From the very first seconds of the new Villagers’ release Becoming a Jackal, he’s got you. A faint drone of organ, joined by eerie strings and a cascade of piano that collectively casts a Hitchcock movie shadow before a hushed voice asks, “Have you got just a minute?/Are you easily led?/Let me show the backroom/Where [...]

Described by the band as “an almost live representation of the Lou Barlow + the missingmen live show,” the band’s new digital EP = Sentridoh III (Merge Records) is another step forward for Lou Barlow, and his first release with new backing band the missingmen (guitarist Tom Watson and drummer Raul Morales). With new cuts, rocking [...]

Swiss Dots
54 min., dir. by Danny Perez
One has to have affection for a film that doesn’t overstay its welcome. This is especially dangerous turf in the realm of experimental film. So challenging is the medium that each person will hold their own time limit. If ODDSAC can be applauded for anything, it is that it [...]

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!
Listen! To [...]

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 [...]

Briton based psych-rockers Malachai make music that spans your mom’s, dad’s, older brother’s, and eighth grade English teacher’s record collection. Charmingly offbeat and incontrovertibly badass, their debut The Ugly Side of Love can dance, sing, head-bang, and is probably willing to buy cigarettes for you while you’re waiting in the car. Verbicide recently contacted the [...]

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…

“My Girls” is the second track from Merriweather Post Pavilion, the ninth studio album from Animal Collective, recorded with Ben Allen in Oxford, Mississippi. After listening to this record, however, it’s clear that Animal Collective have transcended the everyday realities of numbers, locations, and people and arrived at a spectacular, unique place. Animal Collective have [...]

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 [...]

Malachai’s origins are in Bristol, on the West Coast of England in Briston, and are indicative of the kind of artists that originate from Bristol: dubstep running through their bones, hip-hop in the fingers, ‘60s psychedelia in the heart. It’s only right, then, that Portishead mastermind Geoff Barrow has a thumb in this project. [...]

Lou Reed once asked, “What becomes a legend most?” No doubt the unfailingly modest Lou Barlow would blanch at being called a “legend.” And yet when you take the long-view, few artists have been as prolific, productive, and influential over the last 20 years. Barlow burst onto the scene as the bass-player in the seminal [...]