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Kiss Me
Sixpence None the Richer is my favorite band. I used to be embarrassed to say this, particularly in 1999, when their bouncy pop song “Kiss Me” became a ubiquitous, worldwide radio hit. I knew, and know, that the band was more than this one song, but "Kiss Me" on the radio, in 1999, was the moment when Sixpence None the Richer ceased to be a band and started to be an....
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Hear No Evil
A few months ago, I got a message from Hannah Notess (you may know her as a recent Milton Fellow and contributor to Image) alerting me to the impending release of a book she thought I might be interested in. And indeed, at almost any other point in my life, I would have been looking forward to reading Matthew Paul Turner's memoir Hear No Evil with great....
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What Am I Supposed to Do About it Now?
Jennifer Knapp played a show in my hometown last week. I have been sitting in front of the computer for about two hours because I’m not sure what I should write about that. I keep assuming that I ought to say something about Knapp, since the story unfolding around her during the past few weeks (her disappearance from Christian music, her sudden return, her coming out as....
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This Week in Under-Known Christian-ish Rock
Ever since I decided to stop trying to know everything about new music (I really recommend this; it’s very liberating), I’ve been able to focus on my favorite genre, which the good people of ImageUpdate recently made fun of me for: “Recording Artists Who Kinda Sound Like They Might Be Christians.” I thought I might spill a little digital ink about the....
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He’s My Elvis
For a few months, I wrote an album-review column for a daily newspaper in Northern California, which I pretentiously titled “Synapse to Synapse: Reviews of Recently Released Popular Music.” The subtitle was the most accurate description I could think of for the column, though....
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Issue 72
Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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