Music Dose

Arlo Parks, neé Anaïs Oluywatoyin Estelle Marinho, has just released her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams. It’s an emotionally wrenching journey through relationship drama set Continue Reading

Joik is a long-practiced musical tradition in Sápmi, a largely subarctic region spanning Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. It stems from the indigenous Sámi people’s Continue Reading

One of the bright, albeit brief, marvels to have flashed upon the ’80s with a singular approach to rock music, JoBoxers filled a niche of Continue Reading

​10. “Andy’s Chest” (Transformer, 1972) Lou Reed helped define a subgenre with this seminal glam rock record and yielded some of the most memorable hits of Continue Reading

From the start, it’s abundantly clear that the central mission of Siân Heder’s CODA—one of the opening films of this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival—is Continue Reading

Given the way documentaries by and about celebrities are so often treated as a dumping ground for famous, inexperienced debutantes to get their first taste Continue Reading

The Santa Monica-based multi-instrumentalist Alex Siegel kicks off his year with an ode to a friend on Sangsuree. Inspired by unfortunate events, Siegel mixes dream pop Continue Reading

When “Bipp” by SOPHIE first appeared on the scene around 2013, it was controversial for some pretty specious reasons. Certain segments of the dance community, Continue Reading

Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Alex Schiff aka Blue Canopy, formerly of Modern Rivals, has announced the follow up to his 2020 debut EP ‘Mild Anxiety’. Motovun is the first Continue Reading

Mouchette (1967), one of French master Robert Bresson’s many essential films, begins and ends with conspicuous absences. The opening credits roll over an image of Continue Reading

Before 2004, few people would classify Green Day’s music as particularly sophisticated, intellectual, or thematically mature. Sure, “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” with its Continue Reading

10. “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” (The Band, 1969) An anthem for the working class, this song tells the woebegone tale of a poor country farmer, Continue Reading

German indie rock band the Notwist have not released an album of new material since 2015. Although they have been around for more than 20 Continue Reading

Not everyone who works in Hollywood is famous, but some actors who work consistently across the decades achieve a level of face or voice recognition Continue Reading

German indie rock band the Notwist have not released an album of new material since 2015. Although they have been around for more than 20 Continue Reading

James Oscar Smith, popularly known as Jimmy Smith, died in 2005 and is buried just outside Philadelphia under a headstone that proclaims him to be Continue Reading

Singer-songwriter Eve Adams weaves dark folk-noir tales with her spellbinding jazz-folk like last year’s ‘Candy Colored Doom’ or her 2017 debut ‘In Hell’ which featured Continue Reading

The latest documentary from filmmaker Mary Wharton (Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound, 2009) is a love letter to the 39th president of the United Continue Reading

From Ryan Lott’s earliest work under the Son Lux moniker — several years before touring members Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang joined him full time Continue Reading

Sometimes it feels good to have one’s head crunched in the morning. Divide and Dissolve do a great job of releasing the demons—not the ones Continue Reading