Five Poems to Read on Veteran's Day
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...
top of page
Latest Article
Featured Categories
Books
Poetry
Music
Film
Culture
Community
Read More from the Rabbit Room
Sep 10, 2014
From Smallest Seed: Music inspired by community and conservation
There are so many things to care about, so many broken things that need fixing, so many wounds that need mending, so much good waiting to...
Sep 8, 2014
Behind the Soul EP
This is the second of four EPs from the “Heart & Soul, Flesh & Bone” collection, each individual project being an exploration of a...
Aug 28, 2014
Light Eternal in London
A little over a week ago, my brother Joel and I forayed out into the darkling streets of nine o’clock London to catch a late concert at...
Aug 25, 2014
The Year of the Boss
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” —Jesus of Nazareth Several years ago I decided that I was going to give Paul...
Aug 6, 2014
Rabbit Room Interview: Jill Phillips
[Editor’s note: Jill Phillips has been working on a new album. So, “Matt Conner,” I said, “get you gone and find out what she’s up to.”...
Aug 5, 2014
Song of the Week: “Canaan Bound (Live)”
Andrew Peterson, our faithful Proprietor, is hard at work on a special “best of” collection, re-recording several old favorites selected...
Jul 23, 2014
Interview: Counting Crows
If you’re already a Counting Crows fan, then it’s likely you fell in love with the emotional displays of Adam Duritz somewhere along the...
Jun 18, 2014
Toad the Wet Sprocket: An Appreciation
The year was 1992. George H. W. Bush was the president. Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Metallica, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi were some of the biggest...
Jun 10, 2014
“Before A Fall”
Since creation, God and the earth have seen a lot of stuff, gone through all of human history, and for a while I’ve wondered, “If the...
May 28, 2014
Keep Singing
Some mornings you wake up and you know you’ve tossed and turned the heavy covers right off the bed in the night, and you wonder “What is...
May 20, 2014
New Release: Melanie Penn’s Hope Tonight
[Editor’s note: Melanie Penn’s album Wake Up Love was an instant hit for me, and it’s also one of my very favorite of Ben Shive’s...
May 6, 2014
Release Day: Death in Reverse
Jeremy Casella tends to be the Square Peg that lurks unnoticed in the background, so you’re forgiven if you aren’t a fan yet. But while...
Apr 21, 2014
New Beginning
I’ve wanted to be a musician since I was a kid. Had posters on my walls of Jars of Clay and Steven Curtis Chapman (before I discovered...
Apr 3, 2014
Song by Song: Heart
[Editor’s note: Andy Osenga’s new EP, Heart, is now available. Here’s Andy with a song-by-song breakdown of the record. Enjoy.] “No Heart...
Mar 31, 2014
The Art of Co-writing
“Something You Choose” (unfinished) by Kelly Burton and Ben Shive The Lord must want me to start co-writing. It keeps coming up. Before...
Mar 25, 2014
Twelve-Minute Muse Interview
Recently I sat down for a Skype conversation with Barry at The Twelve-Minute Muse. We talked about several things including, but not...
Mar 24, 2014
Marred By The Story: Gungor’s Let There Be
When bands have the opportunity to create their first concert film, they usually have one of two options—create some sort of slick and...
Mar 5, 2014
Don’t You Want to Thank Someone? Yes, I do.
Twelve years ago at a Wesleyan college in Indiana, I played my first show as Andrew Peterson’s full-time right-hand man. Tonight in...
Mar 4, 2014
Not Right Now
Following is the piece I wrote as an essay for the special edition of my new record, Love Will Have The Final Word. The suffering of...
Feb 27, 2014
With Every Act Of Love
“With Every Act of Love” was the last song to be written for my new record. Knowing I didn’t really have a song that felt like the lead...
bottom of page