Music for a transgender journey In the contemporary American dialogue about sexual expression, there are increasing numbers of individuals talking about the transgender experience.…
The Oh Hellos, Through the Deep, Dark Valley (2012)
Music of the kingdom About a month ago I received an email from an acquaintance asking if I was aware of the group, The…
The Milk Carton Kids
A perfect blending I first heard The Milk Carton Kids watching the superb television documentary, Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the music of Inside…
Woven Hand, Refractory Obdurate (2014)
Woe to the broken planet If David Eugene Edwards was a fictional character instead of a musician, he’d appear in a story by Flannery…
Rapturous visions—or not
A while back the hymn, “Blessed Assurance” was in the service of morning worship in our church. That hymn is always a problem for…
Omne Quod Spirat Laudet Dominum
We drove to the Twin Cities last night (in a light snowstorm) for a concert by the St Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO). The traffic…
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
A soundtrack for our time Vampire Weekend is four musicians who met as students at Columbia University. Modern Vampires of the City, their third…
Neko Case, The Worse Things Get…(2013)
Music for When You’re Lost I’ve heard Neko Case only once in concert—she opened for Emmylou Harris—and ever since I’ve wished I could hear…
Karen Choi, Paper Birch (2012)
Touching time, sensing something more Karen Choi has been on the move—Nebraska to Missouri to Minnesota to Missouri with a brief stopover in Tennessee…
Charlie Peacock, No Man’s Land (2012)
Grit, Gumption & Faith My office window looks out over the front yard of Toad Hall. I can see the thistle feeder where the…