What is there to gain from probing life’s wounds? Brandi Carlile has an answer in her new album.

“Performing makes me feel vividly alive.”

To truly get me into the spirit of the season, I need “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

Last year, 'America' published “An (unconventional) Advent Playlist.” This is my (much more conventional) Advent playlist.

In a new exhibit, we are treated to a kind of shrine to the band’s origins.

On Christmas Eve 1818, in the church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf near Salzburg, “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night”) was sung for the first time. Today, the carol has been translated into some 300 languages.