Music Dose

In the summer of 2011 the Syrian civil war broke out. After struggling for four years to hold on in the capital of Damascus where Continue Reading

Prince’s 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls, which introduced his band the New Power Generation, is by some counts his second best-selling album period, after Purple Continue Reading

In the year 2016, battle lines were drawn. I’m not just referring to on-screen, where heroes fought other heroes in Captain America: Civil War (Russo Continue Reading

Steve Wynn has the patience of a saint. When he formed the Dream Syndicate in 1981, he was up against it, as all the hip Continue Reading

At age 13, I encountered my first bootleg: a murky cassette of a Nirvana performance from 1988, seemingly recorded from a toilet stall in the Continue Reading

One of the first new tracks I shared this year was JW Francis’ ‘Gold‘ which also found him gracing the cover of my Must Hear Continue Reading

Bassist and composer Charles Mingus used to be a figure of controversy for ten different reasons, some political, some personal, and—though this all seems silly Continue Reading

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

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

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