Music Dose

In 1988, right in the thick of what has since been canonized as hip-hop’s golden age, the trailblazing rap outfit Public Enemy issued one of Continue Reading

Peals are a band that somewhat confounds expectations while producing results that are equal parts surprising and soothing. The duo, consisting of bassists William Cashion Continue Reading

Jean Renoir is a poet of murder. That’s not how he’s typically described. We’re supposed to talk about his films’ humanism, lyricism and generosity, the Continue Reading

By 1970, John Lennon struggled to break free from his former Fab Four image and transform himself into a more cynical, hard-edged solo artist. John Continue Reading

Death, the latest release from the formidable Portland, Oregon instrumental group Coastlands, arrives on 9 October via Translation Loss in the United States and Dunk! Continue Reading

Medium Rarities is Mastodon’s first odds and ends compilation. With a career spanning two decades, it seems the band would have a lot of interesting Continue Reading

When the world learned that President Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 in the early hours of Friday morning, his supporters reacted with dismay. The Continue Reading

The title of Staten Island-based instrumental funk group Budos Band’s upcoming 15th-anniversary album, Long in the Tooth, is a perhaps obvious but no less satisfying Continue Reading

After hearing BATTS‘ debut concept album, ‘The Grand Tour’, Philadelphia-based This & That Tapes owner Joseph Carlough contacted BATTS to work on a collaboration. Dancing On Continue Reading

There’s something about deep, bass-heavy, musical thwack. It doesn’t matter how much one knows about house and all its micro-shoots, or whether they can speak Continue Reading

The 2000s are a hard decade to pin down, but there does seem to be some certainty about the primacy of Radiohead’s Kid A in Continue Reading

Brent Cobb is one mixed up guy. He proclaims the importance of taking a stand on “Shut Up and Sing” and says he’s not worried Continue Reading

1. “Everything in Its Right Place” I still remember where I first listened to Kid A. There aren’t many albums I can say that about, but Continue Reading

If OK Computer was Sgt. Peppers, Kid A and Amnesiac were Radiohead’s The White Album. The works are as wonderfully schizophrenic as the Beatles self-titled Continue Reading

It’s been ten years since Jónsi released a solo album. His 2010 debut, Go!, pointed the way as the experimental pioneer charted a course for Continue Reading

“There are too many guns in America. Let your voice be your gun,” says singer-songwriter David Poe of his new single, “Gun for a Mouth”. Continue Reading

Have you ever seen the paintings of English Romantic painter William Turner? He would turn a churning sea into a maelstrom of colors, the London’s Continue Reading

Jim White’s latest LP, Misfit’s Jubilee, arrives on 30 October via Fluff & Gravy Records and features many of White’s hallmarks. Meditations on the American Continue Reading

Publishing academic books about the problems in the academy has become a flourishing, self-perpetuating field in recent years. There’s no shortage of texts speculating on Continue Reading

Abortion is under threat again, there’s a sex offender in the Oval Office, and countless studies reveal the glaring underrepresentation of women in the North Continue Reading