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No Depression's Best of February 2025 Playlist

No Depression's Best of February 2025 Playlist

February was particularly frigid in the Northeast, with multiple snowstorms battering New York City and temperatures dropping well below zero in Montreal during the Folk Alliance International annual conference (recaps from which can be found here and here). Luckily, last month saw enough fresh, new music to keep our spirits

ALBUM REVIEW: On 'Foxes in the Snow' Jason Isbell returns to 'Southeastern' Simplicity

ALBUM REVIEW: On 'Foxes in the Snow' Jason Isbell returns to 'Southeastern' Simplicity

For an artist to get in the studio and record an entire set in just a few days on a single acoustic guitar, one might assume the music is calling with some urgency. But for Jason Isbell’s latest solo outing Foxes in the Snow, there’s a slow and

ALBUM REVIEW: Mike Farris Delivers Soul from Muscle Shoals

ALBUM REVIEW: Mike Farris Delivers Soul from Muscle Shoals

Mike Farris was born to record in Muscle Shoals. If you close your eyes when you’re listening to Farris’s new album, The Sound of Muscle Shoals, you’d swear you’re listening to Clarence Carter, Wilson Pickett, or Joe South. Drenched in the bone-shaking power of soul

THROUGH THE LENS: Folk Alliance International & Wintergrass Gatherings Bring Roots Music to the Forefront

THROUGH THE LENS: Folk Alliance International & Wintergrass Gatherings Bring Roots Music to the Forefront

This week’s column takes us, in the throes of winter, up north, where two roots music events occurred on the same overlapping weekend: Folk Alliance International in Montreal, Canada (February 19-23, 2025); and Wintergrass in Bellevue, Wash. (20-23, 2025). In addition to presenting full schedules of live

ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Blue Sky Sundays’, JD Clayton Shows Us the Way Back Home

ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Blue Sky Sundays’, JD Clayton Shows Us the Way Back Home

You can’t go home again. Or, at least, that’s what they say. That’s because home is never really how you remember it, as if someone came in while you were away and moved your trusted memories a half-inch. There’s something different about it all, about

ALBUM REVIEW: Them Coulee Boys' 'No Fun in the Chrysalis,' Highlights the Importance of Appreciating Every Moment

ALBUM REVIEW: Them Coulee Boys' 'No Fun in the Chrysalis,' Highlights the Importance of Appreciating Every Moment

Within seconds of their newest LP's beginning, Them Coulee Boys deliver the album’s titular phrase, “no fun in the chrysalis," shortly after, they follow with the declaration: “Change is a funny thing / Pain can make you sing.” It’s a fitting statement of intent for an

SPOTLIGHT: Mountains by Cristina Vane [ESSAY]

SPOTLIGHT: Mountains by Cristina Vane [ESSAY]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Cristina Vane is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2025. Read more about her and her new album, Hear My Call, out Feb. 21, in this feature and check out this ND exclusive video. Mountains are the buckling points of the earth’s tension, a visual