You can’t help but wonder why. What is alt-rock god Ryan Adams doing covering Taylor Swift’s zeitgeist of an album, 1989? Is it a joke? Is the rocker taking...
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The release of Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free was as much of a mainstream media event as one can expect in this age of audience fragmentation. The...
Surf Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment (Self-released, 2015) Much of the buzz about Surf, the indie debut from musical collective The Social...
Love and Mercy Directed by Bill Pohlad (River Road Entertainment/Battle Mountain Films, 2015) Brian Wilson was a gifted yet troubled songwriter. In Love and...
Bob Dylan is an old man now. But even when he was young he was suspicious of “youth culture.” In 1967, while his audience plunged into Vietnam protests and...
Christian music tends to fall into one of two categories: either truly awful or not quite so terrible. But rather than musicians making Christian music, maybe...
Matt Maher Saints and Sinners (Essential, 2015) Get your hands and hearts ready, Christian music fans. Matt Maher’s latest album, Saints and Sinners...
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World The Decemberists (Capitol, 2015) There’s something quaint about the Decemberists’ lead singer, Colin...
Meet the many different portrayals of Jesus It’s not always easy for Catholics to develop a relationship with Jesus, as some try to mold the Son of God...
Cracker (429 Records, 2014) When we think “California,” two things probably come to mind: Hollywood glitz and Silicon Valley billions. But Berkeley...
