Music Dose

It feels like several lifetimes ago that I was able to see live music. In reality, it’s only been a little over four months. But Continue Reading

Luke Temple’s second album as Art Feynman, titled Half Price at 3:30, is grounded by the same qualities that made 2017’s Blast Off Through the Continue Reading

Specializing in the kind of thrillers that explore the interstitial spaces that are moral dilemmas, Hugh Fleetwood has made a career out of consigning characters Continue Reading

Let’s get straight to it – I’m a fan of DMA’S. I’m a fan of their anthemic builds, their aching vocals, and you know, their Continue Reading

Margo Price’s admiration for Stevie Nicks is well-known. She and Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real have covered the classic Nicks/Tom Petty collaboration “Stop Continue Reading

The sounds that Hungarian musician Gábor Lázár can pull out of state-of-the-art synths and programming are often fascinating and can result in a highly entertaining Continue Reading

Willie Nelson completed a trio of mortality-focused albums with last year’s Grammy-winning Ride Me Back Home. These records focused on Nelson’s collaborative songwriting with Buddy Continue Reading

A Brand-New Shade of Blue is the new release from Chris Stamey and the Fellow Travelers. Omnivore Recordings release the digital album on 17 July. Continue Reading

The joyfully bombastic quartet WiiRMZ hail from the same city that defined (and arguably invented) post-rock in the 1990s with bands such as Slint and Continue Reading

I’m always intrigued when I see two authors listed on a graphic memoir. I know what that usually means for a graphic novel: the first Continue Reading

The mascara running down the fabulous face of singer-songwriter Aimee Proal might best represent what she and her fellow members in Los Angeles-based alternative pop-rock Continue Reading

Why are 12-year-olds running around singing about bastards and whores? And grown people paying up to $2k for tickets to see men in wigs sing Continue Reading

Contemporary culture finds itself caught between two antagonistic poles: a fascination with nostalgia and an obsession with the new. Art, music, and literature are at Continue Reading

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight’s second novel, Hex, is a portrait of ennui. The character Nell Barbar is a former doctoral student in botany from Columbia University. Continue Reading

Fuller is the vision of Los Angeles-based musician, J.P. Welsh. The musician’s new release EP, Crush Me, will arrive on 25 September. In the meantime, Continue Reading

The Bobby Lees’ new record Skin Suit was produced by punk legend Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion and will be released 17 July via Continue Reading

The Way We Love is the latest album from the Bacon Brothers. Available 17 July, the record offers up examples of the duo’s often tender, Continue Reading

Habit of My Heart from Braden Lam is Lam’s fairy tale ending. It all began when he was celebrating his home-recorded album ‘Driftwood People’ at Continue Reading

In Sepedi, one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, “keleketla” is a phrase that refers to a response, often one given to a storyteller’s traditional Continue Reading

“I often get asked about touring and playing live, and although I have traveled to many countries around the world in the past to do Continue Reading