What is there to gain from probing life’s wounds? Brandi Carlile has an answer in her new album.
Music
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In the dead of winter, Helen Sung’s jazz feels like summertime
“Performing makes me feel vividly alive.”
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Advent Playlist: Classic hymns to help you wait in hope
Last year, ‘America’ published “An (unconventional) Advent Playlist.” This is my (much more conventional) Advent playlist.
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The Velvet Underground: rock’s first cult band
In a new exhibit, we are treated to a kind of shrine to the band’s origins.
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Is ‘Silent Night’ the greatest Christmas song ever?
On Christmas Eve 1818, in the church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf near Salzburg, “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night”) was sung for the first time. Today, the carol has been translated into some 300 languages.
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Meet the Palestinian rocker writing love songs and protest anthems
Rasha Nahas: “The story I bring with me being a Palestinian artist born in Haifa.”
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The grace-filled encounter between Paul McCartney and James Corden
This extraordinary episode has much to teach us.
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“Be Not Afraid”: The song that eases the biggest transitions in—and out of—life
Bob Dufford, S.J., started writing “Be Not Afraid” when he was, well, afraid.
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Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway magic trick
In “Springsteen on Broadway,” song, story and storyteller merge.
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What Childish Gambino and Flannery O’Connor have in common
Gambino’s new video for ‘This is America’ is an experience of radical interruption, one that O’Connor would have appreciated.