Hailing from San Diego, hardcore act Lewd Acts is at it again with their new full-length Black Eye Blues. At first listen, it may sound [...]

No Idea Records and Distro have released the second installment of their Pretend Record series. The absolutely free downloadable comp features some sneak peaks on [...]

When I first listened to Gay Beast, I was hungover. My half-dead brain screamed at me to turn that racket off; it sounded like nothing [...]

I kind of like the music, but I definitely don’t like lead man Todd Portnowitz’s vocals and his overblown lyrics. Just because you name drop [...]

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Banner Pilot is a young punk rock quartet from Minneapolis that formed in 2005 and used to jokingly describe their band as, “if Jawbreaker, The [...]

Dave Grohl has Probot. Isaac Brock has Ugly Casanova. Damon Albarn has Gorillaz and Maynard James Keenan has A Perfect Circle, but don’t for a [...]

I haven’t heard much in the way of rock opera lately, so when I first listened to this album I had a hard time initially [...]

In 1978 the Descendents formed under their common credo of fishing, girls, and velocity. Existing briefly as a power trio, the LA-based group released the [...]

Somewhere deep behind “The Orange Curtain” (a term we use here in southern California to describe Orange County) live the members of electro-punk band Intro5pect. [...]

Criterion/Rialto Pictures 140 min., dir. by Jean-Pierre Melville, with Alain Delon, Gian-Maria Volonte, and Yves Montand This is my first article for Verbicide and I [...]

Pastel is the precursor to upcoming long-player, Girls Come Too, from Toronto five-piece, Still Life Still. With luscious undertones of fuzz, disjointed riffing, and reverb-doused [...]

After releasing two full-length albums in three years, New York City’s favorite post-pop hellraisers, Hunters, Run!, have decided to embark on an ambitious project: releasing [...]