Stacy Chandler

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

In the patchwork of American history — and American music — not every piece is pretty. There’s pain woven in, and Paula Cole wanted to reflect that as she chose songs for her new album, American Quilt, out this Friday. The album features Cole’s interpretations of songs from the Great

If you live anywhere near water, chances are you’ve seen one: a great blue heron flying low against the sky, silent as it soars along a straight line toward its destination. Sarah Jarosz has seen them too — so often, and at so many important moments in her life, that

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sara Watkins is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for March 2021. Her new album, Under the Pepper Tree, comes out this Friday on New West. Read about Watkins and Under the Pepper Tree in our feature story, and don’t miss her essay here. Under the Pepper

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sara Watkins is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for March 2021. Look for more about her and her new album, Under the Pepper Tree (out March 26), all month long. The pepper trees that grow in Southern California loom large in Sara Watkins’ childhood memories. “Growing up,