ALBUM REVIEW: Angel White’s ‘GHOSTS OF THE WEST: THE ALBUM’ is a Luxurious, Clever Debut
The streets of Dallas's Deep Ellum entertainment district hold a deep history of legendary buskers whose influence echoes through music’s greats. During the city’s blues heyday, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lead Belly sang there; more recently, Charley Crockett made a name for himself first playing for
THE READING ROOM: ‘Pretend We’re Dead’ Recalls Women Who Rocked and Changed American Music
In the 1990s, numerous women rockers emerged on the popular music scene, flooding the airwaves of college and independent radio stations with alternative feminist rock and momentarily elevating these women in the rock pantheon. As Tanya Pearson, founder of the Women in Rock Oral History Project, illustrates in her buoyant
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
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
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 and
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 music, the