Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Albums Lists Favorite Recordings of 2025: #15–#11 Here are my reflections on five of my fifteen favorite recordings of 2025, featuring (in alphabetical order) Ólafur Arnalds (with Talos), Patty Griffin, Anna B Savage, Mavis Staples, and Wet Leg.
On Songs & Albums Turn It Up: Mavis Staples, PJ Harvey, and more Due to the demands of recent deadlines, an annual writers retreat, and an illness, I've fallen behind on some things... including my music column "Listening Closer." But that will return next week with a focus on new music by Shearwater. That doesn't mean I
Mavis Staples Andy Whitman Interviews Mavis Staples Mavis Staples' You Are Not Alone was far and away the finest gospel album I heard in 2010. Have you heard it yet? It's so full of joy, warmth, encouragement, and soul. My friend Andy Whitman was blessed with an opportunity to interview her, and he turned
