Music Dose

Lately I’ve been putting up signs along the freeway. Large pieces of cardboard, longer than I am tall, that were once boxes for bicycles or Continue Reading

Following Jane Blanchard’s 2018 EP ‘Enemy’ featuring the orchestrated drumming of Stefan Westner, the duo reunite for her third release, Still, Again. Through five tracks, Blanchard reflects Continue Reading

Unlike many stories about family histories and long-ago slights, Hirokazu Koreeda’s (Kore-eda) The Truth (La vérité) does not invest much time playing around with just Continue Reading

A pandemic can rearrange priorities. When the world was thrust into the COVID-19 pandemic, things suddenly looked and felt different. Our jobs, our schools, our Continue Reading

Ahead of their forthcoming EP, In Earnest has shared the second single titled Come Upstairs. Inspired by band members and real-life couple Sarah and Thomas’ experience Continue Reading

20. 7 Seconds – “Fuck Your Amerika” 7 Seconds were a band of posicore crewsters that cruised back and forth across America in a beat-up Continue Reading

Before even listening to this I suspected I would hate it solely because of their name, but Merry Christmas’ Meredith Bites The Earth is pretty Continue Reading

It’s been over a year since Tugboat Captain released ‘Be Strong, Smoke Less’, but the London-based outfit now returns with No Plans (For This Year).  Continue Reading

Vilde is the musical project of Thomas Savage which he started in 2016. It’s since been his goal to release an album every year for Continue Reading

Ambrose Akinmusire – on the tender spot of every calloused moment [Blue Note] Ambrose Akinmusire seems particularly mature as an artist and particularly within the Continue Reading

Deeper Graves is the new solo project of Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves, ex-Nachtmystium) and the debut Deeper Graves album, Open Roads, arrives 3 July via Continue Reading

1. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” It’s conventional music industry practice for record labels trying to break an up-and-coming band to release what’s termed a “base-building” Continue Reading

Like so many, I’ve burned my fair share of quarantine hours sitting in front of my television, offsetting those bleak news reports about the coronavirus Continue Reading

Alpha Cat (Elizabeth McCullough) releases Live at Vox Pop, Brooklyn, NY – July 21, 2005 3 July as a $2 download with all proceeds being Continue Reading

What is it about tragic, doomed romances that makes them such irresistible reading? Especially in this day and age? We know, at long last, that Continue Reading

“Plague! We’re in the middle of a fucking plague! And you behave like this!” – Larry Kramer The action in Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Continue Reading

Klinger: I’ve said in the past that artists’ big statements tend to garner the most attention. And here we are, Mendelsohn, covering our fifth double Continue Reading

A well-established rock star isn’t supposed to be doing these kinds of things at the age of 62. Yet here we are. Paul Weller, founding Continue Reading

In a 2013 interview with John Hind of The Guardian, as Jessie Ware was making the publicity rounds in support of her Mercury-nominated debut, the Continue Reading

The other day, needing something to break up the rotation of my T-shirt wardrobe, I reached for a souvenir I hadn’t worn in years. It’s Continue Reading