Music Dose

17th century England: King James II (Sam De Grasse) enjoys being entertained by his court jester, Barkilphedro (Brandon Hurst), who is a cruel and Machiavellian Continue Reading

When David Byrne, still reedy and diffident as a silver-haired 68-year-old, says to the audience at the beginning of American Utopia, “Thank you for leaving Continue Reading

Landowner’s second LP, Consultant, is a beautiful bundle of chewed-raw nerves, with intensely geometric post-punk motifs providing the razor to scrape back and forth over Continue Reading

We are currently living in unusual times. The only sane response is to get strange. The Band of Heathens understand this and have taken things Continue Reading

Music Maker Relief Foundation has announced a new album, Hanging Tree Guitars, out 25 September, which explores America’s history with racism and racial violence. It Continue Reading

“Quiet Journey” is the new single from Laraaji’s upcoming LP, Moon Piano, out 9 October via All Saints Records. The record is the second in Continue Reading

Guitarist David Lord’s newest LP is Forest Standards Vol. 2 and finds the guitarist teaming with the rhythm section of Jeff Parker (bass, Tortoise) and Continue Reading

It’s hardly by accident that David Lazar mentions legendary character actress Thelma Ritter within the first sentence of this wonderfully incisive, reflective collection of essays Continue Reading

Rett Madison – “Kerosene” Photo: Courtesy of the artist West Virginia’s Rett Madison possesses a powerful voice laden with emotional heft, and she deploys it Continue Reading

Wolf Parade’s debut album, Apologies to the Queen Mary, is an indie rock classic. It is a testament to how creative, vital, and exciting the Continue Reading

The first beats of “Ngavele Ngagaxela” are crisp and bare; the vocals atop them nimble and bold. Such straightforward musical bones are the foundation of Continue Reading

Godcaster’s debut album is a swirling, sloppy mess of guitars, drums, flutes, synths, and apparently whatever else the band had on hand in the Philadelphia Continue Reading

There are a number of ways to approach Sally Anne Morgan’s Thread. One could hear it as an LP influenced by 1970s-era fold-rock hybrids. Its Continue Reading

Chris Smither’s latest LP, More from the Levee, will be released on 2 October. Produced by David “Goody” Goodrich, the collection is material primarily culled Continue Reading

Sufjan Stevens has always been a man of many creative hats—electropop experimentalist, folky singer/songwriter confessionalist, and orchestral rock maestro, among others. So his music is Continue Reading

We in California are at the vanguard of things to come; climate change brings us years of record-breaking drought, waves of excessive heat and unprecedented Continue Reading

At one point on Blitzen Trapper’s tenth studio offering, Holy Smokes, Future Jokes, bandleader Eric Earley sings, “Let’s do the world a favor, yeah / Continue Reading

Lifetime of Comedy is the new release from the Parson Red Heads. The collection will be released on 13 November via Portland, Oregon’s Fluff and Continue Reading

Buoyancy (2010) is a powerful story about the plight of 14-year-old Chakra (Sarm Heng), who is sold into slavery and is trapped at sea, where Continue Reading

Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” sets a soundtrack to the unthinkable, telling of a crisis in the midst of childbirth, as told from a father-to-be’s Continue Reading