Music Dose

The Pretenders’ 11th studio album, Hate For Sale, is a return to their musical base. Rejecting the overly adorned styling of their 2016 release, Alone, Continue Reading

In Jamaica reggae came after ska; conversely, when hybridizing with punk in late 1970s Britain this historical succession was reversed. The main appeal of reggae Continue Reading

It can be easy to ignore the many ways in which nature and culture are ultimately inextricable, humans, animals, and other aspects of the environment Continue Reading

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

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

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

“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

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