Nathan Gilmour discusses John Locke’s “Letter Concerning Toleration” with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Marc Byrd and Christine Glass WHO ARE THEY? I don’t know the actual story, but I like to think that Marc Byrd and Christine…

In our annual Christmas episode, David Grubbs talks about George Frideric Handel’s 1742 oratorio The Messiah, with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer.

GENRE TAGS (OTHER THAN ALTERNATIVE ROCK): Dream Pop, Electronic, Holiday, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Pop-Punk, Pop/Rock, Punk Rock, Reggae, Singer/Songwriter, Ska-Punk, Slowcore, Synth Pop, Third-Wave Ska WHAT IS IT? Tooth…

Download or stream this episode None of our listeners, I’m sure, will disagree with me when I say that we live in divided times—terrifyingly divided times, it sometimes seems, in…

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Listen to this and other recent episodes.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Bob Dylan’s 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited.

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: L.S.U. WHO ARE THEY? The hardest-working man in Christian show business is almost certainly Mike Knott, who fronts L.S.U. (and about forty other bands,…

Download or stream this episode Michial Farmer continues our Twilight Zone crossover by talking about “The Howling Man” and “The Masks” with Christina Bieber Lake and the Christian Feminist Podcast’s…

David Grubbs leads Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of museums.

This is part of a regular ongoing series, in which I examine the history and discography of some of the best artists in the underground Christian rock scene of the…

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony.”

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 1976 Sylvester Stallone movie Rocky.

Søren Kierkegaard’s enduring popularity might be due as much to his unconventional and fascinating life as to his writing. Most of our listeners are, I’m sure, familiar with its central…

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Alan Jacobs’s recent essay “The Watchmen.” Michael Eric Dyson’s “Cornel West’s Rise and Fall” Marilynne Robinson’s “Fear” Robinson’s interview with…