Mount Nyiragongo’s eruption and earthquake, and the aftershocks that continue to shake the Democratic Republic of Congo remind one that the Christian God of that Christian country—brought to Africa by ...

Maybe more than any other American city, New Orleans is a home place for music. In fact, much of American music was nourished directly in the Mississippi delta region, a place that has experienced ...

Best Coast announced an indefinite hiatus a couple of months ago, and now bandleader Bethany Cosentino is getting ready to release Natural Disaster, her first-ever solo album. The LP comes out later ...

Two hours after his Aug. 19 performance at New Orleans Arena, Frankie Beverly sat in a dimly lit dressing room, winding down from an emotional night. With the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina ...

A drawing from Kazuto Tatsuta's "Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant." (Kazuto Tatsuta/Kodansha, Ltd.) Such creative works coming out of the disaster will be ...

The intriguingly titled Black Music Disaster is part of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series, which for over a decade has documented numerous cross-stylistic collaborations between artists from different genres.