Steve Martin and Edie Brickell (Rounder, 2013) Comedy icon, bona fide movie star, best-selling novelist, and accomplished banjo player. If that’s the...
Music
Read U.S. Catholic articles on music and faith, exploring how song, prayer, and creativity deepen spiritual life and community.
Camera Obscura (4AD, 2013) Beauty is worth waiting for, as is joy. The Scottish band Camera Obscura’s magnificent album My Maudlin Career was released to...
Jim James (ATO Records, 2013) Kentucky rock outfit My Morning Jacket made its name in the early 2000s off its signature brew of country and psychedelic rock...
Local Natives (Frenchkiss Records, 2013) If Martin Mull is right and “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” then there...
Low (Sub Pop Records, 2013) The release of a new Low album often feels like an unexpected gift. Not that all of their albums are unqualified masterpieces, but...
Dropkick Murphys (Born and Bred, 2013) Notre Dame didn’t quite win the college football championship in January, but this new album from the Dropkick...
The Coup (Epitaph, 2012) First, a warning: The lyrics on this album feature the usual hip-hop profanity, and there is no edited version. For many that is...
Sing the Delta Iris DeMent (Flariella Records, 2012) At 51, Iris DeMent is no spring chicken, but her music can seem like a time capsule from someplace long...
Kendrick Lamar (Aftermath, 2012) A warning to our readers: This album uses explicit language standard in the hip-hop vernacular. On his major-label debut...
Mumford & Sons (Luna Park Records, 2011) Here’s the elevator pitch on Mumford & Sons: U2 meets Old Crow Medicine Show at Bruce...
