Verbicide Magazine
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Verbicide is an independent entertainment website based jointly out of Las Vegas, Nevada and Brooklyn, New York. It is co-published via Scissor Press by founding editor Jackson Ellis and creative director Nathaniel Pollard.
Verbicide was founded in 1999 in New Haven, Connecticut by Jackson Ellis. The first issue came out in September 1999, a handmade (cut-and-paste), 12-page photocopied zine. By 2003, Verbicide was a full-color offset quarterly with a glossy cover, with free circulation in New York, Austin, Los Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco, and newsstand circulation in all 50 states and Canada.
In March 2009, the 25th and final print edition of Verbicide was released, and the magazine was relaunched online on August 1, 2009. Upon moving online, Heather Schofner became the features editor, and Erin Gambrill joined as the fiction editor.
Verbicide includes music reviews, interviews with musicians and authors, book and film reviews, and featured columns by Larry Livermore
, Mark Huddle, and Douglas Novielli. Past features have featured interviews with the likes of Chuck D
, Henry Rollins
, Ian MacKaye
, Saul Williams
, The Gorillaz, The Donnas
, and the Beastie Boys
. Verbicide has published fiction by authors including Raegan Butcher
, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Diane DiPrima, Christopher Staley, Nelson Algren
, John Fante
, Joe Meno
, and Jack Kerouac
.
Los Angeles zine Razorcake
described Verbicide as a "a good mag by an editor who’s fighting the good fight".
Verbicide was founded in 1999 in New Haven, Connecticut by Jackson Ellis. The first issue came out in September 1999, a handmade (cut-and-paste), 12-page photocopied zine. By 2003, Verbicide was a full-color offset quarterly with a glossy cover, with free circulation in New York, Austin, Los Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco, and newsstand circulation in all 50 states and Canada.
In March 2009, the 25th and final print edition of Verbicide was released, and the magazine was relaunched online on August 1, 2009. Upon moving online, Heather Schofner became the features editor, and Erin Gambrill joined as the fiction editor.
Verbicide includes music reviews, interviews with musicians and authors, book and film reviews, and featured columns by Larry Livermore
Larry Livermore
Lawrence "Larry" Hayes , best known by the pseudonym Larry Livermore, is an American musician, record producer, and music journalist. He is best known as the co-founder of Lookout! Records.-Biography:...
, Mark Huddle, and Douglas Novielli. Past features have featured interviews with the likes of Chuck D
Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.- Early life :Ridenhour was born in Queens, New York...
, Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, comedian, publisher, actor, and radio DJ....
, Ian MacKaye
Ian MacKaye
Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and The Teen Idles, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well...
, Saul Williams
Saul Williams
Saul Stacey Williams is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam.-Biography:...
, The Gorillaz, The Donnas
The Donnas
The Donnas are an American all-female rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, The Runaways, AC/DC, Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Kiss. Rolling Stone has stated that "the Donnas offer a guileless take on adolescent alienation; they traffic in kicks, not...
, and the Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
. Verbicide has published fiction by authors including Raegan Butcher
Raegan Butcher
Raegan Butcher is an American poet and singer. He is known for his association with the anarchist collective CrimethInc., who published his first two books of poetry, Stone Hotel and Rusty String Quartet. According to a CrimethInc. biography, Butcher was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to...
, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Diane DiPrima, Christopher Staley, Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...
, John Fante
John Fante
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. He is perhaps best known for his work, Ask the Dust, a semi-autobiograpical novel about life in and around Los Angeles, California, which was the third in a series of four novels, published between 1938...
, Joe Meno
Joe Meno
Joe Meno is a novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago.-Biography:After attending Columbia College Chicago, Meno spent time working as a flower delivery truck driver and art therapy teacher at a juvenile detention center...
, and Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
.
Los Angeles zine Razorcake
Razorcake
Razorcake is a 501 non-profit organization that publishes the Razorcake fanzine, a DIY punk rock fanzine published bi-monthly out of Los Angeles, California...
described Verbicide as a "a good mag by an editor who’s fighting the good fight".