Yawn…just a sleepy day around the ol’ Verbicide office (and by “Verbicide office” I mean the kitchen of the restaurant where I work and neglect [...]

A couple tracks into Efterklang’s newest album, Magic Chairs, I was ready to write them off as a pseudo-Arcade Fire rip-off band. It’s easy criticism. [...]

Somewhere within the vast landscape of the New Jersey music scene in 2009, a couple of musicians began to envision a fresh project that could [...]

Of course I’ve been up all night! Not because of caffeine, it was insomnia. I couldn’t stop thinking about coffee. I need a nap. Coffee [...]

Brattleboro, Vermont’s Happy Birthday are really easy to love — they make indie rock as unpretentious as it comes, heavy on the hooks and light [...]

The Portland Mercury reports that Pacific Northwest rockers Bangs (Kill Rock Stars) and The Need (Chainsaw Records, KRS) will be reuniting to perform a benefit concert for [...]

Hailing from the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Mall’d to Death came to life in 2009.  Their fiery brand of melodic punk throws conventional pop songwriting [...]

Pitchfork reports that Billboard reports that the Nielsen Soundscan reports that this year’s Record Store Day was the biggest single day for vinyl sales in [...]

Nearly 20 years after Public Enemy released the track “By the Time I Get to Arizona,” Chuck D is once again calling out the state [...]

Long live…disco? Whoever said that funk is dead obviously hadn’t heard Sugar & Gold. They’ll make you want to think twice about giving your silk [...]

That scary yet lovable bear of a guy from Four Deadly Questions, the wild and crazy blonde skinny dude from Killer Dreamer, the superhuman who [...]

The Love Language, initiated by Stuart McLamb, is a fortunate by-product of the North Carolina native’s rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and [...]

PJ Bond is one of the peripatetic musicians of this world. His global travels to promote his music sparked a unique web project called “The [...]

Gearing up for the summer release of his newest mixtape, Kragenoff, Washington, DC emcee Kenn Starr is proud to leak the first single, “The Notti Joint.” No [...]