SPOTLIGHT: Bella White Blooms Into a Fresh Approach
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bella White is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2023. Look for more about her and her new album, Among Other Things, coming April 21 on Rounder Records, all month long.
“Oh God, they’re everywhere.”
Bella White is looking around her home in Vancouver Island,
ALBUM REVIEW: Nick Waterhouse Wrestles With the Persistence of Memory on ‘The Fooler’
Nostalgia is a trap, an alluring one to be sure, but often a dead end. California’s Nick Waterhouse has been tempting fate over the last decade, exploring a groove that draws heavily from early-’60s R&B and jazz, yet he’s never been a simple retro act.
How Skippy White Built Boston’s Soul Scene
As a radio personality, record store owner, concert promoter, and producer/manager of local artists, 86-year-old Skippy White has dedicated nearly his entire life to supporting soul, blues, and gospel music in Boston. He still remembers the moment that made it all happen.
“I was searching through the
ALBUM REVIEW: boygenius Deepens Their Connection With ‘the record’
What a difference a few years makes.
Back in 2018, the slyly dubbed singer-songwriter supergroup boygenius (consisting of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus) felt like a glorified tour-promoting one-off, with each artist tossing in a few songs for the other to harmonize behind on an
ALBUM REVIEW: Rachel Baiman Finds Solace Within ‘Common Nation of Sorrow’
Make no mistake, Common Nation of Sorrow is a protest album. Rachel Baiman’s follow-up to her 2021 release, Cycles (ND review), bucks against a system of oppression that spans from mental health to housing; economic privilege; and capitalism. Baiman’s songwriting turns the volume up on voices often
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Doctor Moan,’ Peter Case Brings Past Pathways Forward
Freedom is always interesting. Whether you can’t stop watching the most uninhibited figure on the dance floor or the adventurer willing to go farther than most, there’s something exhilarating — even for those of us on the sidelines — about someone who hoists the sails and goes where the wind