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The Front: Suspicious Behavior
by Nate Pollard

The Front: Suspicious Behavior

Verbicide’s Top 50 Albums of 2011

Verbicide’s Top 50 Albums of 2011

Our definitive list returns! Featuring chart-topping albums, some returning veterans, and a few surprise upstarts. Join us as we count down the best albums of the year.

Photo Gallery: Best Photos of 2011

Photo Gallery: Best Photos of 2011

Check out some of the amazing photography we’ve featured this year! Impressive, to say the least.

Five GoDaddy Alternatives – Protest Their Support of SOPA

Five GoDaddy Alternatives – Protest Their Support of SOPA

By now, you’ve likely heard that GoDaddy voiced early support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the free-speech trampling bill that will be voted on [...]

THE DARCYS – S/T
reviewed by Peter Cauvel

THE DARCYS – S/T

Comparisons to Radiohead are tricky. Sure, the British rock band has received almost universal acclaim, so who wouldn’t want to be like them? But Radiohead [...]

LADDER DEVILS – Forget English
reviewed by Thomas Pizzola

LADDER DEVILS – Forget English

The music contained on this debut EP hearkens back to a time when shambolic rock met with loud noisy riffs and offbeat time signatures to [...]

Then vs. Than: Why Understanding the Difference is Important

Then vs. Than: Why Understanding the Difference is Important

I’m fairly certain that texting is enfeebling the minds of an entire generation, and destroying proper grammar as we know it. Case in point, courtesy [...]

KILL LIST
reviewed by Matthew Schuchman

KILL LIST

IFC Films 92 mins., dir. by Ben Wheatley, with Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, and Michael Smiley British indie cinema produces some amazing films, and two [...]

MIKE PARK – Smile
reviewed by Shahab Zargari

MIKE PARK – Smile

Fact: Mike Park has two kids, born in 2006 and 2008. I have two kids, born in 2004 and 2007. Fact: Mike Park was the [...]

BLACK BANANAS – Rad Times Xpress IV
reviewed by Thomas Pizzola

BLACK BANANAS – Rad Times Xpress IV

When judging a piece of music by Jennifer Herrema, you must abandon all concepts of irony and just go with the flow. You just have [...]

Top 10 Toys of the 1980s

Top 10 Toys of the 1980s

Remember when you loved Christmas? I mean, when you really loved Christmas? Sure, we all love the holidays. It’s a time to reflect, to relax, [...]

The Front: 99% Naughty
by Nate Pollard

The Front: 99% Naughty

TOXIC HOLOCAUST – Conjure and Command
reviewed by Josh Diamond

TOXIC HOLOCAUST – Conjure and Command

Toxic Holocaust plays a sort of thrash metal that was at the peak of its popularity in the mid- to late ’80s.  Thrash metal took [...]

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
reviewed by Matthew Schuchman

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

Columbia Pictures 158 min. dir. by David Fincher, with Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, and Christopher Plummer Someone is trying to test my ability to not [...]

BOUNDARIES by Elizabeth Nunez
reviewed by Vanessa Bennett

BOUNDARIES by Elizabeth Nunez

Akashic Books, 275 pages, hardcover, $15.00 Set against the fast-paced backdrop of the publishing world, Boundaries is the story of a Caribbean immigrant struggling to reconcile [...]