Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.
Lou Barlow is best known as the bass player in Dinosaur Jr., but not long ago he was one of the principal singer-songwriters of his [...]
Described by the band as “an almost live representation of the Lou Barlow + the missingmen live show,” the band’s new digital EP = Sentridoh III [...]
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 [...]
In 1978 the Descendents formed under their common credo of fishing, girls, and velocity. Existing briefly as a power trio, the LA-based group released the [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #21 If you could put together a fantasy league band the same way you can a baseball team, who would you [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Some of the best bass players I’ve seen have been quiet men in the background, crafting a spinal column [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #12 Beyond the laughable fashion, the corporate pop, and the buttons and canvas patches, punk rock embodies an ideology — [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #11 Fans of the Descendents never know what to expect from the off-and-on punk band. Since frontman Milo Aukerman went [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #6 During my time spent living in Budapest, I had a select few albums that were essential for long, overnight [...]
Originally published in Verbicide issue #6 I’d been a fan of Henry’s work for many years, namely of his music and his hilariously ironic role [...]
