Songlights Songlights: Iron & Wine, Peter Gabriel, Beck, Phoebe Bridgers, Allison Russell, The Waterboys, Nathan Partain Thank God for the music that gets me through the hot midsummer afternoons and these long, uncomfortable nights.
Bruce Springsteen Songlights: Urgent Springsteen. Fierce new tracks from Little Simz and Kae Tempest. The return of Wednesday. And a night with Allison Russell. This week, a lot of new music plays as desperate appeals for conscience, for action, for justice as it seems the last pillars of American democracy are being smashed by hate-driven fascists.
Wet Leg Songlights: Wet Leg; Lucy Dacus; Alison Russell and Annie Lennox; Djo Songs that are lighting my week: Sunday, March 30–April 5, 2025.
The Weekender Weekender: Allison Russell, Philip Yancey, and Enchanted Journey II: Ex-vangelical Boogaloo In this edition of The Weekender, a miscellany of podcast highlights, insights on faith and race, a prayer worth memorizing, and a memorable TED Talk.
On Songs & Albums Favorite Recordings of 2021: Part Three (#15–#1) You are arriving at the summit of my 2021 Music Mountain. These are my fifteen favorite albums of 2021
On Songs & Albums Sunday Song: Listening Closer to Jon Batiste and Allison Russell A new feature at Looking Closer — "Sunday Song" — will feature one or two recent releases that are in frequent rotation during my weekday commute jam session. Here are two of my favorite 2021 songs so far, from Jon Batiste and Allison Russell.
