I’ve been living with dry eye my whole life and didn’t know that’s what it was. I’ve gone to so many different eye doctors since I was a kid and she was the first to give it a name

Mine too ❤️ It really do make a difference, don’t it?

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

Listen like, I'm using Oxford commas and I'm using em-dashes because I wrote a lot of fancy-schmancy essays in college.

If the requirement to appearing human is to write like I didn't write fancy papers in college then bot me up ig.

I refuse to write like an lol XD TikTok commenter.

🎵 Folk — a 20-track playlist

20 tracks • 75:56
Curated by GetMusic on Indie Crates

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Tapping the sign

Fun!

Sugar Magnolia
Uncle John’s Band
Mr. Charlie
Friend of the Devil
Box of Rain
Loose Lucy
Dire Wolf
Black Peter
Brokedown Palace
Mississippi Half-Step

St. Stephen
Unbroken Chain
Help on the Way/Slipknot
Comes A Time
Weather Report
Ripple
Terrapin Station
That’s It For The Other One
Alligator

Deadheads: pick 10 songs to introduce a Grateful Dead newbie. Then pick 10 you consider essential Dead. First list = most accessible; second = their greatest, most brilliant work.

Overlap between the two lists is fine.

Deadheads: pick 10 songs to introduce a Grateful Dead newbie. Then pick 10 you consider essential Dead. First list = most accessible; second = their greatest, most brilliant work.

Overlap between the two lists is fine.

Various Artists - Can't Seem to Come Down: The American Sounds of 1968 Summer Walker - Finally Over It Ari Lennox - Vacancy Lil Nas X - MONTERO Joann Rosario - More, More, More Shoshana Bean - Only Smoke FLO - The Lead Men Of Standard - Surrounded Mariah Carey - E=MC2 (Deluxe Version) Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl Jennifer Lopez - LOVE? Julie London - Lonely Girl Kygo - Save My Love The Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits Alesso - Fade Bebe Rexha - Çike Çike

march 2026 topster

The brand new God's Music Is My Life newsletter is UP! This week looks at the productions of Nashboro Records' Shannon Williams who was both a preserver of traditional gospel and innovator of contemporary gospel.

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We still have tacos 🫠

Tuesday is my release day.

Changed the game with that digital drop but at what costs? 😩

Plus, looking forward to a new project dropping made us actually anticipate Tuesdays. Made Tuesday less mundane as a day. & helped make Monday not as bad (“sure it’s a Monday, but at least the new [fav artist] drops tomorrow!”)

Fridays don’t need new music to feel special. They’re already Fridays.

New music (and home video) releases happening on Tuesday made Tuesdays feel special. I remember my dad picking up a new CD and/or DVD on Tuesdays during his lunch break. He’d play the CD in the car on the way home and then we’d have a movie to watch that evening.

Petition to move new music release day back to Tuesday 🧵

Steve Taylor/Russ Taff: Opening Night of the '[Almost] Farewell' Tour A reflective, deeply personal look at Steve Taylor and Russ Taff’s (Almost) Farewell Tour, exploring their enduring artistry, prophetic voices, & the evolving landscape of contemporary Christian music

I'm really proud of the latest God's Music Is My Life newsletter. Last Sunday, I got to witness Steve Taylor & Russ Taff, two CCM icons, at a bar in Nashville. I write about why/how their music connects to our times here >>> godsmusicismylife.substack.com/p/steve-tayl...

AI songs and bot streams. If it weren’t for the scale of the fraud (billions of streams cutting into their profits), I doubt the streaming services would have even cared. The “AI songs” part reads as the least important, which is disappointing.

Streaming Music Slop Scammer Ggets $8M Fine & Prison Time The man who defrauded streaming services of $8 million with AI-generated slop songs has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

First-Ever US Streaming Music Fraud Case Ends In a Guilty Plea: Slop Scammer Hit With $8.1 Million Fine, Up to 5 Years In Prison www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/19/s...

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a woman in a wig is holding a hair dryer in her right hand Alt: Farrah Fawcett twirling while flipping her hair

Good morning, Charlie.

