SPOTLIGHT: Madi Diaz on Mining the Soul for Songs
EDITOR’S NOTE: Madi Diaz is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2024. Read more about her and her new album, Weird Faith, here, and look for more all month long.
It’s such a weird thing, starting a record. It’s almost like starting a conversation that you
BONUS TRACKS: Remembering Mojo Nixon + More of the Week’s Music News
It’s hard to imagine a voice like Mojo Nixon’s ever being silenced, but here we are. Nixon, 66, died Wednesday from a “cardiac event” aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise, according to a statement from his family. Nixon merged the speed, loudness, and brashness of punk with roots music
Kacey Musgraves Finds Fresh Footing for New Album ‘Deeper Well’
As you might have heard Kacey Musgraves sing in a cryptic commercial aired during Sunday night’s Grammy Awards broadcast, “My Saturn has returned” — and so, it was firmly announced today, has Musgraves, with a new album coming next month.
Deeper Well, surfacing on March 15 on Interscope/MCA Nashville,
ALBUM REVIEW: Tinsley Ellis Strips Down Songs for ‘Naked Truth’
Tinsley Ellis has finally come unplugged. It took 21 albums to do it, but on Naked Truth the Atlanta-based bluesman has forsaken his Stevie Ray Vaughan amp settings for an acoustic gathering of originals and a sampling of a couple of old masters, including Son House's chilling “Death
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires Ending Marriage
People magazine is reporting that Americana royal couple Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires are ending their marriage.
Isbell filed for divorce from Shires on Dec. 15, according to People’s review of court documents. They have one daughter, Mercy, who is 8 years old.
Isbell and Shires married in 2013,
THE READING ROOM: ‘Badass’ Women in Rock Stake Their Claim, But Is It Feminism?
How do women in rock shape feminism, how does feminism shape women in rock? The answer is not readily apparent in music journalist Katherine Yeske Taylor’s new book, She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism. Rather, she applies the term loosely to track the ways that women