Music Dose

Black Magnet – Hallucination Scene (20 Buck Spin) It was back in the 1980s when the precision and weight of industrial music started to infect Continue Reading

As a musician, Matt Berninger achieved something more difficult than it appears: he’s created a distinct musical identity for himself while at the same time Continue Reading

Maybe it’s because of his use of futuristic themes or the fact that he named his band the Extraterrestrials, but Jeremy Ivey’s latest record Waiting Continue Reading

Politics of Attraction, the full-length debut from Louisville power trio Bad Wires, is a Frankenstein’s monster of a rock record. The group, technically adept but Continue Reading

The cultural art-as-facts taking place on “deserted islands” are something akin to taking the human animal outside his habitat, to be examined in conditions far Continue Reading

After a series of serious injuries, Hadi ended his football career and seems to know exactly what he wants to sound like through his music. Continue Reading

Vince Clarke is a songwriter and composer whose four-decade-long contribution to synthpop has defined the genre. Forming Depeche Mode in 1980 with schoolmate Andy Fletcher, Continue Reading

Much of RUI HO’s music has been centered around the complexity of personal journeys forward through space and life. On earlier EPs Becoming Is an Continue Reading

Craft Recordings’ vinyl reissue series of Between the Buried and Me’s early discography continues apace with the band’s third album, 2005’s Alaska. This album started Continue Reading

I clearly remember the first time I saw Low Cut Connie perform. I felt the way Jon Landau must have when he wrote, “I saw Continue Reading

Rachel Brooke’s The Loneliness in Me releases on 23 October, and serves as powerful reminder of the Michigan-based musician’s marriage of classic country music with Continue Reading

Los Angeles rock band Swerve’s latest track, “Escape” arrives ahead of a full-length album that will be released next year. Led by Gregory Mahdesian (vocals Continue Reading

Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) tracks the journey of painter Carlo Levi (Gian Maria Volonté), who has been made a Continue Reading

Rivers are thick with pollution and forests leveled by fire, an autocratic dictator ignores the council of others, refugees are turned away at borders with Continue Reading

Singer-songwriter-father Elliott Park‘s forthcoming family-focused record Songs With My Daughters, out digitally 16 October, is an imaginative and lovely collection. Park recruited his daughters Anna Continue Reading

The world of pop culture is awash in Vikings these days. From streaming television shows to manga, those nefarious Norse are back in vogue. But Continue Reading

When I first heard Max Clarke, I was convinced he had Everly blood. The Brooklyn singer-songwriter, better known by his moniker Cut Worms, sings in Continue Reading

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, John Lennon began to actively endorse a wide variety of progressive and radical political causes. He championed the Continue Reading

Listening to Future Islands is like stepping into a time machine. Their sound is awash in clean synths, pulsing, dancefloor-ready bass lines, and understated beats Continue Reading

Trying to put the Doors in context of their times reveals the paradoxes of their music and career. On the one hand, the band were Continue Reading