“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
Music Dose
Speed the Plough Members Team with Mayssa Jallad for "Rush Hour" (premiere)
“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 Delivers Stunning Preface to New EP via "Sober/Without" (premiere)
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
Songwriter Shelly Peiken Revisits "Bitch" for '2.0' Album (premiere)
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 Honor Their Favorite Songs With "Oh No" (premiere)
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
Viserra Combine Guitar Heroics and Female Vocals on 'Siren Star'
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
Arlo McKinley's Confessional Country/Folk Is Superb on 'Die Midwestern'
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
The Inescapable Violence in Netflix's I'm No Longer Here (Ya no estoy aqui)
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
Great Peacock Stares Down Mortality With "High Wind" (premiere + interview)
Great Peacock’s Forever Worse Better, out 9 October, stands as the Nashville trio’s definitive statement. It’s a deeply personal record that reflects the struggle between Continue Reading
Kristin Hersh Discusses Her Gutsy New Throwing Muses Album
Maybe the secret to making great songs is to stop worrying about making great songs. Kristin Hersh, the 1990s alternative icon of Throwing Muses, guitar Continue Reading
Laraaji Returns to His First Instrument for 'Sun Piano'
Reissues, re-appraisals, belated recognition, musician/fan curations, and re-contextualizations have all done a tremendous service for pioneering experimental, ambient, and drone artists over the last decade Continue Reading
Jim O'Rourke's Experimental 'Shutting Down Here' Is Big on Technique
Jim O’Rourke fired off “Cede” 20- or 25-odd years ago as a salvo in the battles within his alien landscape of a musical mind. Shutting Continue Reading
King Buzzo Continues His Reign with 'Gift of Sacrifice'
Ipecac Recordings advanced two singles off King Buzzo’s much-anticipated second solo LP, Gift of Sacrifice: “I’m Glad I Could Help Out” and “Science in Modern Continue Reading
Whitney Take a Master Class on 'Candid'
Historically, covers albums are a sign of trouble. They’re the products of contractual obligations, creative stasis, or cash-grabbing labels. In the grand scheme of artists’ Continue Reading
The Redemption of Elton John's 'Blue Moves'
“Blue Moves is an Elton John album. It is not his best.” Thus begins the latest book in Bloomsbury Academic’s 33 1/3 series, each volume Continue Reading
Buridan's Ass and the Problem of Free Will in John Sturges' 'The Great Escape'
Based loosely on Paul Brickhill’s 1950 first-hand account, The Great Escape (1963), directed by John Sturges, carefully recounts the story of a mass escape of Continue Reading
The 10 Best Fleetwood Mac Solo Albums
Danny Kirwan – Second Chapter (1975) This album is the second chapter in Kirwan’s professional life, following his firing from Fleetwood Mac in 1972. He is a Continue Reading
'History Gets Ahead of the Story' for Jazz's Cosgrove, Medeski, and Lederer
Drummer Jeff Cosgrove lives in the rural environs west of Washington, DC, making reasonably frequent appearances at DC clubs or in nearer-by Frederick, Maryland. But Continue Reading
Planningtorock Is Queering Sound, Challenging Binaries, and Making Infectious Dance Music
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, UK-born, Berlin-based artist Planningtorock – otherwise known as Jam Rostron – was on the remote Estonian island of Hiiumaa, visiting Continue Reading
South African Folk Master Vusi Mahlasela Honors Home on 'Shebeen Queen'
It’s tempting to compare the shebeens of apartheid-era South Africa to speakeasies elsewhere. Legal now, shebeens offered specific freedoms in a time of horrific oppression, Continue Reading