ALBUM REVIEW: David Childers Puts Hellfire Aside for ‘Melancholy Angel’
To hell, with snakes, could be David Childers' mantra. Since his 1994 debut, Godzilla, He Done Broke Out, he's been a hellish tour guide, leading a series of bands from the Mount Holly Hellcats to the Modern Don Juans to the Serpents of Reformation, now doing business
Lucinda Williams Announces New Album ‘Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart’
As we eagerly await Lucinda Williams’ memoir, coming later this month (ND story), it turns out there’s new music on the way, too.
The album Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart is slated for release June 30 via Highway 20 Records and Thirty Tigers. It’s Williams’ first
THROUGH THE LENS: At Big Ears 2023, All Roads Lead to the Incredible
For one four-day weekend in the spring, when the dogwoods are blossoming, music lovers from all over the world and of virtually every genre converge on Knoxville, Tennessee, to attend the Big Ears Festival. With a dozen indoor venues that stretch from one end of downtown to the other,
FRESH TRACK: Meredith Moon – 'Constellations'
Growing up in a musical family is not uncommon for many emerging artists, but for Meredith Moon, living in the shadow of her father Gordon Lightfoot’s spotlight, the expectations were onerous. A five-time Mariposa Folk Festival performer, hiding her lineage with the simple description as a “multi-instrumentalist
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.