Music Dose

“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

Amnesia Scanner is the Berlin-based Finnish duo of Ville Haimala, Martti Kalliala, and Oracle, the synthetic voice who is described as “the third, machinic ghost-member”. Continue Reading

“Give me a miracle, I just want out from this / I’ve done my share of helping with your defense,” HAIM sing on “Los Angeles”, Continue Reading

One of the most often-cited quotations of Karl Marx is a riff on the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel that all world-historical facts and personages appear twice, Continue Reading

Singer/guitarist Paul Spring and drummer Homer Steinweiss first met in 2005 on a Minnesota farm and soon began working on a long-distance folk project between Continue Reading

The first 10 seconds are iconic: an ashen ambiance, dirty Converse canvas high tops bouncing to the beat, white gym socks, sullen cheerleaders, a modest Continue Reading

Our Two Skins, the latest album from Sophie Payten – professionally known as Gordi – begins with a bit of catharsis. “Aeroplane Bathroom” was written Continue Reading

The Elephant 6-related group Nana Grizol have always been a thinking band. On their first few albums, 2008’s Love It Love It and 2010’s Ruth, Continue Reading

The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in reissues of deep, spiritual jazz recordings from late the 1960s and early 1970s, allowing Continue Reading

On her fourth studio album, 2016’s Tropix, São Paulo-based singer-songwriter Céu showed a more minimalist and sharply electronic side of herself, largely eschewing the acoustic Continue Reading

It’s tempting to imagine a modernist deck of playing cards, with each of the four women covered in Diana Souhami’s latest book heading up one Continue Reading

Corb Lund’s latest LP, Agricultural Tragic, releases today via New West Records. The latest single is a duet with Jaida Dreyer, “I Think You Oughta Continue Reading

The late, great Tony Wilson of Factory Records fame reckoned contemporary music revolutions occurred every 13 years: the Beatles’ first album was released in 1963; Continue Reading

Jealous is the debut single and first of five planned for release by Khamari, who initially built a following through covers recorded in his bedroom Continue Reading

“Words I Couldn’t Say” is the new single from South Yorkshire quartet Alvarez Kings. The pop-driven single demonstrates how the group has come to win Continue Reading

Finding the groove between in bittersweet lamentation, “No Ordinary Love” is often regarded as one of Sade’s greatest hits. Its intoxicating layers of textured sound Continue Reading