Notes on Music

Notes on Music

Modern Times by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s new CD Modern Times casts the singer/songwriter/poet in a decidedly prophetic role.

OK Computer by Radiohead
What makes Radiohead's OK Computer such a groundbreaking album on all levels is that it’s infected with Luddism—not textile worker angst, but human and ethical alienation in the computer age.

David Bazan: Artist, Sinner, Christian
Named one of the top 100 living songwriters by Paste magazine, David Bazan (formerly Pedro The Lion) has produced some of the most compelling musical narratives of hypocrisy, despair, and grace over the last decade.

U2 DISMANTLES THE BOMB WITH LOVE
For U2 the days of being “insufferable little Jesuses” (Bono’s term for the Joshua Tree period of U2) are over, but the days of being simple men in search of God are just beginning, and it’s refreshing to hear.

SUFJAN STEVENS’S AMBITIOUS TRIP THROUGH HEAVEN AND EARTH
Christopher Stratton discusses the music and career of Sufjan Stevens.

JOHNNY CASH WALKED THE LINE
Johnny Cash, June Carter, Man in Balck, Folsom Prison, john cash, Sam Phillips, Gospel music and Johnn y cash, country music, rocakabilly

JOY, AND THE MUSIC OF JEREMY ENIGK
Christopher Stratton discusses the music of Jeremy Enigk (formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate) in light of his Christian conversion.