This is a great song for a Sunday, kids. It’s not about religion (read: greed and violence). This is a song about love, yo. Yeah, imagine that!
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The future is here, kids. A novel is no longer limited to printed words on paper. We have the technology! In addition to the old-fashioned book, a novel can include rock and roll music, film, and even a youtube playlist. Almost like a Sunday service at your local mega-church.
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The Taqwacores, a movie based on Michael Muhammad Knight’s modern
of the same name, shows a very different Islam. A very American Islam; a punk rock Islam.
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“In the Beginning” is the eighth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series on YouTube. Other than featuring sound bites from the world’s foremost scientists, the videos utilize perhaps the best use of auto-tune I’ve ever heard. This one features Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Tara Shears, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. I [...]
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Of all the Christmas miracles bestowed upon mankind, perhaps none has showcased the sheer majesty of divine power more than when David Bowie and Bing Crosby came together for one fateful night to perform the best, and most unlikely, Christmas duet of the last 2000 years.
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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life Steve Almond Random House (2010) Everyone likes music. Some more than others. But for an unfortunate minority, music is life. It ceases to be merely pleasant background noise and invades every aspect of daily existence. It defines the clothes they wear, influences speech and thought patterns, dictates who [...]
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If punk rock songs are short, loud, offensive, and give a big F.U. to the mainstream, then Michael Muhammad Knight’s new novel, Osama Van Halen
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While browsing YouTube, I came across this beautiful song Yusuf Islam wrote for his baby daughter to teach her the Arabic alphabet. Enjoy.
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This is a music video beyond description. It may be religious…er cultish. Mythic for sure.
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If Daniel Johnston were born in a different time and place, he might have been burned as a heretic or confined forever to an insane asylum. But in this age, the self-taught singer-songwriter, given to paranoid delusions about Satan and violent outbursts, has become a revered figure in the underground art and music world.
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It’s the 20th anniversary of the release of Madonna’s religious imagery infused “Like a Prayer” video and doomed Pepsi campaign this month.
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