It's one thing to talk about change, another thing to do something about it.  And one thing to do the easy things, like jump onto a phone bank or join a one-day march, another thing to do something more personal, more exposed.  Welcome to the first playlist of artists getting out of their comfort zones--to beautiful effect, the way we'll all have to if we want to effect real change in our country...

"He had often imagined himself jumping into the air and gliding down asymptotically for miles and miles, just inches above the surface of sidewalks like these.  These sensations, and others like it, had come to be so vivid and real in his mind that as for the rest, so-called reality, he took literally in stride. He was not even entirely surprised when his feet left the ground and he began to rise in the air...