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Stacy Chandler

BONUS TRACKS: Still Be Around

BONUS TRACKS: Still Be Around

It’s hard to know where to begin this column. I think I’d better break with convention and begin with the end: This is goodbye. Mostly. Today is my last day on staff at No Depression, after 11 years of various little jobs here that eventually added up to

BONUS TRACKS: Music Shares the Spotlight at the Democratic Convention

BONUS TRACKS: Music Shares the Spotlight at the Democratic Convention

Music had a front-row seat at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with announced guests and plenty of surprises (including Jason Isbell!) getting the spotlight right alongside the politicians speaking. Another way music was featured was during Tuesday night’s traditional roll call, when each state’s delegation

In the Deep End With Ruthie Foster

In the Deep End With Ruthie Foster

Over the course of her nearly three-decade career in music, Ruthie Foster has run a lot of road. Along the way, she’s developed a sound all her own inflected by blues, soul, gospel, and folk that’s earned her multiple Grammy nominations. She’s found the wisdom and courage

BONUS TRACKS: Party Music at the Democratic Convention

BONUS TRACKS: Party Music at the Democratic Convention

The Democratic National Convention gets rolling in Chicago next week, and besides all the politicking, it’s also a party. And what’s a party without music? Among the musicians known to be performing at convention-related events, according to this roundup from The New York Times, are Drive-by Truckers (said

SPOTLIGHT: Wild Ponies Take Time to ‘Breathe’ [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Wild Ponies Take Time to ‘Breathe’ [VIDEO]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild Ponies are No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Dreamers (out Aug. 23 on No Evil Records), in this interview, and look for more all month long. As busy as Wild Ponies have been the past few

BONUS TRACKS: A Gold-Medal Idea for Arts in the Olympics

BONUS TRACKS: A Gold-Medal Idea for Arts in the Olympics

I always learn something new when I watch the Olympics. For five minutes, perhaps, I become a little bit of an expert on shot put, and suddenly I know the names of swimmers from countries I’ve never visited. But I learned something new about the Olympics themselves from Pharrell

‘It Was All Right There’: Alison Brown Converses With the Past for ‘Simple Pleasures’ Reissue

‘It Was All Right There’: Alison Brown Converses With the Past for ‘Simple Pleasures’ Reissue

Like most humans do at some point, Alison Brown got to thinking recently about her younger self. She was poring through the original tapes of her landmark 1990 album Simple Pleasures in preparation for a reissue, and she wondered about the twenty-something who’d recorded it. In a way, the