On Songs & Albums

In April, I closed the Sacrament & Story conference in Seattle by posing a challenge to artists and churches, and by addressing a question that has kept you awake at night, I'm sure: If you go into space, will your DNA be rewritten and turn you into an alien?

Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist return with songs of ruin, loss, and hard-won hope.

Just what the summer movie season needed: a light, fun, frivolous 90 minutes in a record store with Nick Offerman.

Basking in the bright colors of a bold new sound, the Decemberists will lift your spirits at the end of the world.

Hansard sings of hope and vision on Between Two Shores.