After 31 years, pioneering alternative rock band REM have called it quits. The band announced today on their website that they are through: “To our [...]

Via TwentyFourBit comes the news that Michael Stipe of REM will be producing a new documentary on the life and death of his longtime friend [...]

Close friends of Vic Chesnutt‘s who’d spoke of someday perhaps collaborating, the Cowboy Junkies will be releasing a tribute album entitled Demons consisting of Chesnutt’s [...]

Formed in Athens, GA in 2008, Gift Horse is Hunter Morris (vocals/keyboards), Mike Stokes (guitar/vocals), Vaughan Lamb (bass), and Brandon Scarboro (drums). Gift Horse’s captivating and intense [...]

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 [...]

Amish Electric Chair is a DIY punk band from Athens, Ohio. They’re currently signed to Geykido Comet Records and have been touring the East Coast [...]

Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country and Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia. The band was founded in 1996 by Patterson Hood and longtime [...]

I’ve wanted to write seriously about Chesnutt for years. I hoped one day to do a long interview with him for Verbicide. I figured that now that I was back in Georgia the opportunities to talk to his friends and family might present themselves and I could do an even longer piece. Why not? Even with his personal life in turmoil, his career was on an extraordinary trajectory.