March 6, 2020• Album Reviews, Music
Of all the young Americana bands offering big choruses and group harmonies, Dustbowl Revival has them beat by a mile. ...
January 31, 2020• Album Reviews, Music
Hotspot is a solid album that, maddeningly, feels like a slight disappointment only because of how impossibly high the Pet Shop Boys have...
October 2, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Hide Your Ghost, the sophomore album from singer-songwriter Sawyer Fredericks, sheds the high gloss major label treatment, and plays closer...
September 13, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Moon is chiming echo-laden guitar, post rock bass, propulsive drumming, shifting time signatures, and haunting, ethereal vocals. Formed in...
September 7, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Frozen Flowers Curse The Day is the latest release from pioneering avant-guitarist Robert Poss, a founding member of the legendary...
September 5, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
The Imperial Sound’s blithe synthesis of 21st-century irony and bright, unselfconscious AM-radio pop is both brave and unique. This,...
July 18, 2018• Album Reviews, Music, Popdose Exclusives, Video Premieres
This is a rare and wonderful treat for us – and you. Not only do you have a review here for the brand-new album from the...
July 12, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Many of Bailey’s ‘80s-era peers have been trying to write songs this good as far back as 1984, and here he is, 34 years later, besting...
June 27, 2018• Album Reviews, Music, New Artists
This is the debut album from Philadelphia-based sextet, The Naked Sun, a band who began their quest for “honest rock” in 2011;...
June 15, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
The idea of an orchestral album by Midge Ure isn’t a question of when, but rather why it took this long for it to happen....
June 13, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Once again, historian/author/film producer and Memphian Robert Gordon delivers a book about the music of his hometown; a musical spectrum...
June 1, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Give David Myhr's Lucky Day a chance and it will reward you in return....
May 25, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
The new record from the Norwegian composer Kaada is a beautiful thing, immense in scope yet startlingly intimate. But, while it plays on a...
May 22, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Frog Eyes’ frontman Carey Mercer has said Violet Psalms – the band’s goodbye record, out late last week on Paper Bag – was written...
May 14, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Another new, upcoming young voice, Danielle Cormier, 21, is a singer-songwriter who she credits her love for the arts from seeing her first...
May 8, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
From the early notes of “Failed Celestial Creatures” – the meditative, 20-minute-long title track to the unanticipated debut...
May 7, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
This new album from Jodee Lewis, Buzzard’s Bluff is a cathartic release from deep within the Missouri Ozarks. It draws inspiration from...
May 4, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
As pig-fuck goes, this is some of the best. For those just tuning in, pig-fuck is the unfortunately titled genre of explosive post-punk...
May 1, 2018• Album Reviews, Music, New Artists
Accord, New York’s Tulula! has been stomping around Rip Van Winkle’s dreamland since 2006. The acid-cowboy quintet of Jason Broome...
April 26, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
I know it’s utterly blasphemous to suggest in underground circles, but my first point of entry when listening to Dylan Carlson’s new...
Grouper’s new LP – Grid of Points, out tomorrow via Kranky – is no Ruins, but its sparse pairing of multifaceted, ghostly voices with...
April 24, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
The Claudettes fuse Chicago piano blues with the full-throttle energy of rockabilly and punk and the sultriness of ’60’s soul to...
April 23, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
From the opening notes of singer/songwriter/guitarist Arkansas Dave’s debut album, you’re first thinking “am I listening...
If you've ever wanted to know what Wanda Jackson duking it out with Shirley Bassey in an alley while Rosanne Cash, Sharon Jones and Amy...
April 19, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Just wow. The new self-titled LP from Reno’s Rob Ford Explorer, out earlier this month, is a potent gem, a heady amalgamation of jazz...
As Saleeha, the Australian-born, Vancouver-based Max Buchanan makes meditative, slowly unfurling soundscapes that, surprisingly enough, do...
April 18, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Ugh. The new Melvins record, I am sad to report, dear reader, is a bit of a trainwreck. It’s not that Pinkus Abortion Technician, out...
April 16, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
A worthwhile history lesson: Wreckless Eric is Mr. Eric Goulden. His recording career began in 1977 with the enduring “Whole Wide...
April 10, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
Well, turns out climate change – for those rational people who agree with the science behind it – might not be all bad, after all. Big...
March 28, 2018• Album Reviews, Music
This is really good. I mean REALLY GOOD. This second album from The Shelleye Valauskas Experience, History Of Panic, which is...
