Music Dose

Following singles ‘Statistic Vandals’ and ‘Goodbye’, Portland-based indie rock outfit Rare Monk shares their new album, Never Really Over. Written in the years prior to Continue Reading

It was only with Aretha Franklin’s death in 2018 that the American public — prompted to listen to her songs that we hadn’t heard in Continue Reading

The debut EP from the Pablo Alvarez project Good Bison is titled Scattered Storms, but a more accurate name for it might be Not-So-Scattered Sunshine. Continue Reading

In Scandinavian and Celtic mythology, the selkie is presented as a seal-like being that could shed its skin and adopt human form. One finds similar Continue Reading

In filmmaker Thomas Bezucha’s Let Him Go (2020), adapted from Larry Watson’s novel, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Kevin Costner) and his wife Margaret (Diane Lane), Continue Reading

Django Django have built on the momentum of their previous records with the brilliant Glowing in the Dark, a fantastic whirl of the band’s sonic Continue Reading

10. Lou Reed/Metallica – Lulu (2011) ​It’s tough putting this album above other career suicide albums that have more history on their side (see Hole’s Continue Reading

Edgar Wright’s bulky new rockumentary The Sparks Brothers—premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival—exposes a band not at the vanguard of pop experimentation at any Continue Reading

Ebba and Michel of Wy return to announce their third album, ‘Marriage’, and share the opening single Come Here. Recorded during quarantine, the duo shift down Continue Reading

I’ve been pretty obsessed with Skullcrusher (Helen Ballentine) over the last few months and her latest offering continues that flame. On the dreamy Song For Continue Reading

​Director Chad Hartigan’s fourth feature Little Fish (2020), adapted by Mattson Tomlin from a short story by Aja Gabel, is a science-fiction romance that frighteningly Continue Reading

Pearl Charles spends much of her second album Magic Mirror thinking about who she is, refining her introspection even as she finds ways to reach Continue Reading

Black Country, Road Road’s debut, For the First Time, is a frenetic culture clash. The influences that made this album sprawl across the globe and Continue Reading

Age and time have irrevocably shaped Martin Scorsese’s crime films. The veteran director has become synonymous with his trademark explosive, violent, high-energy gangster films like Continue Reading

Discovering Elvis Costello was probably the sole highlight of my strange and turbulent sophomore year of high school. It probably would have been runner-up had Continue Reading

Guitarist Nels Cline has released his third album for jazz’s Cadillac label, Blue Note. In a sense, though, it is his first Nels Cline recording Continue Reading

​We all know that the Clash (1976-1983) wear the halo of eternal coolness. History has been very kind to them. What is the big deal, Continue Reading

Bobcat Rob & The Nightly Howl might be my spirit animal if Popcorn Lung is anything to go by, minus the whole popcorn lung part. Laidback Continue Reading

In 1979, King Hu made two epics at once and in the same locations in South Korea. One was the three-hour Legend of the Mountain Continue Reading

Caroline Shaw is a composer whose approach redefines the term “multifaceted”. The North Carolina native received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her Continue Reading