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Interview: Skinheads Still Scare People
words by Seth Gotro | photo courtesy of Koi Records

Interview: Skinheads Still Scare People

Skinhead music is back in full force as Mike De Lorenzo and Vinnie Value, former members of Warzone and Kill Your Idols, lace up the [...]

Interview: Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains
words by Billy Werner | photo by Alex Countey

Interview: Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Some of the best bass players I’ve seen have been quiet men in the background, crafting a spinal column [...]

Interview: Marty Crandall of The Shins
words by Amy Butler | photo by Brian Tamborello

Interview: Marty Crandall of The Shins

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Marty Crandall knows that it’s a “really big time” for The Shins right now, the Portland-by-way-of-Albuquerque quartet for which [...]

Interview: Kool Keith
words by Louis Ferrara

Interview: Kool Keith

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 From our seats in the otherwise empty bleachers, a jagged red mountain framed the horizon of our scene, and [...]

Interview: Tim Barry
words by Christopher Connal | photo by Travis Conner

Interview: Tim Barry

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 If you’re from Virginia, you might conjure up images of railways and the River James upon hearing the title [...]

Interview: Mimi Parker of Low
words by Kevin Munley | photo by Tim Soter

Interview: Mimi Parker of Low

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 The music of Duluth, Minnesota’s Low can sound pure and peaceful like a choir filled to the clouds with [...]

Something Sketchy
words by Tobi Elkin | artwork by Molly Crabapple | photo by Hillary Moore | assistant photo by Laura Greb | styling and wardrobe by Amber Ray

Something Sketchy

Surrounded by enormous klieg lights, the pint-sized artist and illustrator holds court discussing the release of her first book, Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book, a romp through the whimsical world of cabaret life drawing courtesy of her bimonthly Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School sketching salon.

THE DESCENT
reviewed by Asher Ellis

THE DESCENT

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Lions Gate Films 99 min., dir. by Neil Marshall, with Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, and Alex Reid If [...]

IDIOCRACY
reviewed by Asher Ellis

IDIOCRACY

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 20th Century Fox Studios 84 min., dir. by Mike Judge, with Luke Wilson, Dax Shepard, and Maya Rudolph More [...]

REVOLUTION ON CANVAS VOLUME 1: POETRY FROM THE INDIE MUSIC SCENE ed. by Rich Balling
reviewed by Erin Gambrill

REVOLUTION ON CANVAS VOLUME 1: POETRY FROM THE INDIE MUSIC SCENE ed. by Rich Balling

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Warner/Ad Astra Books, 224 pages, trade paperback, $12.95 True story: I was shopping the other day when I heard [...]

Strangers on a Plane
words by Kevin Munley | photo by Esther Seijmonsbergen

Strangers on a Plane

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Amin was frequently at Heathrow, traveling back and forth between his home in England and his parents in Dubai. [...]

Interview: Tom Gabel of Against Me!
words by Mark Huddle | photo by Drew Goren

Interview: Tom Gabel of Against Me!

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 So, music geeks, how many conversations have you started with the statement, “I was into those guys back when [...]

Interview: Kevin Munroe, director of TMNT
words by Karl Sukhia | image courtesy of Warner Bros.

Interview: Kevin Munroe, director of TMNT

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 I recently had the opportunity to speak over the phone with Kevin Munroe, director for the new CGI Teenage [...]