BUY all their records. they're all incredible. i can listen to them all over and over again. check out A.A Bondy's American Hearts as well.

I've never heard any unsolicited information about these guys. I saw them on Letterman one night and thought they rocked and started pokin' around the net.

Though I like they're rockin' songs (esp. Way Out West & White Girls), it's the singers syrupy voice and back guitar of the slow songs that are like a drug.

I'm tellin' you, if you're in a mellow altered mood, program songs 5,6,7,9, and 12, and you'll see why 5*****.

I bought this record the day it came out. I played it a few times and was unimpressed. 6 months passed and I decided to revolve the disc a few more times. Voila! I got it! I have since listened to it about a thousand more times. I can't get over how great this band is and how little exposure they've received.
Too bad a lot of people are missing out on this... and too bad they probably won't be putting out any more records. Get it, spin it, spin it again - be patient.

Hard rock? Alt-country? Indie? It's hard to tell but this sounds to me like an ordinary promo debut rock act. The guitars seem particularly unexceptional, 80s hair maybe with few creative ideas and the vocals/lyrics invoke bold cliches (why not another numbered nervous breakdown?) and mention Jesus Christ so many times I'm beginning to suspect this is Christian rock disguised as cool.

Verbena's "La Musica Negra" is a breathe of fresh air, an almost perfect rock album released at a time when rock music really doesn't get made much anymore (not enough room for it amongst all the watered down punk and rap, kiddie porn songstresses, pretty boy bands, manufactured teen angst, and other corporate music monstrosities..).

This band deserves a better fate than it will probably get. I will do my best to get people to hear this, and then insist that THEY BUY THEIR OWN COPY. It makes me sick to see these CD's already going for ($)... (Yeah, what a bargain, but has anyone noticed that music really sucks these days since great artists like this don't get rewarded anymore).....
(And as a sidenote, I just realized that the title of the fourth song, "It's Allright, It's OK, Jesus Told Me So", is probably in reference to a line from a film made in 1999 entitled "American Movie").