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The Barefoot Movement Bends Bluegrass Toward Fresh Territory on ‘Pressing Onward’

The Barefoot Movement Bends Bluegrass Toward Fresh Territory on ‘Pressing Onward’

If you catch The Barefoot Movement at a bluegrass festival, you’re going to get the standard blazing fast instrumental runs in traded-off solos, beautiful harmonies, love songs and heartbreak songs. But what you won’t get is bored. Members of the band, founded in North Carolina in 2006, are

AJ Lee and Blue Summit Drive Bluegrass Onward and Upward on ‘I’ll Come Back’

AJ Lee and Blue Summit Drive Bluegrass Onward and Upward on ‘I’ll Come Back’

They say you’ve got to know the rules before you can break the rules, and bluegrass is the perfect proving ground for how far that mindset can go. AJ Lee and Blue Summit have been honing their bluegrass bona fides for most of their young lives — including several individual

Kacey Musgraves Reveals New Album: ‘star-crossed’

Kacey Musgraves Reveals New Album: ‘star-crossed’

You didn’t think Kacey Musgraves was just going to release an album like a regular artist, did you? The six-time Grammy winner announced today, after several days of social media hint-dropping, that her fourth album, star-crossed, is coming Sept. 10 — as is a companion film that will run on

Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies at Age 68

Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies at Age 68

Renowned Texas singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died in Nashville at the age of 68, Rounder Records has confirmed. No cause of death was announced. Griffith, who released 18 studio albums (two of her final three came out on Rounder) over the course of her five-decade career, performed in a range

SPOTLIGHT: Amythyst Kiah Sends a Flare from Rock Bottom in 'Firewater' [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Amythyst Kiah Sends a Flare from Rock Bottom in 'Firewater' [VIDEO]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Amythyst Kiah is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2021. Her new album, Wary + Strange, comes out this Friday on Rounder Records. Read our interview with Kiah here, and look for more about her and the new record all month long. “Melancholy always seemed to work

BONUS TRACKS: Honoring What John Prine and Levon Helm Gave Us, and Celebrating LGBTQ+ Music and History

BONUS TRACKS: Honoring What John Prine and Levon Helm Gave Us, and Celebrating LGBTQ+ Music and History

The family of the late, great John Prine has announced a weeklong series of concerts and events in his honor this fall. You Got Gold: Celebrating the Life & Songs of John Prine will take place at multiple locations in Nashville Oct. 3-10, wrapping up on what would have been

Watchhouse (Formerly Mandolin Orange) Announces New Album, New Intentions

Watchhouse (Formerly Mandolin Orange) Announces New Album, New Intentions

Just a few weeks in the wake of announcing a change to the band name they’d been using since forming in North Carolina over a decade ago, Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin, now Watchhouse, have announced a new album. Watchhouse will release Aug. 13 on Tiptoe Tiger Music/Thirty