Bewaaaaaare…for it has been foretold by the prophets that on the 13th hour of the 17th day of the 3rd month in the 2010th year of our lord that Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 4 shall rise from the grave and walk amongst the living…
Hear! Thirteen tracks of indie rock, hip-hop, and other unclassifiable horrors!
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During my long association with Verbicide Magazine, I have unleashed a torrent of words, a tsunami of syllables, an army of independent clauses marching aimlessly in search of a point.  When I consider the breadth of that writing, I can only shake my head in wonder at the patience of my editors.  I’ve written about [...]

Kill Rock Stars is very excited to announce that on April 6th, 2010, they will be adding Elliott Smith’sRoman Candle and From a Basement on the Hill records to their catalog.
Roman Candle is Elliott Smith’s first solo album and was originally released on Portland’s Cavity Search Records in 1994.
Roman Candle had quite an impact on Slim [...]

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 [...]

New Orleans is a city defined by its unique and colorful history. It’s for that reason that most tend to view the place as something of a musical museum while ignoring the town’s vibrant and innovative new music. In New Orleans, the hip-hop at the heart of today’s culture emerged from an energetic, highly eroticized [...]

Has it really been almost two months since our last mix? Hey, give us a break. We’ve been busy. All this groundbreaking music coverage doesn’t write itself, you know. Plus, we had the holidays to contend with. Everyone’s busy around the holidays, right? Yeah, that’s a feasible excuse…

Kill Rock Stars is very excited to announce that on April 6th, 2010, they will be adding Elliott Smith’s Roman Candle and From a Basement on the Hill records to their catalog.
Roman Candle is Elliott Smith’s first solo album and was originally released on Portland’s Cavity Search Records in 1994.
Roman Candle had quite an [...]

The Rain Machine discussed here is neither snake-oil nor cash money precipitation, but rather the debut album from Kyp Malone, singer and guitarist of TV on the Radio. Over the last six years, many words have been used to capture the Brooklyn-based band: experimental, dark, moody, art-rock, hipster. But TV on the Radio can best [...]

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 [...]

Busdriver spits internal rhymes and metaphors at machine-gun rates with great ease. I have no doubt he ties his shoelaces, dresses himself, and drives to work using only the sheer strength and agility of his tongue. But it is how Busdriver manages to pack an encyclopedia-worth of information into Road Kill Overcoat, his fifth release.
Pick [...]

Although Youth Group’s third studio album is my first experience with their music, I have an immediate point of reference for what I’ve found there. Many children of the ‘80s will want to start their first drive of Casino Twilight Dogs with track eight, a cover of Alphaville’s “Forever Young.” I did at least. Seeing [...]