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JOKER – The Vision
reviewed by Vanessa Bennett

JOKER – The Vision

After years of build-up, Joker’s album The Vision is finally here. The Bristol-based producer is  a child of the post-dubstep world, and it shows. Through [...]

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.

ZOMBY – Nothing
reviewed by Peter Cauvel

ZOMBY – Nothing

After releasing an LP, Dedication, earlier this year, British dubstep producer Zomby has returned with another offering, a 12” EP, Nothing. Zomby’s music is rhythmic [...]

Zomby – Things Fall Apart

Zomby – Things Fall Apart

Click below to download “Things Fall Apart,” a track from Zomby‘s 4AD debut, Dedication. Click (right click for pc) to download!

ZOMBY – Dedication
reviewed by Peter Cauvel

ZOMBY – Dedication

British dubstep producer Zomby seems uncomfortable with the LP format. His latest album, Dedication, is a wild departure from its predecessor, 2008′s rave homage Where [...]

Photo Gallery: tUnE-yArDs at Paradise Rock Club, Boston 9/21/11
photos by Michael Zonenashvili

Photo Gallery: tUnE-yArDs at Paradise Rock Club, Boston 9/21/11

4AD’s hot ticket tUnE-yArDs came through Boston; check out Michael Zonenashvili’s shots from the show!

INC. – 3
reviewed by Dan Chapman

INC. – 3

Forming a fair opinion of a band based on a three-song EP is nearly impossible. However, on what could be gleaned by their debut effort [...]

TUNE-YARDS – w h o k i l l
reviewed by Dan Chapman

TUNE-YARDS – w h o k i l l

Bravely sacrificing accessibility for an original sound, the eclectic New Englanders known as tUnE-yArDs grace the fringe of pop, yet find a way to transcend [...]

Listen to Gang Gang Dance’s New Album “Eye Contact”

Listen to Gang Gang Dance’s New Album “Eye Contact”

New York City’s Gang Gang Dance will release their new album Eye Contact on May 10th via 4AD Records. Today, the band is offering a stream of the [...]

Deerhunter Release Live Album on iTunes (and ONLY on iTunes)

Deerhunter Release Live Album on iTunes (and ONLY on iTunes)

Deerhunter played a live show at the Apple store in New York in September,  and now a live EP recorded at the show is being [...]

BROKEN RECORDS – Let Me Come Home
reviewed by Andrew Lapham Fersch

BROKEN RECORDS – Let Me Come Home

There’s something rainy and unsettling about parts of the new album from Broken Records. Maybe it’s something in their blood, from growing up in Scotland, [...]

Show Review: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010
words by Luke Winkie | photos by Kaitlyn Roche

Show Review: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010

Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.

DEERHUNTER – Halcyon Digest
reviewed by Jon Aubin

DEERHUNTER – Halcyon Digest

There are a lot of bands that write about suburbia, but few expose its corrupted underbelly as well as Deerhunter — which makes it all [...]

BLONDE REDHEAD – Penny Sparkle
reviewed by Luke Winkie

BLONDE REDHEAD – Penny Sparkle

It’s been peeling away for a while, but at this point the tense, calculated, economic guitar blasts of Blonde Redhead have completely disappeared — as [...]

STORNOWAY – Beachcomber’s Windowsill
reviewed by Jake Benjamin

STORNOWAY – Beachcomber’s Windowsill

Stornoway’s debut, Beachcomber’s Windowsill, starts off strong with “Zorbing,” a real thing (rolling down a hill in one of those giant inflatable, cushioned hamster balls). [...]