Music Dose

Yes, the band created the template for heavy metal and thrash, but even now, it’s instructive to acknowledge just how unique Black Sabbath were when Continue Reading

New to the Paramount line is one of the few Robert Altman films that could be called delightful, although lots of people, as the saying Continue Reading

Currently based in Brooklyn, Ginger Taylor wrote her latest single Some Fates while living in Toronto’s Dufferin Grove and attending the University of Toronto. Inspired Continue Reading

In the 1960s, there was a band that changed the way popular music was made forever. They challenged conventional ideas regarding harmony, form, and instrumentation Continue Reading

Elizabeth Bear’s latest novel is titled Machine, but the term could easily refer to its author. Her literary output is astonishing: 32 novels in 15 Continue Reading

The situation of pianist Joe Castro seems like it came out of one of those low-budget black and white film noir movies about jazz musicians Continue Reading

Few musicians have succeeded in manipulating and shaping atmosphere as well as Coil. The duo founded by musical (and life) partners John Balance and Peter Continue Reading

Kelsey Waldon said she feels a special responsibility as a Southerner to improve the human rights of people living in America. She has cited racial Continue Reading

The synthpads come in, slowly and calmly. You are at peace. It sounds like a Windham Hill record, even. Soon, you are greeted by a Continue Reading

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

“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

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

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

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

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