Music Dose

Not much has changed for Kurt Wagner since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nashville native spent most of his time in the house, Continue Reading

At the start of the century, in the UK at least, Travis were everywhere. Their brand of earnest, plangent indie rock was a soothing balm Continue Reading

On the 28 March 1977, while This Heat were recording their first radio session with producer Tony Wilson and engineer Dave Dade, the Sex Pistols Continue Reading

“Rockit” by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of pop. But besides reaching the Continue Reading

At one time in the distant-seeming past, DOC NYC was one of the highlights of any self-respecting nonfiction movie geek’s calendar. Sure, American Film Institute Continue Reading

I can’t help but marvel that one of the United States’ most prominent unofficial film ambassadors had once broken his directorial chops working for B Continue Reading

If you were happening to wonder who the breakup songs are about on Little Mix’s new studio album, they aren’t so much about a romance. Continue Reading

In Minsk, the bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky — founder of the KGB — still stands. On the Island of Tears, the deaths of 771 Belarusian Continue Reading

Electropop has many iterations, but possibly the most over-obsessed and tediously written about is the type that evokes the FM pop of the 1980s. Its Continue Reading

Compared to the relatively capacious archival revelations of Can, a band with roughly comparable working practices, the posthumous pickings from This Heat have been cautiously Continue Reading

If you’ve spent money on merchandise promoting your favorite sports team, logged hours discussing the summer blockbuster remake of a movie you and several other Continue Reading

London’s Tunng are the best band you still haven’t listened to, as since their 2003 inception, this collective have continued to build and folk and Continue Reading

These days it seems that all you hear in the news is about how America is divided. Understandably many see nothing but doom at the Continue Reading

DIY lo-fi rockers Symbol Soup are set to drop their forthcoming album ‘Cattle Grid’ and offers a lighter take from previous releases. This collection of Continue Reading

Kylie Minogue is well aware of the irony of releasing a dance-pop album called Disco during a year when going out to clubs isn’t a Continue Reading

‘I hate God.’ As far as opening lines for a novel, that of Jenny Hval’s Girls Against God (translated by Marjam Idriss) certainly sounds explicit. Continue Reading

Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment (Metal Blade) Birmingham’s Anaal Nathrakh play an extreme take on extreme metal. Everything is pushed beyond the point of breaking in Continue Reading

Deceit, despite its jokey title, is not a happy album. I recall my father saying to me once that he couldn’t express how it felt Continue Reading

If one wants to write a book about a rock ‘n’ roll band, there are only two ways to do it: give new information that Continue Reading

There isn’t a logical explanation for the persistence—or, really, the swelling—of interest in music of the Grateful Dead in 2020. The Dead’s visionary and spiritual Continue Reading