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Hilary Saunders

Hilary Saunders

The Good Ones Share Their Rwanda With The World

The Good Ones Share Their Rwanda With The World

In this hellacious year of our lord, it seems like we mortals are living and reliving humanity’s worst moments on earth with nauseating frequency. Among the already tired political, social, and environmental tropes rotating through an endless news cycle, 2019 also marks 25 years since the Rwandan genocide — a

Lankum’s 'The Livelong Day' Challenges the Confines of Traditional Music

Lankum’s 'The Livelong Day' Challenges the Confines of Traditional Music

Despite a penchant for song collection and resurrection and instrumentation that references the rich culture of their island nation, Irish four piece Lankum is not a traditional band. Based in Dublin and comprised of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and Radie Peat, Lankum creates moody songs that simultaneously

'The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions' Box Set Offers an In-Depth Look at Cuban Roots

'The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions' Box Set Offers an In-Depth Look at Cuban Roots

Camila Cabello may have opened the 2019 Grammy Awards with her song called “Havana,” but the theatrical performance featuring rapper Young Thug, singers J Balvin and Ricky Martin, and trumpet player Arturo Sandoval barely scratched the surface of the scope of Cuban music. Sandoval, a Cuban-American trumpet player, pianist and

State Champion Rekindles Independent Alt-Country

State Champion Rekindles Independent Alt-Country

State Champion, an alt-country quartet with members flung between Louisville and Chicago, isn’t exactly a new band. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ryan Davis, drummer Sal Cassato, bassist Mikie Poland, and violinist Sabrina Rush formed the band more than 10 years ago while still in art school. Since then, they’ve

The Strengths and Subtleties of Singer-Songwriter Lorkin O’Reilly

The Strengths and Subtleties of Singer-Songwriter Lorkin O’Reilly

The release day for Scottish-American singer-songwriter Lorkin O’Reilly’s debut LP Heaven Depends came and went without much fanfare. It’s not a bombastic record, by any means, but rather one of soft folk music made with a quite pride. It might have been easy to miss in the

A Note on Music, Mental Health, and Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison

A Note on Music, Mental Health, and Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison

Scottish folk-rock band Frightened Rabbit reported its songwriter and frontman Scott Hutchison missing on Wednesday, and early this morning (in America) Scottish police confirmed that a body recovered in Port Edgar, near the South Queensferry neighborhood of Edinburgh, was his. The apparent suicide comes in fairly quick succession of two

Your 50 Favorite Albums of 2017

Your 50 Favorite Albums of 2017

One of the most surprising elements of the results of this year's annual ND Year-End Readers Poll was the number of artists who wouldn't necessarily fall into the category of roots music. No Depression readers, you lifted Ryan Adams — who hasn't felt like Americana