It is soundcheck, and Autry Rene Fulbright, lead singer of Midnight Masses, stands at the edge of the small Union Pool stage on the last night of their residency, the venue nearly packed with hipsters, hip-hoppers, and rockers alike. Fulbright, who has the presence and dressings of a 1950s Motown crooner, releases his mic stand [...]

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 [...]

Thao Nguyen and her backing duo The Get Down Stay Down were in one of many places they can call “home” when they took the stage at The Canal Club in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday, November 7. Drummer Willis Thompson and bassist Adam Thompson (no relation) did their time living in Richmond, while Willis and [...]

What could be better than attending a costume-compulsive affair bolstered by a ballsy band like Big Business? Halloween, a day that offers up way more fun time than your modern day consumer Christmas, couldn’t disappoint. I dressed as Keith Richards, complete with ’70s area accessories, a truly ridiculous wig held on my head with a [...]

“This fest doesn’t attract the asshole crowd of fuckin’ Dr. Seuss hats and annoying festival dipshits,” said Mike Sullivan, guitarist of Russian Circles, while sitting in the media tent at Austin’s Waterloo Park on November 7. Austin-based Transmission Entertainment’s fourth annual effort to host a music festival with an emphasis on independent music — otherwise [...]

Verbicide gets weak in the knees as Theophilus London charms his way onto the CMJ stage at (le) possion rouge.

Verbicide magazine joins Ninjasonik as they bum rush the stage at (le) poisson rouge in New York for a raucous CMJ show.

It’s September 8, 1998. I’m less than two weeks into my freshman year of college, and already I’m bored and alienated, the world around me awash in the sounds of Korn and Dave Matthews, the smell of dormitory BO and cheap hair gel, and the sight of 30-packs of watery light swill portioned out into [...]

So let’s face it — Nashville is a place for music. You don’t have to believe me, but it’s true. So if you’re an artist and you’re playing a show in Nashville, then what do you do to keep your voice from drowning among the thousands of others belting, rasping, screaming, and rocking some serious [...]

It’s always so exciting when you’re attending an outdoor musical event and you can hear the bands sound checking on the other side of the lined fences as you approach the main gates. The music is so distant, yet travels so melodically. This morning, walking the fence line my ears were filled with the sonic [...]

What began as a PBS music feature in 1976 is now the longest running concert music series in American television history. Austin City Limits began and continues as a PBS mainstay, but since 2002 also exists as an annual outdoor music festival, flooding the Austin Zilker Park for at least three days each year with [...]

Verbicide magazine finishes up the last show of the Jelly NYC Pool Party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with concerts from Grizzly Bear and Beach House.

Helsing Junction is an organic farm in rural Thurston County, outside of Olympia, Washington. Each year in August, K Records and Helsing Junction hold a concert event lovingly referred to as the Helsing Junction Sleepover. It’s the sort of event that everyone should get the chance to attend before they die. The natural surroundings at [...]

There’s a standard line that goes with most stories about St. Vincent that goes something like this: young up-and-coming singer/songwriter/guitarist with an impressive resume (backing both Sufjan Stevens and The Polyphonic Spree) composes lush symphonic arrangements on a laptop to frame her heart-rending vocals. St. Vincent never sounds the same from song to song, but [...]

Verbicide magazine takes a trip to the 2009 Warped Tour at Virginia Beach, featuring All Time Low,  Jet lag Gemini, Less Than Jake, NoFX, and Underoath. For more Warped Tour pictures, click here.