FRESH TRACK: Ben Folds – 'Exhausting Lover'
On What Matters Most, his first album since 2015, Ben Folds delivers a set of 10 songs both bold and timely. The cinematic work examines the tragic and the absurd in equal measures as it reckons with hope and despair, gratitude and loss, identity and perspective in a delivery only
No Depression Sessions at DelFest: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
True to her California roots, the first song in Molly Tuttle’s No Depression Session from DelFest 2023 is “El Dorado,” partly inspired by a childhood trip to the Sierra Nevada foothills to learn about the 1840s California gold rush. One of the most endearing veins to Tuttle’s songwriting
BONUS TRACKS: Miranda Lambert, That Small Town Song, and a Lost Suit Found
Let’s get the elephants in the room out of the way. If you’ve been online at all this week, you’ve heard that Miranda Lambert stopped mid-song to scold some fans for taking selfies during a show last weekend and Jason Aldean released a video for a clichéd
SPOTLIGHT: Gabe Lee, The Road, and ‘The Wild’ [VIDEO]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gabe Lee is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for July 2023. Learn more about him and his new album, Drink the River, in our interview, and look for more all month long.
On his new album, Drink the River, Gabe Lee wants to nudge people out of
ALBUM REVIEW: Daryl Mosley Highlights Lessons from the Past on ‘A Life Well Lived’
Daryl Mosley spins reliably comforting stories about various facets of daily life. On his third album, A Life Well Lived, his songs cast a look back at the ways we’re shaped by people and places as well as by the lessons our families, friends, and others have taught us.
ALBUM REVIEW: Cut Worms' Self-Titled Stands As a Reminder of Sweetness
In 2020, Max Clarke, who records under the name Cut Worms, released a kind of opus. A double album steeped in detail, Nobody Lives Here Anymore listened like a thick tome, filled with stories of a bygone era. It suited the moment, when there was nothing but idle time to