Is it me or does it just seem like each new Andrew Jackson Jihad release is becoming something of an event? Certainly their most recent [...]

Portland’s Typhoon — who released Verbicide‘s number one ranked album of 2010 — are offering a free MP3 from their forthcoming EP A New Kind [...]

Certain individual musicians seem to embody the true spirit of the music they play. By any definition, Mike Watt fits that bill. From his early [...]

A funny thing happened to punk rock as it made its way towards history’s dustbin. Beginning in the early ’90s it seemed inevitable that punk [...]

October 14, 1978. It was the fall of my senior year in high school. My buddy’s parents were out of town and you know exactly [...]

When it comes to the history of punk rock, there are few individuals who can truthfully say they’ve seen it all.  Cheetah Chrome was present [...]

Like everyone else who loves music, I sometimes despair that it has all been done before.  I get bored and frustrated by the lack of [...]

I am a firm believer that the best music has the power to transport its listeners to another place and time.  That new geography might [...]

It seems like The Runaways are everywhere these days.  A new biopic starring Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie opened [...]

In his touching memorial of Vic Chesnutt, Mark Huddle points out that, before his death, Chesnutt was in medical debt of up to $70,000.  Debt [...]

“Punk rock is dead!  Long live punk rock!” I have been hearing some variation on that riff for the better part of 30 years.  Like [...]

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 [...]

I guess in the name of full disclosure I should start off by mentioning that I am a former resident of New Orleans. I moved [...]

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.

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 [...]