THROUGH THE LENS: Australia’s Byron Bay Bluesfest Charges Back Full Strength for 2023
Byron Bay Bluesfest is Australia’s premier roots music festival, regularly named by both artists and the music industry as one of the world’s best. This was the first Bluesfest with a full roster of international artists since 2019, as the 2020 and 2021 editions were abruptly canceled due
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Cadence,’ Cinder Well Finds Beauty in the Dark Places
Celtic mythology speaks of “thin places,” locations where the barrier between this world and the otherworld is permeable. Cadence, the new album from Cinder Well, is filled with thin places, moments when a strummed chord or a sung note is left to hang for just a second or two. It&
SPOTLIGHT: Bella White on the Tiny Universes in Songs
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bella White is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2023. Learn more about her and her new album, Among Other Things, out this Friday, in our interview, and look for more throughout the month.
After the release of my first album in 2020, I recorded a
FRESH TRACK: Scott McMicken and The Ever-Expanding – 'What About Now'
Scott McMicken has always thrived on switching things up. As a founding member of Dr. Dog, McMicken and his bandmates consistently explored new sounds and new ways of writing songs across 10 gleefully eclectic albums before their 2021 hiatus. With Shabang, out now via ANTI-, comes the debut album from
THE LONG HAUL: Unsung Heroes of the Folk Scene
I just spent a beautiful 24 hours in Shetland, an experience I don’t take for granted. I love getting to go to tucked-away places while on tour, and for a fiddle player, Shetland is one of those legendary places. I’m glad to have finally made it up
BONUS TRACKS: The Drive-by Truckers Take a Do-Over on ‘The Dirty South'
Sometimes, the album a band has in mind and the album a label wants to put out aren’t exactly the same thing. Compromises are made, and the label usually wins in the end, being that it holds the purse strings. After that, everyone mostly moves along, but, as in