JOURNAL EXCERPT: Winter 2022 Guest Editor Margo Price's Gold Star
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was the Screen Door — the final page — of the Winter 2022 issue of No Depression's quarterly journal. Margo Price served as the inaugural guest editor, writing this essay and helping conceptualize another feature story in the issue. Get the issue here or subscribe
THROUGH THE LENS: Sights and Sounds of the Future at the 2023 Folk Alliance Conference
The annual conference of music organization Folk Alliance International (FAI) is the world’s largest gathering of the folk music community. Folk music crosses a diverse array of roots music, including Appalachian, Americana, blues, bluegrass, Celtic, Cajun, global roots, old-time, singer-songwriter, spoken word, traditional, zydeco, and the many
No Depression Sessions at Rootsy Winter Fest: Jesper Lindell
Please enjoy Swedish Americana artist Jesper Lindell’s session in the second installment of our No Depression x Rootsy Winter Fest series, recorded on location at Värdshuset Hwitan in Falkenberg, Sweden. And a warm tack så mycket to our hosts at Rootsy Live Falkenberg for their hospitality and for organizing
THE READING ROOM: Details and Dedication Make the Argument for ‘Why Patti Smith Matters’
As longtime music journalist Caryn Rose points out in the preface to her little gem of a book, Why Patti Smith Matters (Texas), the list of Smith’s contributions to art, photography, poetry, and rock and roll is so extensive that just her poetry and her influences on a generation
ALBUM REVIEW: Yo La Tengo’s ‘This Stupid World’ Makes a Beautiful Noise
Following a pair of experiments that kept them busy during the pandemic in 2020 — the ambient soundscapes of We Have Amnesia Sometimes and their brief yet sublime EP of covers, Sleepless Nights — Yo La Tengo return to the beautiful noise of 2018’s There’s a Riot Going On (ND
ALBUM REVIEW: Black Belt Eagle Scout Layers Realizations on ‘The Land, The Water, The Sky’
Albums are often referred to as snapshots in time, a cataloging of an artist’s life during the years in which a set of songs were written. For Katherine Paul, the better term is “realizations.”
Paul has taken to the studio and stage as Black Belt Eagle Scout over the