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Syrian artists Aziz Asmar and Anis Hamdoun finish a mural depicting George Floyd in the town of Binnish in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on June 1, 2020 [Omar Haj Kadour/ AFP] Earlier this month, BBC Culture published an excellent article by Arwa Haidar exploring the global reach and universal language of the art of protest through the murals painted across the world to honour George Floyd – the Black American man whose killing at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May triggered a massive uprising for racial justice in the United States and beyond. In an equally insightful a...

The Album Steve Earle Never Wanted to Make: A Tribute to His Son Less than two months after Justin Townes Earle’s death from an accidental overdose, his father entered Electric Lady Studios to record an LP’s worth of his songs. Recording the album “wasn’t cathartic as much as it was therapeutic,” Steve Earle said. “I made the record because I needed to.”Credit...Meghan Marin for The New York Times Dec. 29, 2020 On the evening of Aug. 20, Steve Earle spoke to his son Justin Townes Earle for the last time. In a phone call initiated by Justin, they caught up on family business and ...

Bruce Piephoff is a meanderer. He's a wanderer, a poet, singer/songwriter, a folky philosopher. He's been settled down now for quite a while with wife Laura and son David, but his thoughts still take him for strolls in a lush, wordy forest. A basketball player in high school at Grimsley, Piephoff's musical journey took him off the boards and onto the road. Initially planning to play basketball at UNC-Chapel Hill, he decided he wasn't destined to be a baller and investigated his musical curiosity instead. He says that going to Chapel Hill was like going to Paris for him, a revelation that arou...