Music Dose

Erasure to the rescue once more. Stuck in lockdown, barricaded in our homes, fearful of contact with strangers, every expedition to the grocery or drug Continue Reading

There is a visible, conscious process of decision-making, maybe even a brand of self-reflection, behind the constructions on Mourning Jewelry, the sophomore outing by post-classical Continue Reading

Louisiana’s Sweet Crude released their latest album, Officiel-Artificiel earlier this year and now offer a video for “Impuissance”, which accentuates the groups devotion to Louisiana 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

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

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

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

“Rush Hour (An Inadvertent Meditation for a Friend)” is a collaboration between Speed the Plough’s John and Toni Baumgartner featuring Beirut based vocalist Mayssa Jallad Continue Reading

Leila Sunier releases her new debut EP, Where Everything Is Perfect, on 9 October. Drawing on influences such as Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius, Bright Eyes, Continue Reading

Shelly Peiken is no stranger to a good song. She’s co-written two chart-toppers for Christina Aguilera (“What a Girl Wants”, “Come on Over Baby”) and Continue Reading

Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts latest single, “Oh, No” arrives on 14 August ahead of the band’s full-length release Nowhere to Go But Everywhere, Continue Reading