God-King Jeremy is the current ruler of the planet.  After wiping out Earth’s defenses, he set to work reorganizing the world’s social, political, information, and [...]

“Our boys are great travelers,” says Cloud Cult cellist Sarah Young. Though referring to her two children, she could easily be describing the male contingent [...]

Matt Freeman, bassist for Rancid, received his first stand-up bass from “Mr. Brett” Gurewitz, Rancid’s longtime producer, about 15 years ago.  The instrument first appeared [...]

Ithaca is an odd city. It is one of the few bastions of green energy in the bleak road map of upstate New York with [...]

Introducing Annie Bethancourt, winner of the 2010 Verbicide Unsigned contest Judges’ Choice award! We’ve read that you grew up “memorizing lyrics to Paul Simon songs,” so [...]

Introducing Philly Moves, winner of the 2010 Verbicide Unsigned contest Readers’ Choice award! Regale us with the legend of Philly Moves. How did you guys meet up and [...]

“Dan Sartain is a hack who steals shit from more talented people.” Is that a quote from a hater on Dan’s MySpace page? No, actually [...]

If the J-pop loving, basement-dwelling otaku stereotype has become obsolete in today’s global musical community, then someone forgot to tell audience at the Far East to East concert at New York City”s Irving Plaza. I

Some days you are just down. Nothing in particular has to go wrong on these days; you just find yourself filled with a general gloominess. You mope around like you have real problems and shrug off any rays of sunshine.

On these days you need Matt & Kim.

David Pajo (aka Papa M, Aerial M, M) is the ultimate rock n’ roll renaissance man. He hops genres like a bullfrog with a bottle [...]

At this point, Teenage Fanclub must feel pretty comfortable seeming out of place and sounding outside of time, though never out of tune. They’ve been [...]

The Melvins have roots in the Olympia area — the band formed in the early ’80s in Montesano, Washington, a small town near the coast that’s less than hour away from Oly. At the all ages show at the Capitol Theater on a Wednesday night, fans ranging in age from 15 to 92 came to watch Buzz’s giant gray afro thrash under the lights — and they were not disappointed.

Don’t let that Volkswagen parked in front of the Christopher Henry gallery in New York City fool you. Yes, it’s covered in colorful crochet from hood to bumper. Yes, it’s meant to entice you to check out the rest of the exhibit by Olek, a Polish artist with a penchant for yarn bombing just about anything that’s stationary. But this is not your granny’s crochet.

“It’s almost the end. I don’t want it to end. It’s almost the end.” Stephen Malkmus was his usual enigmatic self on Thursday,  September 23rd [...]

The closest one can get to spirituality through music in Olympia on an average day are generally through the numerous drum circles that congregate at [...]