CDs are also making a similar comeback, and it’s not hard to figure out why - people like actually owning the music they buy and used CDs are a nice alternative if you can’t afford a vinyl collection that chokes your time and bank account in equal measure

Kiki Shepard, legendary "Showtime at the Apollo" host, has died Kiki Shepard, best known as the co-host of the classic music variety series “Showtime at the Apollo,” has died at 74.

Kiki Shepard devoted her life to improving the lives of those living with sickle cell disease. In 2006, she founded The KIS Foundation to raise awareness.

Kiki Shepard, 'Showtime at the Apollo' Co-Host, Dead At 74 Kiki Shepard -- the longtime co-host of the legendary music showcase "Showtime at the Apollo" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Kiki Shepard, the longtime co-host of “Showtime at the Apollo,” has died. She was 74

🎵 Folk — a 19-track playlist

19 tracks • 64:49
Curated by GetMusic on Indie Crates

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spotifyforartists: This year, more than 13,800 artists generated at least $100,000 on Spotify. In fact, more artists generated over $100K in 2025 than generated $50K just five years ago (13,500). (24,700 artists generated at least $50,000 on Spotify in 2025.)

corbinmorbin: Out of all the millions of artists? spotifyforartists: Yes millions of artist profiles on Spotify, but the majority are hobbyists. Nearly two thirds have 0-10 tracks only, and half are first time uploaders. Of the ~ 250k on Spotify seriously pursuing music, more than ever are succeeding, and that's growing every day. jessiejayne.music: @spotifyforartists if 2/3rds of users on ur platform have 0-10 tracks and struggling to get heard how might you elevate their music instead of those with higher budgets to spend on marketing. As a small indie artist I don't know why I'm being charged to use your ad tools for example :/ should it not be included at my level?

raycurenton: @spotifyforartists delineating "hobbyists" from artists "seriously pursuing music" is like when economists don't count underemployed workers in unemployment rates because said workers have resigned themselves to making less than they're worth in a broken economy. I think a far greater portion of the artists that you call hobbyists are indeed "serious" musicians who love music and would love to make even a part-time living from it but don't make much of it and have resigned themselves to doing less of it because they can't afford to-in no small part because streaming royalty rates are abyssal and the ROl on promotion is nonexistent. The deck is completely stacked against us and we get written off as "hobbyists" if we somehow don't rise above it. Wow.

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"Gregory Alan Isakov drones meet Tiny Habits harmonies in this first single from Ray Curenton's upcoming album."

#folk #acoustic #indiefolk #singersongwriter #music

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Francisco J. Ayala: Well-informed Catholics do not see conflict between their religious beliefs and the Darwinian theory of biological evolution. In 1996, Pope John Paul II stated that the conclusions reached by scientific disciplines cannot be in contradiction with divine Revelation, then proceeded to accept the scientific conclusion that evolution is a well-established theory. The Pope went on to point out that science deals with material reality, while questions of "moral conscience, freedom, or … of aesthetic and religious experience, fall within the competence of philosophical analysis and reflection, while theology brings out [their] ultimate meaning according to the Creator's plans." For more than a decade, I have taught the theory of evolution to freshmen. During the early part of the course students come to me, year after year, to express their reservations based on their perceived contradiction between Christian beliefs and the theory of evolution. I treat these students with the great respect they deserve, but respond to them with two considerations very similar to the points made by John Paul II. One is that the evolution of organisms is beyond reasonable doubt, so that the theory of evolution is accepted in this respect with the same certainty that we attribute to Copernicus's heliocentric theory or the molecular composition of matter. The second consideration is that science is a very successful way of knowing, but not the only way. We acquire knowledge in many other ways, such as through literature, the arts, philosophical reflection, and religious experience. A scientific view of the world is hopelessly incomplete. Science seeks material explanations for material processes, but it has nothing definitive to say about realities beyond its scope. Once science has had its say, there remain questions of value, purpose, and meaning that are forever beyond science's domain, but belong in the realm of philosophical reflection and religious experience.

