Music Dose

Excerpted from The Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition catalog, ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, courtesy of The Continue Reading

Europe – “The Final Countdown” (Sony, 1986) What better way to start the countdown than with “The Final Countdown”? Originally envisioned as the opening music for Continue Reading

15. “Face Up” – Low-Life (1985) Bernard Sumner has claimed he never quite grew comfortable in the role of frontman, and nowhere is that uneasiness more gloriously Continue Reading

“Your book is brilliant, darling. Fucking gorgeous. I don’t know how you did it” says Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg) to his wife, the writer of Continue Reading

Seattle-based outfit Fretland continues to add the fabric of their music to the long line of Americana as they prepare to release their sophomore album, Continue Reading

Yo La Tengo are full of surprises, aren’t they? Hot on the heels of summer’s We Have Amnesia Sometimes EP, which consisted of five ambient Continue Reading

At least one central idea of the new jazz of the 21st century is the flat-out rejection of the neo-traditional jazz purism represented by Wynton Continue Reading

If you’ve ever had the experience where an artist’s statement ends up being more tantalizing than the work it describes, Tristan Perich’s Drift Multiply flips Continue Reading

In the first part of our series spotlighting music videos in the 1980s, we took a look at some of the more unsung clips from Continue Reading

Excerpted from Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav (footnotes omitted). Copyright 2020 Verso Books. Used with permission of the Verso Books. No Continue Reading

From the circus sideshow to the examination room at the London Hospital to the society page’s headlines, Joseph Merrick—known popularly as the Elephant Man—lived his Continue Reading

In 1969, the Stooges were a truth serum, forcing hippiedom to belch up the reality that flowers and hope had become just another guise for Continue Reading

Very little is known about SAULT. The group may be a trio, and they are much more about “show” than “tell”. The band revealed the Continue Reading

To call Lloyd Miller a tireless, relentless musicologist is quite an understatement. Although often labeled a jazz musician, Miller’s artistic pursuits stretch way beyond the Continue Reading

The Clash – “This Is Radio Clash” (1981, Columbia) The Clash released one of the most iconic videos of its time, the straight-ahead performance clip for Continue Reading

When it comes to the rather expansive catalog of Tom Waits, there tend to be two flagship albums in the running for the title of Continue Reading

French-American harp songstress Naomi Greene returns with Over The Hills. Inspired by Greene’s grandmothers passing, Greene pictures her grandmother addressing her loved ones as she departs Continue Reading

Then and now, the mighty Led Zeppelin towers imposingly as one of rock’s elite groups. The source of at minimum four must-own LPs, dozens of Continue Reading

Powys 1999, Stats’ second album, and second album in two years, features ten songs that always feel like they’re gliding on a dance-rock groove, even Continue Reading