Music Dose

Giacomo Sartori is adept at creating worlds that are difficult to characterize. In his prior novel, I Am God (2019), he created a world in Continue Reading

The Court Jester (1956), a just-about-perfect example of a Danny Kaye vehicle, arrives on Blu-ray for the first time in the Paramount Presents line. It’s Continue Reading

Trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis: love him or resent him. But Marsalis is one of the most prolific instrumentalists of the last 40 years. A Continue Reading

By the time he released The Route to the Harmonium in 2019, Scottish folksinger James Yorkston had long transcended the humble troubadour spirit of his Continue Reading

The conventional wisdom on Martin Gore’s role in Depeche Mode is well-established. Gore is the primary songwriter, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and guitar player. Continue Reading

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

​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

​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