BONUS TRACKS: RIP Raul Malo and More Roots Music News
Raul Malo, frontman and founder of the genre-crossing roots-rock band The Mavericks passed away on Monday at the age of 60. For the last year and a half, the smooth-voiced tenor battled colon cancer that metastasized into leptomeningeal disease (wherein the cancer spreads into the fluid surrounding the brain and
NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at AMERICANAFEST: Zandi Holup
Ethereal singer-songwriter Zandi Holup met us at The Red Building on Nashville's Music Row during AMERICANAFEST 2025 to share three songs from her debut album Wildflower.
This No Depression session started with a heavy but hopeful song, "Mary Jane," written for a real life friend recovering
ALBUM REVIEW, What We Missed: The Poet Laureate of Your Local Bar Just Might Be Ryan Davis
Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series
ALBUM REVIEW, What We Missed: Nefesh Mountain's Little 'Beacons' Shine Bright
Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series
‘A Community Rather Than a Sound:’ Inside the Crust Punk to Folkie Pipeline
Some of the biggest Americana artists right now have surprising ties to a little-known folk punk community that’s fueled the genre in secret for more than 20 years. The musicians who built this scene came out of anarchic, underground communities tied to radical politics and activism, train hopping and
ALBUM REVIEW, What We Missed: Australia’s Folk Bitch Trio Dazzles on the Debut ‘Now Would Be a Good Time’
Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series