Music Dose

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

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

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

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

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

The most distinctive aspect of Canadian singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle’s latest release, Monarch Season, is its stillness. Castle sings and plays guitar and piano quietly on Continue Reading