Stacy Chandler

Jim Miller, part of the roots music trio Western Centuries and a founding member of Donna the Buffalo, died last week from cardiac arrest while on tour in Boston. “We’re all absolutely heartbroken and speechless right now,” Western Centuries posted on its social media channels Friday. “Jim was family,

We’ve all likely felt a bit scattered lately, but there aren’t a lot of songs to soundtrack that. But Andrew Bird has just the thing with his new single, “Atomized,” inspired by Joan Didion’s essays about the “atomization” of life in 1960s America, which she saw as

After canceling a string of shows recently, Chuck Prophet announced on social media Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with lymphoma. The 58-year-old singer-songwriter reassured fans that “the prognosis is good,” and he’s even cleared by his doctor to play some shows in the near future, though while wearing

On New Year’s Day, Anaïs Mitchell had a deadline on her mind. Specifically, a deadline for an essay she was writing for No Depression, where she is the Spotlight artist for the month of January. She had a topic in mind — memories of our pre-smartphone existence and what we

They say the songs you hear in adolescence are the ones that stick with you, resonating over the rest of your life and, of course, embedding their lyrics forever in your brain. For American Aquarium bandleader BJ Barham, those songs were the country radio hits pouring out of the family