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 truly ugly moments.
The New Pornographers formed in 1997, almost immediately recorded the classic Letter From An Occupant, and it was on. Their four full-lengths (as well as numerous [...]
Oh yes, oh yes, Harlem is loaded. Take it however you like it, but this threesome have bred a homely blend of punk, pop, rock, [...]
Harlem are two parts Arizonian (Michael “Coomers” Coomer and Curtis O’mara) and one part North Carolinian (Jose Boyer). Harlem are currently based in Austin, Texas. With Hippies, [...]
Shearwater’s newest album, The Golden Archipelago, is the definition of a solid album. There is nothing here all that new or exciting, but most of [...]
Shearwater continue to explore the beauty, menace, and fragility of the natural world — and that increasingly rare species, the indivisible album — on The [...]
Fans of Pavement tend to be absolutists; it’s hard to be ambivalent about the band’s music. Their fans love all of the records, all of [...]
At long last it is upon us. One of the most important and influential alternative bands of the 1990s, Pavement, have reunited. To commemorate the occasion, [...]
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have arrived on the almighty Matador Records with The Brutalist Bricks, a nonstop work of musical expertise. It’s a beautiful [...]
Though a succession of releases for the Gern Blandsten, Ace Fu, Lookout (and most recently) Touch & Go labels, Ted has established himself as one [...]
It could be said that 2008 was a turbulent year for the high-energy act from Toronto, Ontario. Releasing the highly successful album The Chemistry of [...]
On January 26, Matador Records will be releasing a double-CD and double-LP compilation of Fucked Up’s many, many hard-to-find uncollected 7″ and 12″ tracks. Entitled [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #20 Like the butterfly that is a recurring image in their music, Blonde Redhead has undergone a transformation. Having previously [...]
In 1990, a pretty, soft-spoken girl by the name of Mary Timony started making waves in her hometown of Washington, DC. As a singer and [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #3 Ever since I first heard the poppy and hypnotic sounds of indie-rockers Helium in 1996, I have been a [...]
