Is Spoon the New Power Generation for the Pitchfork crowd? That’s the question posited by Spoon’s seventh studio album, Transference. Just think about that funky Batman soundtrack if you don’t get the connection. It’s easily to see Prince’s “Future” slipping between the one-two punch of Transference’s, “Who Makes Your Money” and “Written In Reverse.” Rob [...]

On March 23, Radar Brothers will release The Illustrated Garden. Jim Putnam has found a new band of brothers in bass player Be Hussey and drummer Stevie Treichel, two partners who are equally passionate about the band.
The original line-up of Radar Brothers died on January 29, 2008. The band was on stage at the Echo [...]

After a year of touring behind their acclaimed second record, Our Ill Wills, the Shout Out Louds went their separate ways — singer/main songwriter Adam Olenius to Melbourne, Australia, keyboard/vocalist Bebban Stenborg to Los Angeles, drummer Eric Edman, bassist Ted Malmros and guitarist Carl von Arbin back to Stockholm – and took a much needed [...]

Just in time for the holidays, VerbicideMagazine.com is excited to release Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 2, available here for FREE DOWNLOAD. With even more tracks and more variety than Volume 1, this new mixtape will appeal to fans with a wide range of musical taste.

On November 17, Merge Records released SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Remixes! on limited edition CD and digital download. The Remixes! is one of three components of Merge’s 20th anniversary subscription box set that is available to non-subscribers. All proceeds benefit charities chosen by the SCORE! curators.
From more traditional remixes to complete reimaginings [...]

You love music, that’s just a fact. But let’s not pretend that music doesn’t come with a host of problems. For starters, there’s just too much of it. I mean, there are only 24 hours in a day and it seems like there’s a great new band popping up every second. That’s 86,400 new bands [...]

What would drive me out into a cool and rainy night in Austin, winding down Lamar with some Bali Shag and a cold cup of Espresso?
I want to get my head blown off.
I work in the warehouses now, and every day I am suffering to the tired sounds of classic rock: songs that are 30 [...]

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 when you take the long-view, few artists have been as prolific, productive, and influential over the last 20 years. Barlow burst onto the scene as the bass-player in the seminal [...]

What can be said about The Clean? In 1978, they were the seeds of New Zealand punk and the reason for the founding of Flying Nun, one of the greatest record labels that ever existed. They carved out a big sandbox for everyone to play in, and their influence resonated not only in New Zealand [...]

Former Dinosaur Jr. member Lou Barlow began the recording process of his new solo album Goodnight Unknown with the goal of making this album more aggressive and denser in the style of his earlier Sebadoh recordings. Barlow turned to Dale Crover of The Melvins to play the drums on six songs, and producer Andrew “Mudrock” [...]