Pall Jenkins lives in San Diego. The first time I heard his band Three Mile Pilot I was in San Francisco. I endured an ill-advised [...]

On November 13 and 14, Verbicide is visiting one of the liveliest independent publishing conferences in North America. We always enjoy making the trip to [...]

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.

You have to give the surviving members of Nirvana credit: they never sold out with a phony reunion fronted by an imposter. Kurt Cobain‘s death [...]

There’s a famous line in the 1992 comedy White Men Can’t Jump in which Wesley Snipes’ character explains something to Woody Harrelson’s character about the [...]

When this was first released back in 2000, Queens of the Stone Age were on the start of a roll that would not only see [...]

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.

“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 [...]

A side-project for Queens of the Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman, Mini Mansions’ debut self-titled album smacks of its influences — in place of a [...]

As the summer days die away, Verbicide Select Mixtape roars back to life with a seventh volume, now available for free download. We’ve got classic [...]

My first exposure to Corin Tucker was a mix tape made by a girl living in Portland in 1997. She included the Sleater-Kinney song “Good [...]

Hurley marks a sea change in the career of Weezer. Not only does it make the band’s first true indie release after leaving Universal Music [...]

We all know that alt-rock icons Weezer have signed to Epitaph Records after a 16-year stint on Geffen. We all know the new album, Hurley, [...]

The Posies premiere their first song “Licenses To Hide” off the anticipated CD Blood/Candy (September 28) with Ryko. The single, featuring angelic guest vocals from Lisa [...]