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.

What is there to gain from probing life’s wounds? Brandi Carlile has an answer in her new album.

“Performing makes me feel vividly alive.”

To truly get me into the spirit of the season, I need “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

Last year, 'America' published “An (unconventional) Advent Playlist.” This is my (much more conventional) Advent playlist.

In a new exhibit, we are treated to a kind of shrine to the band’s origins.