Music Dose

The first notes of Afel Bocoum’s Lindé are soothing and subtle, earthy strings and percussion walking in step with the artist’s gentle voice in an Continue Reading

If we could agree that Nicholas Buccola’s The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Debate over Race in America Continue Reading

In the mid-’90s, Alan McGee was on a roll. As the boss of Creation Records, he was the Lord of the Britpop Empire, having signed Continue Reading

Austin Lucas releases Alive in the Hot Zone! on 30 October via Cornelius Chapel Records. The release will be available on vinyl, CD, and digital Continue Reading

Irish alt-pop singer-songwriter Rebekah Fitch possesses a powerful and moving voice filled with emotion and the ability to connect with listeners at a visceral level. Continue Reading

Hidden Beams’ Carlos Argon marries a variety of influences in his songs, ranging from the avant-garde to pop-rock and improvisatory sounds. Claiming musical inspiration that Continue Reading

“Where does Kate Bush come from? You can’t hear her influences”, said English rapper and actor Tricky for the 2014 BBC documentary The Kate Bush Continue Reading

When Brothertiger’s John Jagos takes a break, he means it. For the Ohio-born, New York-based master of emotional synthpop, his career has already been full Continue Reading

Excerpted from Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Jonathan M. Berman. (Footnotes omitted). Copyright © 2020 The MIT Press. Excerpted by permission of Continue Reading

Critics consider the Rolling Stones’ 1966 album Aftermath as one of the most important rock records. That was the Stones’ first “real” album rather than Continue Reading

Some music is just internal. It creates its own world, plays by its own rules, and speaks to itself only. Yet, sometimes this internal music Continue Reading

Scott Ayers once fronted the Lovemakers, recorded an album on Interscope with them, and scored a hit with “Prepare for the Fight”. Now, the talented Continue Reading

Leeds’ Eades are here to proclaim for those doubters in our midst that guitar rock is not dead. There’s still plenty of room for creativity Continue Reading

Denmark’s GOSS is a rising electropop artist with a penchant for creating anthemic earworms and a history working with Mura Masa. “Everybody’s Going” is the Continue Reading

BAERS are a new pop-rock band out of Germany that marry cabaret-esque vocals to funky bass, hook-filled hummable choruses, and a dash of Weimar flair. Continue Reading

Following his ‘Timberwolf‘ album, Samuel Tucker Young returns with Whiskey Burns. Written and recorded at the height of quarantine, Young captures feelings of despair as Continue Reading

Joey Molland’s latest LP is Be True to Yourself and arrives on 16 October via Omnivore Recordings. The album is a collaboration between Molland and Continue Reading

Jyoti’s (aka Georgia Anne Muldrow) Mama, You Can Bet! is a revelation — of time, of rhythm, of sound. It takes the free-ranging jazz sensibilities Continue Reading

No one could ever accuse Vancouver’s Yukon Blonde of remaining stuck in place, releasing the same album over and over again. Indeed, the band are Continue Reading

In 1934, the major Hollywood studios knuckled down to the self-censorship standards of the Motion Picture Production Code, an office subsidized by the studios themselves. Continue Reading