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Moshpit Muslim
Last year, KtB published a piece about the power of a lapel pin by Michael Muhammad Knight. This month, in The National, Bidoun editor Michael C. Vazquez explores Knight’s work,…
The Communicant’s Summer Jamz!
I had a hankerin’ for Tommy Brew’s unpopular Youth Mass 1970 album. Considered a riposte to Ray Repp (whom Brew considered to be overly sentimental), the songs were never performed…
Resonanda in Ecclesia
On Saturday night, we hosted a stunning concert by Resonanda, Brown University’s medieval music ensemble, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Brooklyn. The program, titled “My Beloved Arrives…,” was a…
Medieval Music Resounds in Brooklyn
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 7:30 – 9:30 pm St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 856 Pacific Street Brooklyn, New York All are welcome, as are donations On May 22nd, at one of…
Four is the Loneliest Number
You never know what you’re going to find once you put on your miner’s helmet and head into the KtB stacks. Sometimes, you strike gold. As in this bona fide…
The Songs of War
In the first years of the Iraq War, what distinguished Maj. Gen. David Petraeus’s success in the north from his fellow commanders’ difficulty in the south was his correct assessment…
Morrissey Debuts New Song!
Just in on theQuiff.net, the best Morrissey newsoutlet in the web! Adding to his collection of songs with Asian or Islamic themes (Bengali in Platforms, Asian Rut and I Will…
God Hates Lady Gaga
According to yesterday’s New York Times, this has been an unusually cold winter due to a mass of high pressure over Greenland that has forced the jet stream down under…
Experiments in Sincerity
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats helps bring the Age of Irony to a close.
Journey to the End of the Night
The sounds of the soul stretch from 16th-century Spain to David Lynch’s LA.
Cornel West: Truth
A drive through Manhattan with a jazzman in the world of ideas crammed in the back seat.
Music for the Crossroads
Oscar Bettison’s O Death: A Requiem Masque for Six Players as out-of-body experience.
American Mythology
For a Halloween special, Buddha-killer E.J. Park shared with us this wonderful film of his, the story of a mystic Jew in search of the American dream. (He meets the…