No Depression Sessions at Rootsy Winter Fest: Jesper Lindell
Please enjoy Swedish Americana artist Jesper Lindell’s session in the second installment of our No Depression x Rootsy Winter Fest series, recorded on location at Värdshuset Hwitan in Falkenberg, Sweden. And a warm tack så mycket to our hosts at Rootsy Live Falkenberg for their hospitality and for organizing
THE READING ROOM: Details and Dedication Make the Argument for ‘Why Patti Smith Matters’
As longtime music journalist Caryn Rose points out in the preface to her little gem of a book, Why Patti Smith Matters (Texas), the list of Smith’s contributions to art, photography, poetry, and rock and roll is so extensive that just her poetry and her influences on a generation
ALBUM REVIEW: Yo La Tengo’s ‘This Stupid World’ Makes a Beautiful Noise
Following a pair of experiments that kept them busy during the pandemic in 2020 — the ambient soundscapes of We Have Amnesia Sometimes and their brief yet sublime EP of covers, Sleepless Nights — Yo La Tengo return to the beautiful noise of 2018’s There’s a Riot Going On (ND
ALBUM REVIEW: Black Belt Eagle Scout Layers Realizations on ‘The Land, The Water, The Sky’
Albums are often referred to as snapshots in time, a cataloging of an artist’s life during the years in which a set of songs were written. For Katherine Paul, the better term is “realizations.”
Paul has taken to the studio and stage as Black Belt Eagle Scout over the
Marty Stuart Gears Up for New Album ‘Altitude’
Whatever adjective you’d like to apply to it, it’s great news that Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives have announced their first album in six years, Altitude.
Coming May 19 on Snakefarm, Altitude was written as Stuart was on the road with Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn as
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Homemaker,’ Jill Barber Finds the Epic in Everyday Life
With her latest album, Homemaker, Jill Barber backburners the vintage jazz and pop leanings of her midcareer work and the sociopolitical slants of 2018’s Metaphora, offering a set of tightly crafted folk tunes that address domesticity, parenthood, and conjugal dynamics. The result is an accessible sequence that exudes wisdom