Listen to Another New Sufjan Stevens Song: ‘My Rajneesh’
Just a week after Sufjan Stevens’ freaky folk July 4 return with “My America,” he’s back with that single’s b-side “My Rajneesh” — a ten-minute meditation on the 1984 Rajneeshee…
Sufjan Stevens Is the Perfect Coronavirus Season Soundtrack
With Sufjan Stevens’ announcement of a new album dropping later this year, here’s a reminder of why he’s ideal quarantine listening. Sufjan Stevens’ music is full of birds. Swans, hawks,…
Social Club Misfits’ Marty Wants to Change the Landscape of Christian Music
Martin Santiago is better known as Marty and best-known as one half of the excellent hip-hop duo Social Club Misfits. But as his new solo album proves, Marty’s got plenty…
Leon Bridges Has Released ‘Sweeter’, a Haunting New Ode to the Agony of Racism
Leon Bridges has a new album in the works, but was moved to share the song “Sweeter” — which he performed with Terrace Martin – given the death of George…
Switchfoot Has Dropped a Cover of Frank Ocean’s ‘Swim Good’ and Has an EP of Covers on the Way
Switchfoot has been putting quarantine to good use by recording a new EP of covers called, appropriately enough, Covers. That’s not super surprising, as most bands put out a cover album at…
How Maverick City Music Is Breaking the Worship Music Mold
With all the worship music out there, it can be tempting to lump it all into the same box. But Maverick City Music easily resists any such labels, bursting through…
Hawk Nelson Frontman Jon Steingard: ‘I No Longer Believe in God’
Christians of a certain age are probably familiar with the work of Hawk Nelson, a Christian power pop act that grew to prominence on the strength of fun hooks…
Check Out the Video for Hillsong UNITED’s ‘Another In the Fire’, Featuring the Hillsong Crew in Quarantine
Hard to say what the original concept for the “Another in the Fire” music video might have been, but here’s guessing it would have been very different than what we’ve…
The 1975 on How Refusing to Compromise Led to Success
Friday will see the release of Notes on a Conditional Form, the latest release from The 1975. The band’s new album started out as a companion piece to 2018’s A Brief…
Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Nine Inch Nails and Pretty Much Everyone Is Working on New Music in Quarantine
Quarantine brought out hobbies in everyone. Some people bake. Others took up yoga. Lots of people started knitting. And musicians started making music, which probably explains why pretty much everyone…
Bethel’s Josh Baldwin on Keeping Worship Music as Honest as Possible
Josh Baldwin cut his teeth in the Southeast, where he grew up on the traveling band circuit — traveling with other artists while slowly building up a small repertoire of…
The Trailer for Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ Eurovision Movie Is the First Great Music Video of 2020
Next month, Netflix will debut Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, which is …well, what is it exactly? It’s hard to say. The movie will star Will Ferrell and…
Here’s RELEVANT’s Quarantunes Mix to Get You Through Your Week
Hey, quick question: what day is it? Honestly, the new normal is starting to feel like the regular normal, and the regular normal is just a weird version of the…
Wande Is Reach Records’ First Woman Artist and She’s Just Getting Started
Lecrae. Andy Mineo. Trip Lee. Tedashii. The Reach Records roster is a murderer’s row of hip hop stars famous for bold lyrics that don’t sacrifice a single iota of quality,…
Kim Walker-Smith on How Socially Distanced Church Has Helped Her Get Back to the Basics
Jesus Culture has always inhabited a unique space in the worship music scene. They’re veterans of a movement they entered by accident, by the band’s own admission. They’ve never been…