The Off-Season might just be an “okay” album for some J. Cole fans’ standards; but if we take into account its purpose as a work of art, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to categorize it as great.
Most of us have some knowledge of the Woodstock festival. But why don’t we know about the Harlem Cultural Festival, which was held at the same time?
So now you had a nationwide craze over a genre of music that barely existed (having just broken off from Motown and R&B), based on a piece of long-form journalism that was entirely fictional and a movie made by people with no real connections to the original disco scene.
Leave it to a band from the city of bright lights and long odds to show us how to live out our points along history’s timeline.
These contributions are birthed from joy and lament, celebration and sadness, commemoration of the past and considerations of what can be in the future.
Until This Shakes Apart collects Five Iron Frenzy’s most dynamic, urgent set of songs to date.
Those who eschew a revisionist view of Scripture around the issue of sex will be viewed as the “do-badders” and no longer the “do-gooders.”
Our team highlights their favorite music and podcasts from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.
Perhaps it was inevitable that, back when I was looking forward to a summer of attending and reviewing performances of all nine symphonies, it was all about to crash and burn.
Goodness takes time, so why not live with hopeful ambiguity instead of bitter snap judgement?
As Mona Haydar makes clear, faith which worships human authority and depends on rules for other people is a form of godliness only, not the real thing.
Music like Ray LaMontagne’s can play a part in tuning our hearts to this holy grammar all around us.
The female experience in life very frequently feels like that of a queen on a chessboard, especially when we get into traditionally male-dominated spaces.
Springsteen’s Letter to You could only be written by someone who spent the better part of five decades trotting beside the mysterious practices of the Catholic Church
A brief survey of America’s flawed history reveals that during Reconstruction our government has attempted to position itself for greatness in terms of using its power to serve the lowliest in its caste system, formerly enslaved citizens.
We’re not, it turns out, a civilization of rock gods and their devotees; we’re all connected, and we all depend on each other.
