Before we reveal the top Radiohead albums according to Burnside readers, we want you to vote on the top ten albums of 2006. You can pick any album you please, even your friend’s record he played in his basement. The only stipulation is, it has to have been released in 2006. Send your top ten...

It’s hard to resist a good story. Whether you’re drawn in by the strong lead characters, the intricate plot twists, or the detailed description of the scenery, there are few things in this world as mentally, psychologically, or spiritually compelling as a well-written narrative. Stories...

Laura Gibson is pretty much everything you could want from a folk singer. The bio on her website lists her upbringing in an “isolated logging town in the south coast of Oregon”, the daughter of the town’s kindergarten teacher and a forest ranger. She plays a classical, nylon-stringed...

Here’s this – I know that I shouldn’t even be listening to this group, since I’m about 7 to 10 years too old and about 75 pounds over the necessary weight required to wear the appropriate uniform that most (if not all) hardcore kids have been wearing for the past couple of years....

Readers, Alright, it’s still ten days away, but we won’t see you again until the New Year. I hope you’ve all had a splendid Christmas season. I’d like to wish our Jewish readers a Happy Hannukah, but I’m thinking we probably don’t have a lot of Jewish readers, being...

By now the Ted Haggard affair has been effectively beaten and buried. I don’t miss hearing about it and reading about it everywhere I look. And yet I have to confess that the way it all unfolded absolutely fascinated me–in a morbid, queasy kind of way. I think what stood out to me most was...

Both MTV and VH1 played a major role in my middle school/high school years, opening me up to new types of music beyond The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. MTV may be our most crass example of marketing to America’s youth, but that only goes to show how accurate a barometer MTV’s broadcasting is...

“…blood is the seed of Christians.” -Tertullian. Last night in my seminary class on early church history we formed small groups to discuss the view of martyrdom within our own faith communities. Once in our groups, we stared blankly into each other’s faces for minutes on end before...

Bing Crosby’s great and all, but this year put a twist on your Christmas music playlist. Instead of throwing a boring Christmas party, pick a unique theme: Spin Sufjan Stevens and serve gluten-free Christmas cookies to your hipster friends; blast holiday music from around the world and have guests...

Readers, I’m in the Christmas spirit this year. A lot of times, the whole season rushes up on me, but I’m going to enjoy this month. It’s going to be a good rest of the year. Maybe it’s listening to “O Holy Night” over and over again. Since we’re posting an...