Akashic Books, 150 pages with 140 color illustrations, trade paperback, $22.95 Does a skilled rendering of a chimp on a bicycle, turtles raising a flag [...]

What could be better than attending a costume-compulsive affair bolstered by a ballsy band like Big Business? Halloween, a day that offers up way more [...]

I kind of like the music, but I definitely don’t like lead man Todd Portnowitz’s vocals and his overblown lyrics. Just because you name drop [...]

I haven’t heard much in the way of rock opera lately, so when I first listened to this album I had a hard time initially [...]

April was a 65-year-old woman who lived in a run-down 24-room Victorian mansion, complete with a once-glorious garden designed by the same man who drew up the plans for New York City’s Central Park, in what had been a most elite neighborhood in a small historic New England town.

Imagine the sound of Madonna suddenly obsessing over Chinese styled karaoke ballads. Enter Birgit. Judging by the album shots, Birgit, with her foxy Eurasian self, [...]

A mod rock revival never sounded so good. Are these guys even from the land that brought us Marmite, James Bond, and parliamentary democracy? No, [...]

Wow, did I just get kicked in the ass back to my high school years? It’s been awhile since I held a 7” single. It’s [...]

A condensed version of this interview was originally published in Verbicide issue #23 John Stabb, the erstwhile bandleader of the influential hardcore ‘80s DC outfit Government [...]

We like U2 and aren’t afraid to make it known with our rising guitar work, super breathy vocal,s and proclamations of “halleluiah!” We start out [...]

This could be titled: “Music for Young Middle Class White People Just Starting a Family.” I’m not implying that it’s bad, it’s just got no [...]

The chubby, self-effacing funnyman with a supporting role on “The King of Queens” has upped his hipster cred a tick or two by putting out [...]

This four-song sampler sounds like The Smiths with less production value and more synths and drum machines. Don’t worry, the same level of touchy-feely wistful [...]

This kind of sound could be popular with your Panic at the Disco crowd, full of catchy little hooks and overly breathy, whiny lead vocals. [...]

Three Canadians with synths, guitars, drums, and an arty take on things left alone to their own devices have produced their third release, making a [...]