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.

Check out some of the amazing photography we’ve featured this year! Impressive, to say the least.

Having never heard of Comet Gain, I was quite surprised to learn they’ve been around since the early 1990s. Receiving high accolades in the indie [...]

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down will be taking a break from working on their third album to head out on the road with [...]

The Raincoats will reissue their second album, Odyshape, via their own label, We ThRee Records. Originally released on Rough Trade Records in 1981, Odyshape will be reissued [...]

Check out a review, photo gallery, and exclusive video from Thao and Mirah’s show!

Thao and Mirah’s critically acclaimed self-titled debut album is out now on Kill Rock Stars. Verbicide’s features editor Heather Schofner recently caught their performance in [...]

Kill Rock Stars‘ Marnie Stern has announced a brief Midwest tour in July, which will end with two shows opening up for The Flaming Lips. [...]

With Record Store Day 2011 right around the corner, VerbicideMagazine.com brings you our top picks. Should you be up early on Saturday morning, browsing your [...]

Corin Tucker and her band will be heading out on a brief, week-long West Coast tour in May. Formerly of Sleater-Kinney, Tucker released her latest [...]

Thao and Mirah are releasing an album on KRS this spring. Here’s the first single! Click (right click for pc) to download!

Kill Rock Stars has signed Brooklyn-based Milagres and will be releasing their second album, Glowing Mouth, in September 2011.   In the meantime the band [...]

The Daily Swarm reports that Brendan Majewski, former bassist of the now-defunct DC art punk band Quix*o*tic, took his own life on January 20th. He [...]

On December 17, 2010, Portland Cello Project debuted their cover of Kanye West’s “All of the Lights.” The cameras happened to be rolling, and now, [...]

This sinking ship of an economy is depriving many children of exposure to the arts. For example, in Portland, only three dollars per child per year goes to arts education. In Seattle, only seven dollars per child is doled out annually. The people who are behind Portland’s Pickathon Indie Roots Music Festival decided to do something about this — they organized Benefest, a three-show event in which all proceeds go to Buckland Elementary and the Portland Schools Foundation, to give funds to this worthy cause.