Signs of Life Neil Gaiman & the FourPlay String Quartet (Instrumental Recordings, 2023) Beloved author, graphic novelist, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman adds...
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Memento Mori Depeche Mode (Columbia, 2023) It’s hard to believe that the English band Depeche Mode has been together for 43 years. A Gen X adolescence not...
Workin’ on a World Iris DeMent (Flariella, 2023) Iris DeMent once expressed that writing a song can be a form of prayer. But, as her critically acclaimed...
SOS SZA (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA, 2023) SOS, SZA’s 23-track, Billboard-charting sophomore album, begins with the beeping of a morse code distress signal...
Poor Pretender Long Mama (Self-released, 2022) Though delayed by the pandemic, Long Mama’s debut album, Poor Pretender, feels right on time. Its homespun blend...
Old Time Folks Lee Bains and The Glory Fires (Don Giovanni Records, 2022) The day this fourth album from our greatest left-wing Southern punk-rock band...
The Car Arctic Monkeys (Domino, 2022) The Arctic Monkeys’ latest album—their seventh LP and first in close to five years—shows the continuing metamorphosis of...
The world—especially the church—would be a better place if Christians who are heterosexual and are not trans listened to a sermon about sexual sin from the...
Author Wendell Berry famously lives in Henry County, Kentucky, which went for presidential nominee Donald Trump by a 46 percent margin in 2020. Still, Berry...
Midnights By Taylor Swift (Republic Records, 2022) Standing astride the pop firmament, probably more relevant than she has ever been, in Midnights, Taylor...