On an exotic vacation our son took with my brother and sister-in-law, all travelers brought a playlist of five songs that said something about them. Fallen not...
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Revolution Come… Revolution Go Gov’t Mule (Fantasy Records, 2017). Gov’t Mule started recording this album on election night in November 2016. According to the...
All the Beauty in this Whole Life Brother Ali (Rhymesayers, 2017) You’d be hard pressed to find an article about Brother Ali that fails to mention his unique...
“When did everybody else get so old?” asks Jennifer Grant in her new book of the same title (Herald Press), a memoir that explores the physical, emotional, and...
Pure Comedy Father John Misty (Sub Pop, 2017) Joshua Tillman is a prolific indie folk/rock musician with eight studio albums under his belt. But it’s...
Binta Niambi Brown has a resume that could make your head spin. She’s a former corporate lawyer turned arts entrepreneur. She’s a classically trained...
The day after my grandmother Helen died, I needed my GPS to drive routes that I should have known easily. I struggled to find items on my list at the grocery...
Putting aside, for a moment, the election of a reality TV star as president of the United States, history may ultimately judge that the most significant...
Sudanese American rapper Oddisee inhabits a delicate space in the star-obsessed rap world—bigger than underground, but not yet a household name. Still...
Back in the fall of 2012, Justin Vernon told Minnesota Public Radio that Bon Iver was perhaps nearing its end. Vernon had been on tour for a year at that point...
