On ‘Age of Apathy,’ Aoife O’Donovan Builds Worlds and Sounds
The process of creating her third solo album Age of Apathy was, for Aoife O’Donovan, just as fascinating as the result. First, a move from New York City to rural central Florida. Then an encounter and collaboration with a music engineer and academic who streamed O’Donovan’s songwriting
Jake Xerxes Fussell Makes a Cosmic Shift on ‘Good and Green Again’
It is no simple feat to dust off traditional stories and polish them for a new era, but Jake Xerxes Fussell is one of the best to ever do it. The song-maker known for transporting us back to a simpler, sepia-toned time is in the midst of a cosmic shift
Janis Ian Affirms Her Legacy with ‘The Light at the End of the Line’
With The Light at the End of the Line, her first collection of new material in 15 years and, apparently, her farewell project, Janis Ian moves seamlessly between activistic declarations and descriptive verse, her melodies crystalline, her voice imbued with hard-won wisdom.
On the album’s guitar-and-vocal opener, “I’m
Greensky Bluegrass Brings Listeners Along for Timely ‘Stress Dreams’
Stress Dreams, the eighth studio album from progressive bluegrass band Greensky Bluegrass, isn’t a quarantine album per se. With lengthy songs and loose arrangements suited for in-person jams, this isn’t the sort of myopic, claustrophobic work we’ve come to associate with the earliest months of the pandemic.
SPOTLIGHT: Anaïs Mitchell on What Was Lost and Found in the ‘Real World’
EDITOR'S NOTE: Anaïs Mitchell is No Depression's Spotlight artist for January 2022. Read our interview with her, and stay tuned for more from Mitchell and her new, self-titled album, out Jan. 28, all month long.
I carried the phrase “real world” around in my back pocket
THE READING ROOM: Interviews Recall Roky Erickson’s Story and Significance
Back in January 1966, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” a single by the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, roared through our speakers with a pugnacious spirit; the echoing garage rocker turned Buddy Holly’s hits, the Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought the Law,” and Them’s “Gloria” inside out with