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.

For the second year in a row, Superchunk has covered and made available for free a cover of a Misfits tune. From the band: “Happy [...]

Music chatters tend to toss the term “supergroup” around frequently without much thought. Monsters of Folk, The Dead Weather, Broken Bells — all technically supergroups, [...]

Buckner’s ninth full-length album comes on the heels of much tribulation, culminating in a stolen laptop and a re-imagining of this album — but you [...]

If you haven’t yet, head on over to NPR’s website to stream the forthcoming self-titled album from Wild Flag, due out September 13th on Merge [...]

After a long, six-month absence, the Verbicide Select Mixtape makes its triumphant comeback. Was it worth the wait? You bet! We’ve packed this mixtape with [...]

Merge Records will reissue all four Archers of Loaf studio albums, starting with their acclaimed 1993 debut album Icky Mettle on August 2nd. Click below to [...]

Leigh Metzler shares some gorgeous pics from The Mountain Goats’ performance in Philly.

The Mountain Goats have never ceased to grow and mature on their albums. From the static-y, garage band sound of All Hail West Texas to [...]

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 [...]

Amor de Días — Alasdair MacLean, front man for UK group The Clientele, and Lupe Núñez-Fernández of indie-pop duo Pipas — have announced a North American tour with dream-pop duo Damon & Naomi, who also appear on their [...]

The Spike Jonze-directed short film Scenes From The Suburbs, which first appeared in an abbreviated form in the video for Arcade Fire‘s “The Suburbs,” will [...]

Right on the heels of winning a Grammy for Album of the Year, Arcade Fire has announced a world tour that will span several months [...]

As the story goes, Ross Flournoy entered a songwriting contest on a whim and ended up with the foundation of the debut album of Apex [...]