On Songs & Albums Songlights: Join me & Anne for Over the Rhine's 3-day music festival with Amy Helm, Jeffrey Martin, & more. Also: David Byrne laughs. Annahstasia shines. Laura Stevenson returns. Elbow shares extras. I'll keep updating this post with new music that moves me between June 28 and July 4. So, check back! Share a song that's deeply moving you right now—I'll add a link to it at the end of the post.
On Songs & Albums 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.
Bruce Cockburn Songlights: Bruce Cockburn; My Morning Jacket; Tamino and Mitski; Halsey; Goat; Elbow; and more. Songs that lit my week: Sunday, March 23–29, 2025.
Favorite Recordings Favorite Recordings of 2024: Part Two — Honorable Mentions (veterans and legends; big-deal divas who don't really need more attention, and divas who deserve to be very big deals)
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 Overstreet Radio: Wilco, Lucy Dacus, Innocence Mission, R.E.M., Bruce Cockburn, and more Here's a long list of new songs that are heating up my cold autumn days. Enjoy!
Journal Cinemarginalia: September 14 This is the first installment in an new weekly series of miscellany-loaded posts. This one includes notes on my recent encounters with Blue Jay, Luce, War of the Worlds, The Peanut Butter Falcon, and more!
On Songs & Albums More than just buzz: Elbow's knockout EP Elbow — an English rock band that is fulfilling the promise I once heard in Coldplay, and who are consistently taking risks and embarking on songs so ambitious that U2 would do well to learn form their example — have followed up my favorite album they've released so far (2014&
