard workers who use reasonable discourse to enact creative problem solving.
Outing the Hipster, columns, features
The TwilightLately my friends and I have been making up fake words. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I used the word “fauxpen” around a coworker the other day and everyone thought I was a crazy person. But fauxpen is a great word! It describes someone who pretends they’re super open and honest, but [...]
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The Depressed ManA man walks into a grocery store. He forgot his shopping list at home. He picks up a green basket and walks into the produce section. The lighting hurts his eyes. Fruits and vegetables rot, he thinks. He will not buy them. He gazes at potatoes and wonders if other shoppers notice his apathy toward [...]
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Interview: Basia BulatThere are plenty of reasons other than the Winter Olympics to set your sights on the second-largest country in the world right now. Canadian contributions to the indie music scene have always been healthy, but in the last decade they’ve become downright probiotic. Basia Bulat’s holistic presence was first felt two years ago when her [...]
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Too Deep: In the Beginning, It Is Always DarkIn this, the second to last comic, we dissect the comic strip form, rending joke from picture to devour the sweet meta-nectar that lies beneath the meaning.





