Music Dose

15. Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing [1998] Placebo have never really been taken as a serious band. Probably because of lead singer Brian Molko’s ridiculously Continue Reading

The word “artlessly” has several meanings. It’s usually used as an adverb suggesting something authentic and direct. The implication is that there is no attempt Continue Reading

Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, frustrated that there was no antonym for the word “catastrophe”, invented the term “eucatastrophe”, something that would describe Continue Reading

When the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro caught coronavirus in July 2020, it seemed like a matter of time until Donald Trump followed. Sure enough, three Continue Reading

This Heat, the innovative trio of Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, and Gareth Williams, were not short of humor. Naming themselves after a 1976 UK heatwave, Continue Reading

Nigerian author Cyprian Ekwensi’s (1921-2007) debut, People of the City was shepherded into the literary spotlight by novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). Achebe chose Ekwensi’s novel Continue Reading

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the maxim is even more accurate for graphic novels. This surprised me when I Continue Reading

10. Piranha 3D [2010] While he also scored big with the update of Wes Craven’s cannibals in the desert effort The Hills Have Eyes, French Continue Reading

Bharat Nalluri’s film, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, covers a glamorous 24-hours in London on the precipice of WWII. Although the film is deemed Continue Reading

“Hold On” by Wilson Phillips (1990) The last remnant of ’80s pop music, “Hold On” not only topped the charts in 1990, but it was Continue Reading

“[There have been] few other cases in the history of civilized peoples where human suffering has been viewed with such peculiar indifference.” – W.E.B. Du Continue Reading

After releasing his first two LPs on Houndstooth, Joe Seaton’s latest album, Every Mouth Teeth Missing, is out via Incienso Records. If you know anything Continue Reading

Last year, the unique, brilliant hip-hop trio Clipping released their third full-length album, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, notable in that it showed them Continue Reading

In the sprawling rainforest of electronica that opens up the album, Aalok Bala (short for Balachandran) finds something definitively human: connection. The LA-based Chilean artist Continue Reading

Magick Mountain are the kind of band that sounds like they would be a lot more fun to play in than to listen to. The Continue Reading

We may safely declare that people who care about American made-for-TV movies consider the Golden Age to be the 1970s. As the networks discovered the Continue Reading

Following last year’s stellar video for ‘Don’t Worry’ and follow up ‘Oxidate’, Brother. returns with Honey. With a mix of psychedelic and punk influences, the quartet captures Continue Reading

“Mr. De Shields is a tireless performer. His stylized, rhythmic patter keeps the momentum of the performance building, and his singing, in a voice that Continue Reading

Lydia Loveless doesn’t wilt. The past few years have been at least as fun for her as they have been for the rest of us, Continue Reading

A few years ago, Kevin Morby bought a house. It didn’t come out of nowhere. Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox had handed down some wisdom he’d received Continue Reading