Music Dose

Coincidence has played a major role in Michael Rother’s musical life. While working at a mental hospital in Düsseldorf in the early 1970s, a colleague Continue Reading

Concomitant with the explosive global popularity of manga and its permeating global markets and languages, have been efforts to plumb the genre’s archives for forgotten Continue Reading

If anyone doubts the urgency of the subject matter in Joe Sacco’s latest work, his career trajectory ought to underscore its importance. The pioneer comics Continue Reading

A global pandemic and a lock down forcing us to re-examine and reconfigure our parameters of normality would seem tailor-made for analysis via the interrogative Continue Reading

Thana Alexa – Ona [Independent] New Vocal Art Thana Alexa was born in New York, but her family moved back to Croatia when she was Continue Reading

On more than one moment in Erik Nelson’s Apocalypse ’45 viewers will likely find themselves gaping in awe at the splendor of what you are Continue Reading

It’s hard not to see Jason Molina as a tragic figure. His music – under his own name or as part of the projects Songs: Continue Reading

Ernest Greene’s new Washed Out album is about a breakup, which might seem strange for such an orthodox chillwave album. But when you think about Continue Reading

Phil Elverum is both a pariah and a hero. This position is pretty typical in the pariah/hero-rich world indie rock. Still, Elverum’s circumstance is unique, Continue Reading

Michael McArthur releases his second EP of 2020, How to Fall in Love today. The EP consists of acoustic versions of some tracks first heard Continue Reading

“Blue Coast”, the new single from the Brevet, finds the collective contemplating the move from to the land of opportunity, California, and how hopes and Continue Reading

Bobby Rush once more demonstrates his astonishing blues prowess on the upcoming album, Rawer Than Raw, due out on 28 August via Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers. Continue Reading

Los Angeles-based Viserra’s debut album, Siren Star, is a tight six songs in just over 30 minutes. The hard rock band pull influences from a Continue Reading

Impressing the legendary John Prine with your songwriting is a little bit like having Picasso say you’re a pretty good artist. Shortly before he passed Continue Reading

One of the most enduringly popular songs by Lisandro Meza, the King of Cumbia, is “Lejanía (Distance)”. Over his accordion, he sings of “waiting for Continue Reading

Pianist and still-practicing psychiatrist Denny Zeitlin doesn’t live in New York, the jazz capital of the world, but it is an event when he makes Continue Reading

We’ve all been there, haven’t we? You emerge sometime in the morning after, bleary-eyed, furry-tongued, and with an aching, but indistinct feeling that you did Continue Reading

Nashville-based artist Natalie Schlabs not only writes what she knows but conveys the meaning of an emotionally charged experience with such tender-hearted expression that it’s Continue Reading

As with any new decade, 1970 ushered in both the promise of fresh prospects and the continuity of the same misfortunes. For roots rockers the Continue Reading

“I miss everything.” So says Jo March at a central moment in Greta Gerwig’s film adaptation of Little Women. Having just been asked if she Continue Reading