Music Dose

Halfway through Angel Deradoorian’s Find the Sun comes a loose, minimal drum-and-flute jam that goes on for just over nine minutes. Titled “The Illuminator”, it Continue Reading

Growing up, I knew Pluto as “The Ninth Planet”. It was smaller than the planets, erratic in its movements and its elliptical path. It was Continue Reading

My Morning Jacket fans always knew there was a batch of unreleased songs kicking around in the band’s vault. Indeed, during the recording of 2015’s Continue Reading

One of last year’s most powerful (and underrated) releases was Nafada, the latest album by Detroit-based electronic/industrial outfit Konqistador. Nafada is a remarkable release which Continue Reading

The title of Vigdis Hjorth’s new novel, Long Live the Post Horn!, is taken (exclamation point and all) from Soren Kierkegaard’s work, Repetition, in which Continue Reading

Southwest London’s the Motive concoct catchy, indie-pop earworms that possess breezy melodies, jangly guitars, and hooky riffs. They’ve already racked up more than 600,000 Spotify Continue Reading

“You are an unusual man, Mr. Asher,” the cop beside him said. “Crazy or not, whatever it is that has gone wrong with you, you Continue Reading

Australian alt-pop singer-songwriter, merci, mercy is only 19 years old, but she’s already creating pop anthems like “Fall Apart” that possess emotional honesty and a Continue Reading

The one-eyed dude abides. Well actually, John Goodman, playing bible salesman Big Dan Teague, doesn’t so much abide, as he assails. Breaking a massive branch Continue Reading

About a decade ago, three of us took advantage of MOMA’s free Fridays, wandering through some of the most amazing art that one could see Continue Reading

Coming off of ‘Jealous’ and ‘The Heat’, Khamari returns with his third single That Girl. Produced by Trackside, it’s led by a finger-picked guitar as Khamari Continue Reading

“Too Little Too Late” Maroon kicks off with one of the best power-pop songs the band ever wrote, “Too Little Too Late”. It has a Continue Reading

Excepted from Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest, edited by Terrion L. Williamson. Copyright © Belt Publishing. Excerpted by permission of Continue Reading

Tikyra Jackson, drummer and backing vocalist for 2020 Grammy nominee Southern Avenue, released her sensational, hook-laden debut single “No More Fear” earlier this year via Continue Reading

The title of Ian Wayne’s new album, Risking Illness, comes from a song near the end of the album. “Winter’s” – like the rest of Continue Reading

Addis Ababa-based quintet Qwanqwa’s initial plans for their third album, the succinctly titled Volume Three, went as awry as everything else this year. Recorded in Continue Reading

The all-male quartet Sea Girls’ debut album Open Up Your Head is a catchy, very listenable record full of mainstream pop-rock anthems in short supply Continue Reading

Little Claudia Huaiquimilla didn’t expect to be paraded class by class like a museum exhibit in her first national holidays at an all girls Catholic Continue Reading

Thaba is a collaboration between South Africa’s Khusi Seremane (singer-songwriter) and American Gabriel Cyr, a producer and musician. However, the project will sadly be a Continue Reading

Peter Parker/Spider-Man was first introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in Captain America: Civil War (Russo Brothers. 2016). In that film, he is recruited Continue Reading