BONUS TRACKS: Why This Summer’s Arena Shows Are Missing the Mark
There’s a fairly big-name concert in a fairly big amphitheater I’m not attending tonight because the ticket price is too high. I bet you’ve run into that lately too. Of course, we all recognize that music has value (as well as costs to everyone involved in presenting
SPOTLIGHT: Kaitlin Butts on the Little and Big Steps That Led to Life as a Roadrunner
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kaitlin Butts is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Roadrunner! (out June 28 via Soundly Music), in our interview, and look for more all month long.
As I sit on a flight to my cousin’s wedding,
ALBUM REVIEW: Jenny Don’t and the Spurs Dig Into a Western State of Mind
Jenny Don't must have gotten tangled up in Wanda Jackson's DNA somewhere along the line.
Cowpunkery is Don’t’s advertised stock-in-trade, but Jackson’s rockabilly heart bleeds into her music like a busted artery squirting in all directions. For her latest, Broken Hearted Blue, Don&
ALBUM REVIEW: 1965 Concert Recording Finds Georgia Sea Island Singers Connecting With New Audience
The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert by Bessie Jones, John Davis, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young opens with legendary ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s assurances that integration and world peace were imminent.
The condenser mic didn’t pick up what the
ALBUM REVIEW: Hermanos Gutiérrez Explore Their Cosmic Instrumental Roots on 'Sonido Cósmico'
The title of Ecuadorian-Swiss band Hermanos Gutiérrez's new album translates to “cosmic sound.” It’s a bit literal for the type of moody, cross-cultural, instrumental music that the band makes, but the name also seems to capture something deeper, more spiritual between brothers Alejandro and Estevan.
Although Sonido
No Depression Sessions at WinterWonderGrass Tahoe 2024: Shadowgrass
Watch Shadowgrass burn up their fretboards at the Gatekeeper's Museum in Tahoe City, part of our No Depression Sessions series during the WinterWonderGrass Festival. We get to hear two new songs, "Pleasantly Aimless" and "Uncertain Times," from their yet-untitled forthcoming record, and the Ralph