Little, Brown and Company, 176 pages, hardcover, $21.99 Following in the footsteps of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and [...]

Smoke or Fire  have released The Speakeasy, their third full-length, recorded by Matt Allison at Atlas Studios. A member change welcomes Ryan Parrish (Darkest Hour), who lends [...]

It is a common practice to lead with a strong single when arranging track-listings — it helps to counteract quick judgments and bolster a listener’s [...]

The world needs more bands like Japandroids.  While most new groups drop a debut and leave us salivating for what can be years, this Vancouver [...]

For his sixth album, entitled Risk, Daniel G. Harmann has beefed up his sound with The Trouble Starts. Primarily a solo artist, Harmann describes the new album as a collection of “Big [...]

On November 13 and 14, VerbicideMagazine.com returned to the Expozine in Montreal, one of North America’s best independent media fairs. Not only did we give [...]

This summer I was lucky enough to cover Lilith Fair’s stop in Portland, Oregon. I dodged raindrops, grabbing shots of the amazing women performing that [...]

Her latest CD, Life in Letters, introduces the new 20-year-old face of Lucy Schwartz, but listeners may already know her voice. How could anyone forget it? [...]

As the story goes, Ross Flournoy entered a songwriting contest on a whim and ended up with the foundation of the debut album of Apex [...]

“You smell like some cheap whore’s cheaper perfume.” Yup, that sorta lyric works wonders if it happens to be sung by a lady over some [...]

The ever changing and constantly progressing Rodeo Massacre are back with their new single “Zombies Of Life” and it’s a brilliant slice of rip roaring psychedelic skuzzy [...]