Alt-rock stalwart Mark Lanegan unveiled a chilling new song, “Bleed All Over,” from his upcoming album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, set to arrive May 8th. The track boasts an icy post-punk edge thanks ...

Those looking to hear the signature rough and rugged sounds of Mark Lanegan, the Northwest’s broken angel of grunge music, when pressing play on his new LP, Straight Songs of Sorrow, will likely be ...

PASADENA (KABC) -- In honor of Black History Month, Saint Andrew Catholic Church in Pasadena organized a concert featuring African American spiritual songs. The music from the acclaimed bass baritone ...

Though he recognized their revolutionary undercurrent, W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), the brilliant, still influential Black sociologist, poignantly called American spirituals the “Sorrow Songs.” He also ...

“Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. ” — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Hope lives in sound. It lives in memory. And in ...

For someone who has seen as much life and spent as much time behind the curtain of the music industry as grunge icon, Mark Lanegan, one might think there wouldn’t be a lot of new ground for the artist ...

It’s easy to forget what an oddly heterogeneous and restless book is W.E.B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. We remember it most, perhaps, for Du Bois’s illumination of “the color-line” — the problem ...

Author Susan Cain defines “bittersweetness” as “a state of being or tendency” that is characterized by “longing, poignancy, and sorrow." In this state, we become “acutely aware of the passage of time ...