Science is Real.

They Might Be Giants just released an entire album of science songs. “Here Comes the Science.”

Freethought Music – Nellie McKay

What can I say about Nellie McKay? (pronounced Mc-EYE, so I’m not rhyming)
I can’t sing her praises enough. I think she is one of the most genius artists creating music today, but that’s just my opinion. Her albums feature various styles of songs and many influences. She can play a variety of [...]

Freethought Music: “Die Gedanken Sind Frei”

Music doesn’t get much more freethought-friendly than this:

 
Die Gedanken Sind Frei, 19th c.
 

Die Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten,
sie fliegen vorbei wie nächtliche Schatten.
Kein Mensch kann sie wissen, kein Jäger erschießen
mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!

Ich denke was ich will und was mich beglücket,
doch alles in der Still’, und wie es sich [...]

Freethought Music: Cantus Buranus

Back in May the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, in conjunction with IPFW and the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, performed German composer Carl Orff’s setting of the Carmina Burana, a piece I love for reasons I explained, alongside a little history of the piece, in a previous post. (At that link you can watch [...]

Freethought Music—Ave Verum Corpus (Really!)

It’s Sunday, so how about some church music? Although, in my experience, this surprises many people, many of us atheists like the transcendental sublimity of sacred music just fine; we just feel no compulsion to ascribe the response we feel to any supernatural explanation. What’s being “transcended” is the ordinariness of our typical emotional states, [...]

Greydon Square

Greydon Square is a hip-hop artist, a veteren of the Iraq War, a student of physics, and a very outspoken atheist.  He is controversial even within parts of the Atheist community, mostly with people involved with the Rational Response Squad.  He doesn’t have a lot of the polish that major label hip-hop stars may have [...]

An Atheist’s Lullaby

Our friend Vastleft from Corrente has a new video out, this time a lullaby for all the little nonbelievers out there. And let’s be clear…. No one is born believing in gods (or much of anything else for that matter) so all our children begin life as atheists. You might remember vastleft from his previous [...]

Freethought music: Carmina Burana

We’re going to try to post some more music around here, so for my first entry I’d like to share with you all this recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana:

Carmina Burana: UC Davis

 
This performance is by the University of California, Davis University Chorus and Alumni Chorus, the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Boychoir [...]