<p><P>On Jan. 22, 2008, I headed down to Joe's Pub in New York City to celebrate the launch of Quaker singer-songwriter <A href="http://www.carrienewcomer.com/">Carrie Newcomer ...

C. McNair Wilson Calling Ken Medema a singer-composer is like calling the Yankees a ball club. For his latest CD, Sea Change, Ken is also ...

Beth Newberry Ben Harper is known for songs that are either personal or political, and in Lifeline, his latest release with the Innocent C ...

<p><P>Recently, I had the opportunity to interview John Sayles about his movie <A href="http://honeydripper-movie.com/">Honeydripper</A>, a multilayered and complex account of ...

Steve Thorngate The Trumpet Child, by Over the Rhine. When comedian Gracie Allen took up painting, sh ...

<P><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/11/changes-down-under-by-jim-wall.html">Jim wrote a piece</a> a few weeks back about the new Bonhoeffer-quoting Aussie PM Kev ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Someone foolishly suggested I should actually play in public. After less than a year of violin ...

Molly Marsh Race Matters True to Our Native Land, edited by Brian Blount, describes itself as the first African-American commentary on the ...

Danny Duncan Collum Singing the songs of a bygone world. "I was thinking about the disappearing American ...

Brian Bolton Every artist knows the pressure to "shut up and sing." But with the injustices of our nation made evident in the wa ...

Kimberly Burge Lucinda Williams' singing voice inhabits at least a dozen personalities, sometimes within one song. ...

During the <a href="http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/">Tribeca Film Festival</a>, I happened to catch the world premiere of the documentary <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co ...

Danny Duncan Collum The Southern soul - and community - of Stax Records. Satellite Records was launched 50 yea ...

Laurel Rae Mathewson Real Re-Creation Real Re-Creation Instead of fighting to find a "break&q ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Just try to play the violin under a low-hanging ceiling fan. There comes a time in a man’s life ...

John Potter Pop musician Moby on how his faith affects his lifestyle, art, and activism. Watch your head,” Mob ...

Steve Thorngate I don’t usually expect too much from blues-rock music. I don’t usually expect too much from bl ...

Josh Andersen The "New Monastics" look for ways to be in the world but not of it. East Tennessee swe ...

Danny Duncan Collum Appalachian-influenced music with a modern twist: Zoe Speaks. In 1997, Steve Earle, depres ...

Danny Duncan Collum Neil Young's Living With War reopens the channel between artist and audience. In May, ...

John Potter Is a movement of post-punk, justice-seeking, Jesus-following musicians on the rise? One musician p ...

Steve Thorngate This day is filling up my room, Is coming through my door. Oh, I have not seen this day before. ...

Molly Marsh A Basis for Peace A Basis for Peace The Tent of Abraham, by Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister ...

Dean Nelson He seems relatively amused when people quote lines from the most famous song he’s ever recorded, but this day he was pretty se ...

Molly Marsh An interview with food activists Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry. Every movement needs its revolutiona ...

Steve Thorngate There's a rich middle ground between organ lofts and praise bands. At a seminar last yea ...

Kate Bowman Johnston 'Pop music possesses the power to transport the human spirit.' In a 2005 Rol ...

Josh Andersen Does Ricky Martin's sexed-up music undercut his anti-trafficking activism? Ricky Martin is ...

The Editors Music for the journey Road Tunes Linford Detweiler’s extraordinary pian ...

Molly Marsh Finding the Other in word and song. Tapping the Groundwaters Given what’s ...

Julie Polter Censorship, banning, blacklists: What's lost when governments stifle musical expression? ...

Kate Bowman Johnston A trip to Africa produces a holy shake-up, and a new tune, for Jars of Clay. ...

Molly Marsh Economic Oppression Economic Oppression In There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty in the Bible , Old Testament professor Leslie H ...

Danny Duncan Collum Old-time country music is the new punk rock. Thank you for the insightful ...

Vincent Harding Bernice Johnson Reagon Rachel E. Harding ...

Kate Bowman Political power and the hip-hop generation. It' It’s difficult fo ...

Nontando Hadebe The distinctive sound of Ladysmith Black Mambazo is one of the finest expressions of African music. ...

Nathan Johnston Gathered from various concert performances over the past decade, Don't Talk About Love—a 16-track album that spans a ...

Beth Isaacson An interview with music-maker, activist, and passionate believer Michelle Shocked. Michelle Sho ...

Julie Polter The movement needs a good mix tape. I've joined in many peace vigils, rallies, and marches ...

Marshela Salgado More than 30 years into his career, nine Grammys, and dozens of tours, 55-year-old Carlos Santana's music continues ...

Kate Bowman The first time I played Waterdeep's new album for my housemates, they were up and dancing within seconds. ...

The Editors The Gathering of Spirits, by Carrie Newcomer. The Gathering of Spirits , by Carrie Newcomer. Ne ...

Mark Lewis Taylor Since Sept. Since Sept. 11, country music stations have blared songs like Lee Greenwood ...

Bethany Spicher Schonberg Imagine a packed elementary school auditorium and only an hour between hundreds of kids and summer vacation. &qu ...

Danny Duncan Collum In country music the greatest sins are pretense and snobbery That sentence is the title ...

Carrie Newcomer Friends, this song is called "I Heard an Owl," and it was written two days after the Sept. 11 tragedy. ...

At first, listening to A Time to Sing! At first, listening to A Time to Sing! and If I Had a Song seemed a bit like stumbling into a wondrous party thrown by Appleseed Recor ...

Kimberly Burge Aimee Moiso It's about truth. And listening. An interview with musi ...

Danny Duncan Collum Rock has done the most to break down social conventions and cultural norms. So where are the gay rock stars? ...