Apple’s new album feels like a sustained performance, dense with emotion and observation.
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R.I.P. John Prine, oracle of the broken and the beautiful
John Prine, who died on Tuesday, April 7, was one of country-folk music’s greatest lyricists.
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We’re in the New Age of Protest Music
Several political artists were been nominated for Grammys this year, including Rhiannon Giddens, bluegrass outfit Che Apalache and Kenyan folk singer J.S. Ondara.
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In ‘Broken Silence,’ a composer brings a note of hope to the church’s sex abuse crisis
“Broken Silence” is more than a concert. It is a musical meditation that plunges straight to the heart of our collective trauma.
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Review: Kanye’s infatuation with the prosperity gospel (and himself)
Part of me winces at “Jesus Is King,” as though it were a decaying tooth. But if I’m honest, another part of me is drawn to the rot.
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30 years after her debut, Selena is the icon we need today.
Our music superstars sounded and looked a little bit different, one woman, in particular. She was known as La Reina del Tex Mex, the Queen of Tejano music: Selena Quintanilla.
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This Palestinian hip hop group’s new record is a feminist rallying cry
DAM is making feminism its focus in its latest album.
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Bruce Springsteen looks for mercy and deliverance in new album ‘Western Stars’
Springsteen has created a sprawling sonic landscape that, in its best moments, feels like the soundtrack to a film you would love to see.
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The harrowing story of French nuns killed by the guillotine returns to the Metropolitan Opera
Originally written by Georges Bernanos, the “Dialogues of the Carmelites” was turned into an opera by the French composer Francis Poulenc.
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How gospel music helped me find my Catholic identity
My relationship with gospel music was forged not just on those Sunday mornings at home with Jackson and in church with my family but also on late nights in the backseat of a 1962 Chevy Bel Air sedan.