Music Dose

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

Guitarist and beatmaker duo Adam Jackson and Oskar Rice fuse their love of Dilla and Bon Iver into lavender. Their deliciously soulful Spotify playlist riding Continue Reading

Kudos to those artists who have managed to get some work done despite the political strife and pandemic lockdowns rocking the US this year. Nat Continue Reading

There’s no mistaking where the political loyalties of the makers behind All In: The Fight for Democracy lie. The documentary is ostensibly about voter suppression, Continue Reading

Tobin Sprout is most widely known as a former member of the incessantly present indie rock act Guided By Voices. He’s been in and out Continue Reading

The Last Shall Be First: the JCR Records Story, Volume 1 is a compilation of lost Memphis gospel music from the 1970s and is out Continue Reading

The Cradle, the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paco Cathcart (Big Neck Police, Eyes of Love, Shimmer), has curated a thoughtfully multifarious album. His Continue Reading

Lars and the Magic Mountain is a new act formed by the Netherlands’ Lars Kroon of the band St. Tropez. The title of the new Continue Reading

Otis Junior is an alternative R&B singer from Louisville, Kentucky with a silky, mellifluous voice that recalls some of the sweetest soul music of the Continue Reading

Australian First Nations singer-songwriter GLVES creates dense, deep, and darkish electropop that mesmerizes with its blend of electronics and native sounds. Her second single, “Heal Continue Reading

Claire Denis’ masterwork of cinematic poetry Beau travail is not a traditional anti-imperialist film, but it is one of the most elemental. Set in the Continue Reading

Bassmaster Brian Bromberg has remixed and remastered his 2012 album Bromberg Plays Hendrix to mark the half-century passing of guitar master Jimi Hendrix. One of Continue Reading

Another World is the sophomore release from Chicago’s the Flat Five. The LP arrives 13 November on CD, vinyl, digital download and via streaming platforms Continue Reading

Big Little Lions are the folk-pop duo of Helen Austin and Paul Otten, who live in Canada and the US and manage to collaborate despite Continue Reading

Alexander Wren’s precocious coming-up is well-documented, with the history of a wedding singer mother, a Hank Williams-loving father, and an older brother who worked in Continue Reading

If you think you’re an overachiever, think again – Daniel Romano’s got us all beat. So far this year, Romano has released nine full-length albums, Continue Reading

As he prepared to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March 1965 on what was to become known as ‘Bloody Sunday’, the late civil Continue Reading

Since Shirley Collins’ return to music in 2016 with Lodestar, she’s been exceptionally productive. After the release of a film and soundtrack, The Ballad of Continue Reading

Already familiar amongst these pages, Maxwell Byrne’s (Golden Vessel) latest project finds him teaming up with fellow Aussie artists Kalem Woo (Rei So La) and Continue Reading

While millions claim to be fans of Bruce Springsteen, only an extra-dedicated few have taken the plunge and written an entire book devoted to analyzing Continue Reading