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Stacy Chandler

BONUS TRACKS: Study Explores Why Humans Everywhere Make Music

BONUS TRACKS: Study Explores Why Humans Everywhere Make Music

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about music as a uniting force and a universal language. Here at No Depression, we’ve recently published stories about music crossing national and cultural borders, as with the American Patchwork Quartet; music crossing genres, as exemplified by Béla Fleck’s work with

SPOTLIGHT: Kaia Kater Sizes Up What Matters in ‘Maker Taker’ [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: Kaia Kater Sizes Up What Matters in ‘Maker Taker’ [VIDEO]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaia Kater is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May. Learn more about her and her new album, Strange Medicine (out May 17 on Free Dirt Records), in our interview, and look for more all month long. It takes a lot to be a maker. Artists of

‘The Human Condition’: Becky Buller Brings Real Talk About Depression Into Bluegrass

‘The Human Condition’: Becky Buller Brings Real Talk About Depression Into Bluegrass

There’s no shortage of sadness in bluegrass. It’s right there in the mournful fiddles, in the broken-hearted lyrics; it’s baked into the high lonesome sound itself. But often the cause of that constant sorrow is external: Usually, someone left or someone died. Sadness as a mental state,

BONUS TRACKS: Apple’s ‘Crush!’ Ad Falls Flat With Creatives

BONUS TRACKS: Apple’s ‘Crush!’ Ad Falls Flat With Creatives

Apple debuted a new ad this week that uses a hydraulic press to illustrate how the company compacts a wide variety of tools into a sleek, thin new iPad model. I love a hydraulic press video, to be honest, but I didn’t love this one. Instead of striking me

Here Are the Nominees for the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards

Here Are the Nominees for the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards

In a live event from the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville this afternoon, the Americana Music Association revealed the nominees for its 2024 Honors & Awards. Two artists — Sierra Ferrell and Tyler Childers — have nominations in each of the most-coveted categories: Artist, Album, and Song of the

BONUS TRACKS: Box Set Celebrating Black Country Artists Gets 21st-Century Update

BONUS TRACKS: Box Set Celebrating Black Country Artists Gets 21st-Century Update

A quarter century ago, country musician Cleve Francis and college professor Nelson Wilson saw a gap in the story of country music that was being presented to mainstream audiences. To help tell a fuller story, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Warner Music Nashville worked together on

SPOTLIGHT: ‘Fast Food’ and Other Road Realities from Humbird [VIDEO]

SPOTLIGHT: ‘Fast Food’ and Other Road Realities from Humbird [VIDEO]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Humbird is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Right On, in our interview. And don’t miss her recent essay about songs and how they find us. Many of the songs on Humbird’s new album, Right