Music Dose

There is a moment in director Bong Joon-ho’s celebrated film Parasite (2019), a pivotal moment in my estimation, that brings to mind verses 5:43-45 from Continue Reading

A film’s opening scene, when done well, may reveal a great deal about the feature’s main character. The establishing credit sequence to Hooper (1978) performs Continue Reading

Set in the 1980s, Sean Durkin’s sophomore feature The Nest (2020), centres on Rory (Jude Law), an entrepreneur and former commodities broker who returns to Continue Reading

When I saw Juan Felipe Herrera perform his verse in Atlanta a few years back, I was struck by the musicality of his delivery. Herrera, Continue Reading

Flicker Alley presents a DVD/Blu-ray combo of the Austrian Film Archive’s restoration of H.K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent film The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Continue Reading

2020 has been generous with many things we’d just as soon have missed. One bright spot, however, is the virtual avalanche, the cataract, the tsunami Continue Reading

10. The Ocean Collective – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic [Metal Blade] One of the pillars of modern German progressive metal, the Ocean Collective’s album-by-album Continue Reading

The music of Darren Cunningham—aka Actress—has always placed a special emphasis on texture. It’s full of clicks, glitches, static-crackle, and synthesizers so corroded they sound Continue Reading

Blood From the Soul – DSM-5 (Deathwish Inc.) There is no argument in how pioneering a role Shane Embury has played in developing extreme metal. Continue Reading

There is a frequently quoted passage from Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History in which he riffs on Paul Klee’s 1920 artwork Angelus Continue Reading

This past summer saw the release of Laveda’s debut album ‘What Happens After’ including a track by track rundown from Ali and Jacob. They’ve now Continue Reading

Barcelona-based duo Pale Moon released their debut EP ‘Dust of Days’ last year – including a stellar video for ‘Exile’ which we spoke about here. Continue Reading

10.     Chouk Bwa and the Ångströmers – Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe) In Haiti, mizik rasin, or roots music, serves important roles in many culturally engaged Continue Reading

10. Chouk Bwa and the Ångströmers – Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe) In Haiti, mizik rasin, or roots music, serves important roles in many culturally engaged Continue Reading

Losing Sharon Jones to cancer in 2016 felt particularly unfair. Jones didn’t breakthrough until she was in her mid-40s when Dap Dippin’ with Sharon Jones Continue Reading

It’s hard to imagine why Chris Stapleton would feel the need to start over just now. Five years ago, his debut solo album Traveller put Continue Reading

By the late 1980s, the Fall were in as stable a place as their confrontational frontman, lyricist, and only constant member Mark E. Smith would Continue Reading

Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series has gained a stellar reputation over the years for meticulously and lovingly analyzing classic and important albums. Almost every self-respecting rock Continue Reading

An out-of-time transmission from the late 1990s, when auteurs were fully embracing genre and pre-millennium jitters was tossing old artistic certainties out the window, Jim Continue Reading