Music Dose

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

When Strange Days released in the US in the fall of 1995, the internet and the idea of digital connectivity was new enough that forward-thinking Continue Reading

Given the shadowy avant-gardism of their self-titled debut a year earlier, it may come as a bit of a surprise to find how bright This Continue Reading

Ariana Grande’s Positions is a perfect pop album in a very conservative sense of the term. The songs average under three minutes. Innovation is on Continue Reading

Following his previous pop releases – two French tracks, “Mission Commando” and “Dangereuse”, Yann Brassard is now back with a brand new release in English, Continue Reading

The weird and wonderful Jim White is as much a performance artist as he is a musician. He deftly combines different pop styles in juxtaposition Continue Reading

“I know I’m better off solo / Shouldn’t have to be this hard,” sings LÉON on her second album Apart, the follow-up to her 2019 Continue Reading

The French New Wave finally made its way to Africa in the late 1960s, thanks in part to the French postcolonial presence on the African Continue Reading

20. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People [Arts & Crafts/Paper Bag] The diffidently-sung “Anthem for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” will reach you, even if Continue Reading

A standard-issue modern music gripe, subject of a ton of clickbait articles, is, “why are there no protest songs anymore?” The answers vary, but the Continue Reading

Adulkt Life are a new punk band helmed by music veterans. Vocalist Chris Rowley fulfilled that same role in the early 1990s riot grrl act Continue Reading

That Nothing’s new album would be called The Great Dismal is probably the least surprising thing that has happened all year. The title seems almost Continue Reading

Solemnity rings through the breathtakingly wordless introduction to “The Call”, the new a cappella single taken from Moira Smiley and VOCO’s upcoming album In Our Continue Reading

The two first met at a Roots show and in no time did they begin exchanging beats and rhymes. MC Mattic and producer Johnny Madwreck Continue Reading

While it’s easy to get caught up in debates about aesthetic purity when it comes to punk music, it’s important to remember that, in the Continue Reading

40. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning [Saddle Creek] Released in 2005 alongside the stylistically opposed Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, I’m Wide Awake, Continue Reading

Excerpted from When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold (footnotes omitted). Copyright 2020 by the Board of Continue Reading

Elliott Skinner, formerly of vocal trio Thirdstory who has worked with Chance the Rapper, Jon Batiste and others, is set to embark on a solo Continue Reading

60. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker [Bloodshot] The dawn of the 21st century found Ryan Adams venturing into venues armed with little more than an acoustic guitar, a Continue Reading

John Darnielle is a man of many interests. As the creative force behind indie mainstay the Mountain Goats, Darnielle has used his music to explore Continue Reading