ALBUM REVIEW: Lettuce Heats Up the Season with Serious Funk on ‘Cook’
There’s one big problem with the new album from the veteran funk sextet Lettuce. Sweet and sunny, Cook is a warm-weather record, perfect for a backyard cookout or a lazy drive with the windows down – not a soundtrack for chilly days. Still, the band’s smooth amalgam of feelgood
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FRESH TRACK: Mavis Staples - “Beautiful Strangers”
Music icon, national treasure, and Grammy award-nominee Mavis Staples’ new album, Sad And Beautiful World, is out now. Produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee), Sad And Beautiful World shows that love is a choice and a force all its own.
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No Depression’s Best of November 2025 Playlist
As the holiday season ramps up, the number of "regular" album releases always seems to slow down. That says nothing to the quality of music, though! And November was full of exciting releases, including multiple tributes to Merle Haggard, and new albums from Colter Wall, The Mammals, Mavis
ALBUM REVIEW: Dude Cervantes and the Panchos Are ‘Ride or Die’
Dude Cervantes and his Panchos are tear- the-joint-down bar band brawlers. The Southern California band's latest, The Ride or Die of Dude Cervantes and the Panchos, on Cervantes’ own Blind Owl label was recorded live at the Hotel Café in Hollywood two years ago. The performance showcases Cervantes
ALBUM REVIEW: Jesse Sykes Casts a Mighty Spell with ‘Forever, I’ve Been Being Born’
Jesse Sykes will not be rushed. On her first album in 14 years (and fifth overall), the Seattle explorer takes a leisurely excursion to the folkier side of psychedelia without pandering to ‘60s nostalgia, raising cosmic questions yet never presuming to provide answers. A beautiful exercise in haunted contemplation, Forever,