Music Dose

Fran Lebowitz is an exceptionally gifted user of words who admits she is only motivated to leave her bookish isolation and open her big mouth Continue Reading

With the exception of his final years of deteriorating health, it would seem far-fetched to describe Elvis Presley in any of his professional incarnations as Continue Reading

I’ll be honest: the genre of sports memoir is a little, er, out of my league. The closest I’ve previously come to reading something sports-related Continue Reading

Following ‘Statistic Vandals’, Rare monk returns with another single off their forthcoming sophomore album, ‘Never Really Over’. On Goodbye, the band veers more into pop territory with Continue Reading

The title of Steve McQueen’s five-part series, Small Axe (BBC in the UK, Amazon Prime in the US), is a powerful, political homonym. Formally, each Continue Reading

Jack Name’s past work was exceptionally epic and wild. On Name’s first two albums, 2014’s Light Snow and 2015’s Weird Moons, songs were long, pitch-shifted, Continue Reading

The Creative Crisis of COVID For musicians, the pandemic and consequent closing of performance venues has been a crisis. In the new century, nearly every Continue Reading

Psychobilly inhabits a space where some of rock’s oldest genres—rockabilly, garage, surf, country, and blues—cross-pollinate with punk rock. Despite looking back to look forward, this Continue Reading

“They Can’t Understand Me/I’m Talking Hieroglyphics” Playboi Carti has run quite a fascinating trajectory. He rose to prominence as the beloved young upstart affiliated with Continue Reading

The television series Hoarders is, for many, the first encounter with the consequences of being unable to let go of one’s material possessions. The series Continue Reading

George C. Wolfe’s direction of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, like Denzel Washington’s direction of 2016’s Fences, adheres to the theatricality of August Wilson’s script, propelled Continue Reading

Following last month’s ‘2019’, NYC-based duo Dog Trainer share Dumb Paranoia off their forthcoming album ‘Scrolling to feel better…part one’. Written and recorded while in quarantine, Dumb Paranoia captures Continue Reading

Atmosfear is a collaboration between Cody Bowers (songwriter, Mammoth Indigo) and Joey Cook (Post Modern Jukebox, American Idol). Originally written by Bowers and recorded in New Continue Reading

You won’t catch Martin Amis standing still, mucking about, or idling around. Amis, the British novelist and essayist about and for whom there is always Continue Reading

Multitalented artist Aicha Dosso found a perfect formula for creating timeless music. Her song “Bien,” a beautiful mixture of French Cabaret music and New York Continue Reading

Toronto-born, St. Johns-based multidisciplinary Winnie Churchill follows up his debut album ‘I’ with ‘Us’ where he deftly expresses his vulnerability and reflects on his identity. Continue Reading

From the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, Hayatheus (hi-ah-theus) and YVHIKV (yuh-hey-guh) have been putting out tracks as T H R O N E for Continue Reading

“The reason American art is so good and holds one’s attention is that it is built on the underlying psychosis that results from truly fending Continue Reading

Tulsa-born, Chicago/LA-based multidisciplinary Chronicle kicks off the year with a bang by dropping a new album titled Water The Houseplants. Written and recorded between acting gigs, Water Continue Reading