Music Archives

In CAPC Jr., significant children in the lives of our writers pass on their own unique insights into some of their favorite cultural artifacts.

Raul is about family, compassion, and patience. It’s about looking across the broken landscape of our world and considering how we may use the cross of Christ to bridge the prejudicial gaps of humanity.

Our worship should teach us to long for more than our individual salvation, but to long for the redemption of the whole world.

Following the Carters’ lead, the Church must include Christians of color in our origin stories and current cultural framework.

Can we continue to find beauty and truth in art created by human beings who’ve done terrible things, and if so, how?

Both A Star Is Born and Black Panther: The Album accomplished feats of carrying the emotions of their respective films beyond the movie screen.

Underoath and Emery both reveal what doubt, addiction, and perhaps even abandonment could feel like.

Courageous artists remind us that earthly beauty is always damaged.

With lush arrangements featuring everything from piano to saxophone to perfectly paced percussion, the sonic experience of Child of My Sorrow is, well, fun.

In the #MeToo era, an ending like that in My Fair Lady could give us all hope that people can change—something we desperately need to remember.

But it’s not just talk and rapping; Lecrae uses his talents to aim at the hearts of men, even when people don’t understand his message.

Pink’s “What about Us” at its heart is a call for action; specifically, it’s a call for honesty.

So as we nod our heads, bounce our shoulders, and rap with Childish Gambino in “This is America,” we need not disregard the America he and many others perceive, nor dilute it down to sensationalized art.

Keeping with the political tenor of the times, A Perfect Circle fearlessly brings religion into the fray once again.

Scott Hutchison didn’t believe in anything beyond this life, but when I talk about light that emanates from his songs, I call it spiritual. He saw a daunting, cold world and set about doing what he could to breathe warmth into it, to strive against his pride to love unselfishly, to rage against the idea that we must accept the earth in its broken state.

With DAMN. and its accompanying Pulitzer, Kendrick Lamar has crossed a milestone, has set a precedent—has established a fresh tradition; hip-hop has entered a new phase.