At a White House poetry jam event in 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda took the stage in front of Michelle and Barack and briefly introduced his then current project...
Music
Divers Joanna Newsom (Drag City, 2015) In Grand Rapids, Michigan there is a record store that is, to borrow the language of my younger nieces, total...
Pale Horses mewithoutyou (Run for Cover Records, 2015) mewithoutYou’s newest album is brass and bizarre—and biblical. The progressive...
Beat the Champ The Mountain Goats (Merge Records, 2015) You’re either down with wrestling as entertainment or you’re not. The recent death...
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...
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...
