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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.

THE DARCYS – S/T
reviewed by Peter Cauvel

THE DARCYS – S/T

Comparisons to Radiohead are tricky. Sure, the British rock band has received almost universal acclaim, so who wouldn’t want to be like them? But Radiohead [...]

Photo Gallery: Feist at the Moore Theater, Seattle 11/17/11
photos by Suzi Pratt

Photo Gallery: Feist at the Moore Theater, Seattle 11/17/11

Feist’s voice was gorgeous as always at her stop in Seattle; Suzi Pratt shares photos from the show.

DAN MANGAN – Oh Fortune
reviewed by Dan Chapman

DAN MANGAN – Oh Fortune

I can’t decide whether I like this album. On one end there’s the notion that Dan Mangan basically re-recorded Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast, but on [...]

Show Review: NXNE 2011
words by Garrett Lyons | photos by Leigh Metzler

Show Review: NXNE 2011

One of the beautiful things about NXNE is that one can stick with big-name acts, or get adventurous and go find the lesser-known artists.

MEMPHIS – Here Comes a City
reviewed by Vanessa Bennett

MEMPHIS – Here Comes a City

Torquil Campbell is back flooding listeners with spacey soundscapes and exuberant pop beats with his side project, Memphis. Partnering with friend Chris Dumont, the hazy [...]

CHIKITA VIOLENTA – TRE3S
reviewed by Andrew Lapham Fersch

CHIKITA VIOLENTA – TRE3S

The bastard love child of Vampire Weekend, the Go Team!, garage rock, and Kimya Dawson, Chikita Violenta is certainly all over the popular indie rock [...]

DAN MANGAN – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
reviewed by Ryan Moore

DAN MANGAN – Nice, Nice, Very Nice

As an avid lover of the Pacific Northwest, I always shed a tear of joy onto my rain-soaked cheek whenever I see another Vancouver artist [...]

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE – Forgiveness Rock Record
reviewed by Brian McKinney

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE – Forgiveness Rock Record

Like Lapidus on the “Lost” series finale, Broken Social Scene (under the guidance of founders Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning) wastes no time getting their [...]

Show Review: Sasquatch! 2010
words and photos by Gary Lappier

Show Review: Sasquatch! 2010

The 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival is now in the bag, and now that the last notes of Ween’s epic closing set have floated back into the ether, I am here to fill you in. The weekend, which took place at The Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Washington, in was chock full of good, bad, and some truly ugly moments.

SALLY SELTMANN – Heart That’s Pounding
reviewed by Hanna Rose

SALLY SELTMANN – Heart That’s Pounding

Quiet whispers and schoolyard chants, innocence and simplicity — simply beautiful, that is. This sweet menagerie of inspiring ballads found me at just the right [...]

JASON COLLETT – Rat A Tat Tat
reviewed by James Yates

JASON COLLETT – Rat A Tat Tat

Jason Collett has one topic he wants to cover on his newest album, Rat A Tat Tat. That topic is love — the good, the [...]

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 3

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 3

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…

Metric – Help I’m Alive (80 Kidz Remix)

Metric – Help I’m Alive (80 Kidz Remix)

Formed in Toronto but, at various times, based in Montreal, London, New York and L.A., Metric boasts the sort of history that requires one of [...]

Show Review: Metric at La Zona Rosa, Austin 12/1/09
words by Nate Griffin | photos by Cayte Nobles

Show Review: Metric at La Zona Rosa, Austin 12/1/09

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.