Amish Electric Chair is a DIY punk band from Athens, Ohio. They’re currently signed to Geykido Comet Records and have been touring the East Coast almost constantly since they solidified as a band five years ago. AEC is a powerful trio, made up of brothers Neil Tuuri (guitar/lead vocals) and Eric “Scotty” Tuuri (drums) and [...]

There’s no doubting that with the times we’re in, everyone is feeling a little more blue collar than they may be used to. But there’s an artist who shines the light on these frustrations and attitudes seldom heard in music: Mike McColgan. Formerly of the Dropkick Murphys, McColgan sings for the Boston-bred punk group Street [...]

James Duke is a soft spoken guy, tall and thin with a broad smile that spreads from ear to ear. He’s the kind of guy who, when asked if he plays the piano, answers with a laugh and says, “That’s a funny question.”
Duke, 21, lives in an apartment on a second-floor loft in Kalamazoo, Michigan, [...]

Minor Kingdom mastermind Kristian Melom’s taste is wider than yours. Sure, he specializes in introspective, barely-plucked folk songs, but he’s more than willing to enter the oft-forgotten aisles of the record store.
“Lately I have been listening to a lot of Gillian Welch, Harry Nilsson, Peter Wolf Crier, Erykah Badu, and Al Green to name a [...]

Meghan Wolf is as multifaceted as a sparkly cut gem. She’s one of those artists who simply does it all — she’s a singer/songwriter, guitar and piano player, she has her master’s in fine arts, and she’s an actress to boot! Formerly the lead vocalist of New York No Stars, a punk group based in [...]

In music there are often projects loaded with ambition and good ideas that, despite all the roadblocks, get pulled off with impressive solidarity. The Rentals’ Songs About Time is certainly one of these projects.  In the newest release from the famed moog rockers, The Rentals head honcho Matt Sharp juggles around various media formats, spanning photography [...]

I guess in the name of full disclosure I should start off by mentioning that I am a former resident of New Orleans. I moved there in the late ’80s — a wayward twenty-something searching for new beginnings, trying to make sense of myself and the world. To say the “Big Easy” was [...]

Briton based psych-rockers Malachai make music that spans your mom’s, dad’s, older brother’s, and eighth grade English teacher’s record collection. Charmingly offbeat and incontrovertibly badass, their debut The Ugly Side of Love can dance, sing, head-bang, and is probably willing to buy cigarettes for you while you’re waiting in the car. Verbicide recently contacted the [...]

New Haven, Connecticut — besides being the home of that bastion of higher education Yale University — has a much clearer and more respectable distinction: the birthplace of the single greatest, wordly observed, modern invention known to humankind: New Haven is the birthplace of the hamburger!
And heavy-handed, hair-thin segues aside, the next beefy global export [...]

Into It. Over It. is bassist Evan Weiss. His recent album, 52 Weeks, plays out as one part album, one part biography, and one part psychological case study. The whole concept was to write one song a week for an entire year.
“I’ve always written better on a deadline,” says Weiss. “I was stuck emotionally and musically [...]

Christmas is a psych-punk band from Olympia, WA. This past summer, I stumbled upon their wild daytime set at the Helsing Junction Sleepover. I’m pretty sure I was put under some sort of black magic, because I’ve been thinking of the show on and off ever since. It’s interesting that a group of witchypoos would [...]

If she wanted to, Emily Haines of Metric could start an outright riot. I witnessed her come close to inciting a riot in March of 2004 at Nashville’s Exit/In, when Haines had so much command of the frenzied audience that she was able to pull us back from the edge. That show became the standard [...]

As prolific as he is as a recording artist, Kyp Malone is terribly difficult to define. From his band’s hard-fought successes, Malone and his band mates have been changing the sound of popular music as the music industry itself is resistant to any type of change in a digital world. Malone’s latest offering, Rain [...]

Comic books and music often come together in strange, blind date sort of situations that feel forced and unwholesome. It’s hard to believe that your favorite arena rock star (ala Gene Simmons or Ozzy Osbourne) will suddenly save the world using the power of ROCK.
One Model Nation, by C. Allbritton Taylor and Donovan Leitch, is [...]

Unless you’re well-versed in Mother Goose, you’re probably like me and you’ve never heard the nursery rhyme of the bell horses. Long before people and goods were transported by car and diesel trucks along major highways, horses pulled wagons along narrow roads. And before there were headlights, the only thing that could prevent passing wagons [...]