Search the internet for “oldest known tool” and you’ll discover it’s some variation of a handheld rock from the aptly named Stone Age, around 2.5 million years ago. But the internet is not necessarily ...

Indiana singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer is aware of the pressure applied by current events on day-to-day life, and she’s addressed social issues throughout her career. But on new album “A Great Wild ...

Back in the olden days, when people listened to music on CDs, I used to store my many disks in CD towers, now-defunct pieces of furniture with slots for those earth-destroying jewel cases. One whole ...

JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: She’s been called a “prairie mystic.” The well-known spirituality writer Parker Palmer has said her songs are “attuned to the still small voice of the soul.” Others have ...

Carrie Newcomer appears on Mountain Stage, recorded live on the campus of the North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minn. Raised in small-town Indiana, Newcomer specializes in capturing what ...

On her latest disc, "The Gathering of Spirits," singer and songwriter Carrie Newcomer writes about the smaller things that make up our everyday lives. Newcomer, currently on tour, visits the Cedarburg ...