ALBUM REVIEW: David Wax Museum Mixes Sounds with Effortless Flair on ‘You Must Change Your Life’
David Wax Museum calls its sound “Mexo-Americana,” but don’t expect a highfalutin cross-cultural experiment. Wax and his wife, Suz Slezak, play exotic-seeming stringed instruments (jarana jarocha, huapanguera) and percussion (donkey jawbone), but don’t prepare for an exercise in dry folklore. On the exhilarating You Must
ALBUM REVIEW: Alison Brown Carves New Contexts for Banjo
On her new album, On Banjo, Alison Brown devotes her usual careful attention to the sonic architecture of tunes. On these 10 tunes, she dwells in the spaces between the notes, listening for ways that her banjo and various other instruments can pick up a pattern and coalesce into grander
SPOTLIGHT: Durand Jones Hits Home with ‘Wait Til I Get Over’
EDITOR’S NOTE:Durand Jones is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for May 2023. Look for more about him and his new album, Wait Til I Get Over, out May 5 on Dead Oceans, all month long.
If you thought you knew Durand Jones as an artist, think again.
For
ALBUM REVIEW: California Creeps Into Angelica Rockne’s Sound on ‘The Rose Society’
Five years in the making, Angelica Rockne’s sophomore effort, The Rose Society, is worth the wait. Her debut, Queen of San Antonio, cemented Rockne as a stalwart of cosmic country. Rockne’s move to Los Angeles made sense, and The Rose Society chronicles Rockne’s romance and disillusionment with
No Depression’s Best of April 2023 Playlist
Legendary guitarist Doc Watson would have turned 100 years old this spring, so it felt right to kick off the Best of the Month playlist with the one and only Dolly Parton honoring him on a tribute record that came out last month. Many other classic roots musicians like the
ALBUM REVIEW: Eilen Jewell Drives Forward with ‘Get Behind the Wheel’
Whether forging original work, including on her stellar 2006 debut, 2011’s Queen of the Minor Key, and 2015’s Sundown Over Ghost Town, or offering cogent interpretations as with 2010’s Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn and 2017’s Down Hearted Blues, Eilen Jewell has consistently asserted