Mr. Wells is in the wrong business: he should have been a blues singer. On his homage to Louisville, Kentucky, he can’t live with your fears and worries, nor does he think its ever going to work out, and you will haunt him, how you will haunt him. His Daniel Johnston-style vocals showcase these both [...]

An exercise in genre-bending psychedelic madness, The Harvey Girls’ latest release, I’ve Been Watching A Lot of Horror Movies Lately, is the quintessential day-tripper’s soundtrack.  Filled with layers upon layers of miscellaneous instruments, African-inspired beats, and field recordings from the great outdoors of Portland, Oregon, The Harvey Girls cross the lines of shoe-gazing folk-rock, indie-pop, [...]

“Folk music” is a term used loosely these days; hard to differentiate as something feasibly unique to its own genre — “folk” pertains to a broad spectrum of separate cultures and their own unique qualities, stylized by “roots” or “Americana,” yet continually evolving from its traditional roots.
The traditional formation of folk music was a bare [...]

With the release of her latest album Victorian America, Emily Jane White has a lot to be happy about. Just returning from a successful European tour and about to head back for another quick jaunt, White has enjoyed marked success abroad with her current release following 2007’s Dark Undercoat, and is quickly gaining momentum [...]

Full of soulful urgency and longing, of lost sailors, cruel pirates and creeping inevitabilities, the new solo album by Jon Langford travels o’er the seas and malls, from the pubs of Wales to the swamps of the settled life, steeped in the haunted, never-ending search for place. Old Devils sits on the tuff wharves of the world [...]

Available now for free download, Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 6 is our collection of the best and most popular tracks featured on VerbicideMagazine.com in the past couple months, with a few special, previously unreleased tracks mixed in.
Where else can you hear the folksy tunes of Mountain Man alongside the cacophonous metal blasts of Howl? Where [...]

Simple melodies, finger-picked acoustic guitar, and layered harmonies drenched in rich reverb are all that gets stirred into Mountain Man’s Made the Harbor. Yet the minimalist album finds plenty of depth in its 13 songs.
When Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath put their voices together, they seem to become three folk sirens luring [...]

Still maturing from a childhood project that combined brothers Sean and Jimmy Galloway’s first names, The Shimmies have created a self-appointed genre for themselves, which they lovingly refer to as “home school rock.” Much the way a home schooled child’s take on a book may have less to do with the collective opinion of their peers, so does The [...]

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 [...]

From the first track of Paper Diamonds, the latest album by Northern California’s indie folk sweetheart, Ash Reiter, I felt like I was sinking into a delicious leather sofa…the kind you find on the side of the road and bring home to your front porch…the kind that wraps you in deep squeaky softness despite being [...]

Marking another notch in the lineage of American folk music, Blitzen Trapper continues to serve as an all-too-modern history lesson on their fifth album, Destroyer of the Void. Taking pages from folk, classic rock, and modern indie rock, Blitzen Trapper doesn’t lose a step from 2008’s Furr, the album that put them on my (and [...]

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 [...]

Son of a preacher-man, 29 year-old American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Jon Lindsay was born in Portland, Oregon, and currently resides in North Carolina.
While honing his solo songwriting craft (he’s been writing and performing songs since the age of three) and compiling an arsenal of riveting material, he’s also been busy cutting his teeth the last decade [...]

Hadestown was originally a stage production, lovingly dubbed a folk opera by its creator, Anais Mitchell. The idea was hatched in small-town Vermont by a community of individuals who have farms, trade vegetables, and make music when they’re bored. Anais called it an opera because by definition that’s what it is, “a dramatic work in [...]

Every now and then, artists will get one of those ideas — the kinds of ideas we like to refer to as “concepts.” When these floating, surreal concepts are integrated into the music world, they often intersect the line that separates genius and madness.
Enter Anais Mitchell to challenge everything you thought you knew about the [...]