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Warren Barfield: Worth Fighting For

1 Comment By David Sessions
June 16, 3:56 PM
For every one of us that sends withering looks in the direction of one-trick radio suck-ups like Daughtry, John Mayer and Jack Johnson, there are fifty individuals who like them enough to shell out fifteen bucks for their like, actual CDs (which perhaps explains why… More >>

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Colour Revolt: Plunder, Beg and Curse

Comments OffBy David Sessions
June 2, 9:55 AM
Like many a misplaced, artsy Southern boy, the members of Colour Revolt apparently find faux Britishism cathartic (linguistic affectations like spelling and punctuation, for example). Or it might… More >>
 

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Rules to live by

11 CommentsBy Marvin Olasky
May 26, 2:00 PM
If you’re graduating from college or high school this month, maybe someone will give you Charles Sykes’s 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in Schools (St. Martin’s Press, 2008).… More >>

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The politics of happiness

44 Comments By Marvin Olasky
May 23, 3:03 PM
I mentioned the other day research by Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks into the causes of happiness among Americans.… More >>

Money doesn’t buy happiness

12 Comments By Marvin Olasky
May 20, 3:00 PM
That headline is a cliché, but a Syracuse University faculty member who crunches poll numbers is backing up that assumption… More >>

Augustana: Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt

Comments Off By David Sessions
May 14, 9:52 AM
While the debate rages over whose shoulders will next be draped in the cloak of Bruce Springsteen (will it be… More >>
 

The Weepies: Hideaway

1 Comment By David Sessions
May 1, 8:48 AM
The Weepies have the perfect backstory to validate their insistently emotional music: Steven Tannen and Deb Talan met in a… More >>

Say Hi: The Whisper and the Glitch

3 Comments By David Sessions
April 25, 2:55 PM
What is it with cult bands changing their names after four albums, as if the shortening were some sort of… More >>

Sanctus Real: We Need Each Other

2 Comments By David Sessions
April 22, 4:35 PM
Maybe it’s only because we’re talking about Christian rock and Christian rock reviewers, but U2 comparisons have followed Sanctus Real… More >>

Monarch: Lowly

12 Comments By David Sessions
April 16, 8:58 PM
The great problem of putting deep emotion to music is the risk one runs of appearing either psychologically disturbed or… More >>
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