Mark Noll: Some evangelical Christians have trouble reconciling evolution and a traditional belief in God as creator and sustainer of the world, but I do not. Within the evangelical tribe, I belong to the Calvinist wing, where a long history exists of accepting that God speaks to humans through "two books" (Scripture and nature), and since there is but one author of the two books, there is in principle no real conflict possible between what humans learn from solidly grounded science and solidly grounded study of the Bible. Of course, if "evolution" is taken to mean a grand philosophical Explanation of Everything based upon Pure Chance, then I don't believe it at all. But as a scientific proposal for how species develop through natural selection, I say let the scientists who know what they are doing use their expertise and whatever theories help to find out as much as they can. On the Bible side, I do not think it is necessary to read everything in early Genesis as if it were written by a fact-checker at the New York Times. But as a persuasive basis for believing 1) that God made the original world stuff, 2) that he providentially sustains all natural processes, and 3) that he used a special act of creation (perhaps out of nothing, perhaps from apelike ancestors) to make humans in his own image, the Bible is not threatened by responsible scientific investigations. As a historian I am impressed by words of 19th-century conservative Presbyterian, Benjamin B. Warfield: "if we condition the theory [of evolution] by allowing the constant oversight of God in the whole process, and his occasional supernatural interference for the production of new beginnings by an actual output of creative force ... we may hold to the modified theory of evolution and be Christians in the ordinary orthodox sense." These words still hold true today.

Arthur Peacocke: From my scientific background as a physical biochemist who, for nearly three decades in the mid-20th century, was much involved in unravelling the relation of the double-helical structure of DNA to its solution properties, I have long had an interest in the relation of genetics to biological evolution. The sequencing of DNA and proteins in a large range of species from bacteria to Homo sapiens has now crowned the previous strong evidence for the historical interconnectedness and a common origin of all living organisms and for evolution. The role of natural selection in this process is proven dominant, though I do not exclude the possibility that other natural factors*, widely discussed at the moment, may also be operative. The whole process is entirely natural and explicable by the sciences without requiring any special, non-natural, "lures" or influences. As a theist -- one who considers that the best explanation of the existence and lawfulness of the natural world is that it depends for its existence and inbuilt rationality on a self-existent Ultimate Reality (a Creator "God") -- I find the epic of evolution, from the "Hot Big Bang" to Homo sapiens, an illumination of how the Creator God is and has been creating. Evolution enriches our insights into the nature and purposes of the divine creation -- its fecundity, variety, its ability to manifest an increase in complexity to the point where the physical stuff of the world acquires the (holistic) capacity to be self-conscious, to think (in "mental" activity), to instantiate values and to relate to its Creator (in "spiritual" activity). I regard God as creating in, with, and through the natural as unveiled by the sciences; hence I espouse a "theistic naturalism." *To name a few: the possible operation of self-organising principles; how the evolution of an organism can depend on its innovative behaviour; and "top-down causation" through flow of information from the environment to the organism.

Robert Pollack: Evolution is interesting to me because natural selection explains certain facts of life that touch on matters of meaning and purpose, and because the vision of the natural world these explanations produce is simply too terrifying and depressing to me to be borne without the emotional buffer of my own religion. This buffer is simple to describe: a Jewish understanding of our appearance by evolution through natural selection introduces an irrational certainty of meaning and purpose to a set of data that otherwise show no sign of supporting any meaning to our lives on Earth, beyond that of being numbers in a cosmic lottery with no paymaster. I acknowledge there is a wholly consistent alternative description of the natural world and our place in it, which can lead one to exactly the actions I may wish to take or encourage others to take, all without any belief in God. Nothing is wrong with that position. It used to be my own, but as I have gotten older, I find I no longer can honestly hold to it. When I asked my teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz how to respond to this criticism of my position by non-believing friends, he said, "If you know someone who says the Throne of God is empty, and lives with that, then you should cling to that person as a good, strong friend. But be careful: Almost everyone who says that, has already placed something or someone else on that Throne, usually themselves." I find myself accepting the God of my ancestors in part because it is my way of discovering meaning and purpose without denying or distorting the data of science, and in part because otherwise I might put some person, some ideology, some dream of completed science in God's place.

Hearing/reading scientists who happen to also be devout Christians say they believe in both God and evolution and have no trouble reconciling that—that I could be an intellectual and still leave room for the supernatural—was groundbreaking to me. www.pbs.org/wgbh/evoluti...

My sexuality was already causing a rift all through my adolescence but engaging with the materials put together for this NOVA series on evolution for my high school Biology B course is what really began breaking that dam. youtu.be/mg0oMzshT9Y