Music Dose

15. Love Fame Tragedy – Wherever I Go, I Want To Leave [Good Soldier] Matthew “Murph” Murphy of the Wombats somehow finds time to eat and sleep, Continue Reading

Anyone familiar with PopMatters knows that, but for our playful moments (well, even within our playful moments) we put great emphasis on the matters of Continue Reading

December 6, 2015: Fonzi Thornton is standing onstage at the Kennedy Center. The Queen of Soul holds court at the piano. It’s the ultimate manifestation Continue Reading

Since discovering Fox Academy earlier this year, I’ve obsessively listened to them. September saw the release of their latest lo-fi offering, ‘Rabbit’, and now Michael Continue Reading

20. Black Curse – Endless Wound (Sepulchral Voice) In 2015 members of acclaimed acts Primitive Man, Khemmis, and Blood Incantation discussed their love for the Continue Reading

We tend to think of beauty and harshness, sensitivity and anger as opposites. While it’s understandable that language hews towards a dichotomous model for sorting Continue Reading

There are some who confer beatitude – or, at the very least, that quality that the Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges called everness – simply Continue Reading

American female rapper 5’2 continues to surprise the Hip Hop industry as her talent seems to know no bounds on her new 7-track EP Pages Continue Reading

When Wilma Ås isn’t singing backup vocals for the band Children of the Sün, she’s releasing music for her solo project Wilma Nea. Earlier this Continue Reading

15. DJ Cactuar – Bolsonaro Obaluaê [Independent] We naturally take comfort in the familiar. Likewise, we often turn away from forms and concepts we cannot easily identify. Continue Reading

15. DJ Cactuar – Bolsonaro Obaluaê [Independent] We naturally take comfort in the familiar. Likewise, we often turn away from forms and concepts we cannot easily identify. Continue Reading

Sometimes, a book aims such a blow to the guts I have to put it down and come back to it after a few deep Continue Reading

“The idea was to create electronic music with the ethos and trappings of what Gram Parsons called ‘Cosmic American music.’” That’s how experimental musician Jordan Continue Reading

The first time we meet the character of William Shakespeare in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, he is striking a deal with Morpheus, the eponymous Continue Reading

20. The Sweater Set – Fly on the Wall [Independent] Recorded with a live audience of 50 lucky fans—something that would be nearly unthinkable at the time Continue Reading

“…we’re fighting slogans with slogans. We’re trying to unify and you can’t do that by being convoluted and murky. This isn’t an essay in the Continue Reading

Frank Zappa was many things: a counter-cultural icon of the 1960s, a shredding guitar virtuoso, a creator of bracingly cynical and satirical rock music, a Continue Reading

Although it’s only this year released in the US through Kino Lorber, Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew (Hai shang chuan qi) was commissioned in Continue Reading