Music Dose

The music of Jonnine Standish is not exactly sunny. As a member of the duo HTRK (pronounced “Hate Rock”), she and Nigel Yang have made Continue Reading

It’s a story that almost seems like a publicist dreamt it up, but it really happened. In the fall of 1968, a 16-year-old jazz fanatic Continue Reading

Arcade Fire’s Will Butler calls his new album Generations because the songs look back at where his personal and familial heritage connect and how that Continue Reading

It’s been over two decades since the Deftones broke free of their status as nu-metal/rap-rock avatars with the addition of experimental DJ/keyboardist Frank Delgado in Continue Reading

PopMatters has been following Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray series The Golden Age of Exploitation, a collection of films made outside of Hollywood’s studio system by independent Continue Reading

Introduction Since our earliest days, we humans have been cataloguers of the natural world. Once, our survival depended entirely on remembering what was safe and Continue Reading

WEIRDO – INSOMNIAC IDEAS [EP] British electropop producer WEIRDO has captured serious BBC radio play with his emotive and tuneful alternative pop, and Annie Mac has Continue Reading

Toronto-based Canadian singer-songwriter Ashley Sienna is back with yet another purely catchy gem, a single titled “My Phone Died,” the second release off her upcoming Continue Reading

Simón Mejía believes music is a universal language, but his musical universe includes singers, instrumentalists, electronics, birds, insects, as well as rocks and the water Continue Reading

“And Introducing Audrey Hepburn”. With that credit, William Wyler’s Roman Holiday set off a special bombshell in the world of Hollywood stardom, one that announced Continue Reading

In 2004, as I hobbled toward my frumpy 40s, I became enamored of a band that, at the time, appealed primarily to angsty teens: Bright Continue Reading

“I tell myself there is no happy ending. All the pieces do not fit together perfectly. Things are ragged and messy. We are torn apart Continue Reading

Bamboo Smoke – “Hold Me Briefly” Photo: Courtesy of the artist South London’s Bamboo Smoke create a gorgeous form of electro that bridges pop and Continue Reading

Héctor Lavoe’s 1976 “Periódico de Ayer” (Yesterday’s Newspaper) is a bitter but danceable salsa classic about lost love. But like many of his finest songs, Continue Reading

Formed in 1977, Manchester’s A Certain Ratio were part of the post-punk class of 1979, with their jagged debut single, “All Night Party”, an early Continue Reading

Growing up on the east coast of Canada in the ’90s, a vital part of any teenaged musical education was MuchMusic, that endearing and chilled Continue Reading

The Flaming Lips’ frontman Wayne Coyne describes the backstory of American Head like this. He and the band were driving from a gig in Austin Continue Reading

Multidisciplinary artist Devi Mambouka’s musical incarnation, Masma Dream World’s debut album, Play at Night, releases on 25 September via Northern Spy. Influenced by the likes Continue Reading

During a recent session at the Thriving Roots AmericanaFest event, the multi-Grammy award-winning producer John Leventhal and singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz discussed the problem of “demoitis”. Continue Reading

A global pandemic, populist authoritarianism, fake news, police brutality, terrorism, widespread socio-political discontent. There’s been a good reason to feel a certain existential dread over Continue Reading