Whether or not you normally go for hardcore, ska or reggae, this Las Vegas trio’s progressive blend should have you dancing (and pumping your fist) in no [...]

Las Vegas‘s favorite hardcore/reggae/ska/punk band is hitting the road. GC Records mainstay Holding Onto Sound will be going on a brief West Coast tour in [...]

Notorious gay-hater and former Rancid collaborator Buju Banton has been busted in Florida and sits in Federal jail in Miami. The DEA agents on Saturday [...]

After not playing together for 21 years, Spinner reports that Mick Jones (of The Clash) and the original lineup of Big Audio Dynamite are reuniting [...]

On Sunday, January 16, at 7 p.m., the doors will open to the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn for a benefit and celebration of [...]

On November 13 and 14, Verbicide is visiting one of the liveliest independent publishing conferences in North America. We always enjoy making the trip to [...]

I don’t know if the members of Holding On To Sound have actually read the preceding passage from Henry Rollins’s Black Flag tour journal, Get In The Van, but given their performance at North Las Vegas’s Area 702 Skatepark on September 19, it would appear that they inherently possess the principle.

It was three-and-a-half years ago, back in winter of 2007, that Billy Werner interviewed bassist Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains for Verbicide issue #19. In [...]

10 Ft. Ganja Plant rings the sound of roots, rocksteady, and dub from the smokey hills and rough streets of Jamaica to the ears of their [...]

To Flogging Molly fans, Nathen Maxwell is the bass player who lends his voice to “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” one of the louder and faster songs [...]

Best known for his thundering bass playing on Flogging Molly’s punch-drunk rave-ups, Nathen Maxwell isn’t the first member of the band you’d think to launch [...]

These Las Vegas natives blast onto the national scene after wowing the fans of their hometown with amazing live performances and a debut CD that [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #24 Duke University Press, 226 pages, paperback, $21.95 When we think of independent music in our local city, we think [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #15 Blue Sun Film Company/MVD 100 minutes, dir. by Ted Bafaloukos with Leroy Wallace, Richard Hall, and Marjorie Norman Let [...]