Music Dose

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

How many artists have created their own genres? Robert Sikoryak may stand among few, especially for genres within the comics form. He has an eloquently Continue Reading

The titular distance chronicled on Jess Cornelius’ solo debut album can be measured in a plethora of ways: geographical as someone born and raised in Continue Reading

The mid-to-late 1990s saw English guitar music surrender entirely to domesticity. For a remarkable spell, Britain had been an incubator of cutting edge outsiders who Continue Reading

People are strange. This is the lesson we learn from strangers. The English “strange” derives from the Old French estrange, which in turn derives from Continue Reading

“Down here in the bottom, there ain’t no room for me. I don’t wanna make no babies, I don’t need a man to save me,” Continue Reading

Pyramid is certainly a fitting title for the new Jaga Jazzist album. It’s beautifully structured and obviously crafted with meticulous care. The long-awaited follow-up to Continue Reading

When Watchmen premiered last fall, its opening sequence set during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 provided a harrowing entry point into the series’ tangled Continue Reading

There’s a strange beauty to Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards’ latest album, Total Freedom. She wistfully looks back at the people she’s known and loved, the Continue Reading

As age sets in, a lot of the thrill of new music is in hearing the rejuvenation and reinvention of tropes and approaches that one Continue Reading

You will hardly find a band more defined by the covers they play than the Devonns on their self-titled debut album. The Chicago quartet led Continue Reading

Auteur Publishing have followed up their Devil’s Advocates series of slim volumes on individual horror films with Constellations, an even slimmer set of volumes on Continue Reading

With everything going on in today’s fraught world, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture. Fortunately, there are scientists struggling on Continue Reading