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Music Dose
'Avengers: Endgame' Culminates 2010's Pop Culture Phenomenon
After years of licencing comic book properties to Hollywood studios, Marvel Entertainment launched Marvel Studios in 2005. Marvel Studios developed the properties to which they Continue Reading
Alanis Morissette's 'Such Pretty Forks in the Road' Is a Quest for Validation
It’s acutely problematic to require Alanis Morissette to recreate the music of Jagged Little Pill. To consistently return her to a 25-year bygone standpoint prevents Continue Reading
Graphic Novel 'Cuisine Chinoise' Is a Feast for the Eyes and the Mind
There are few books of which it can be said they’re worth buying for the art alone. Zao Dao’s Cuisine Chinoise is one of them. Continue Reading
How Hawkwind's First Voyage Helped Spearhead Space Rock 50 Years Ago
If space rock’s essence can be distilled into a single moment, it would be Hawkwind’s 1972 tour to promote their third LP, Doremi Fasol Latido. Continue Reading
Jerry Leger Teams with Moby Grape's Don Stevenson for "Halfway 'Til Gone" (premiere)
Singer-songwriter Jerry Leger has teamed with Moby Grape’s Don Stevenson for the new single, “Halfway ‘Til Gone”, which arrives on digital and streaming platforms 6 Continue Reading
Titan to Tachyons' Experimental Heaviness on Full Display via "Earth, And Squidless" (premiere)
Titan to Tachyons features guitarist Sally Gates(ex-Orbweaver, ex-Gigan), backed by the powerhouse rhythm section of Kenny Grohowski (Secret Chiefs 3, Imperial Triumphant, Brand X) and Continue Reading
Soul Blues' Sugaray Rayford Delivers a "Homemade Disaster" (premiere + Q&A)
Sugaray Rayford delivers his latest single, “Homemade Disaster” on 7 August. The song finds the Arizona-based vocalist in fine form. His Muddy Waters-crossed with-Otis Redding Continue Reading
Maestro Gamin and Aeks' Latest EP Delivers LA Hip-Hop Cool (premiere + interview)
Having worked under the radar for the last 12 years of his career may not have done much for Maestro Gamin’s profile, but it has Continue Reading
In Amy Seimetz's 'She Dies Tomorrow', Death Is Neither Delusion Nor Denial
Amy Seimetz’s sophomore feature, She Dies Tomorrow (2019) leaves little to the imagination. Its premise is as simple as its title – a woman, Amy Continue Reading
Vistas' 'Everything Changes in the End' Is Catchy and Fun Guitar Rock
Vistas are a trio hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, consisting of vocalist Prentice Robertson, guitarist Dylan Rush, and bassist Jamie Law. It’s always interesting when a Continue Reading
The Chad Taylor Trio Get Funky and Fiery on 'The Daily Biological'
Sometimes it’s the little things—the small changes to routine that free you up to feel or do something fresh. In the case of Chad Taylor’s Continue Reading
Between the Buried and Me's Baby Pictures Star in 'The Silent Circus'
Back in May 2020, Craft Recordings issued a remastered edition of Between the Buried and Me’s 2002 debut album. That gave longtime fans a chance Continue Reading
Hip-Hop's Raashan Ahmad Talks About His Place in 'The Sun'
An unknown entity in many hip-hop quarters (despite his prolificacy), Raashan Ahmad has been game in trying all sorts of odds and ends to get Continue Reading
Old Man Gloom Mourns Loss on 'Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning' and 'Seminar IX: Darkness of Being'
Aaron Turner has been a staple of the Boston metal and hardcore scene throughout the 1990s and early 2000s as a musician and entrepreneur. He Continue Reading
Datura4 Travel Blues-Rock Roads on 'West Coast Highway Cosmic'
“The desert is a spiritual place and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.” These words are from Land’s Edge: A Coastal Memoir, a Continue Reading
Jazz Trombonist Nick Finzer Creates a 'Cast of Characters'
Are we in the midst of a trombone renaissance in creative music? Young and not-so-young voices on the instrument suggest so—with recordings from Ryan Keberle Continue Reading
Unwed Sailor's Johnathon Ford Discusses Their New Album and 20 Years of Music
Look Alive, the latest release from Oklahoma instrumental rock outfit Unwed Sailor, finds the veteran band in fine form more than 20 years into their Continue Reading
Mike Mentz Looks to Adventure in "Ain't That the Life" (premiere + interview)
Mike Mentz has worked his way around the world time and again to garner inspiration for his songwriting, right down to the point where he’s Continue Reading
John Lewis, C.T. Vivian, and Their Fellow Freedom Riders Are Celebrated in 'Breach of Peace'
It is tempting to think America, and the world, lost something precious on 17 July 2020, with the passing of Rep. John Lewis and Rev. Continue Reading