Music Archives

Christmas feels more like Christmas when Mannheim Steamroller is playing.

If Christmas means anything, Low seems to be saying, it has to begin by being honest about the heartache all around us.

The album Time Without Measure takes on activism with intimate, challenging lyrics in the style of Sufjan Stevens and The Mountain Goats.

In ‘Remember Us to Life,’ Regina Spektor encourages us to remember the beauty in the world and our capacity to give grace to others in the same way grace was given to us.

Leonard Cohen devoted his career to telling us that, in the midst of human experience, pain is rarely devoid of beauty and beauty is rarely devoid of pain.

Singing at the All Ages Karaoke Night at Danny’s on Douglas, I was given a glimpse of this kingdom where we are bound to each other and to God.

Okkervil River’s Away is a record of lead singer Will Sheff’s kenosis : his self-emptying.

Bon Iver’s latest album finds Justin Vernon continuing to explore questions of existence and otherness.

In The Human Condition, Jon Bellion invites the listener to connect with his lamentations while simultaneously partaking in his longing for something more.

What is that elusive quality that imbues certain pieces of music with a genuine sense of pain?

Have you ever felt like you’re hearing an old hymn for the very first time?

Ingrid Michaelson’s ‘Boys and Girls’ and ‘It Doesn’t Have To Make Sense’ intersect in the space between what love should be and what we’ve made it.

Blurryface, the new album from Twenty One Pilots, communicates our longing to be known by those around us and, more importantly, by our Maker.

Country star Miranda Lambert gives us insight into sexual freedom for women: does it mean behaving as badly as men?

As Chance and his hometown quietly take turns sharing their sides of the story of his maturation, we begin to wonder who really changed—Wendy or Pan?

Here’s what our writers are consuming this summer when they’re not writing.