The FreshGrass Foundation Partners with Rhiannon Giddens-led Silkroad for New Music
The FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression’s nonprofit publisher) and Silkroad announced a new collaboration today, in which the two organizations will partner to create a complete program of new music titled The American Railroad.
Founded by 18-time Grammy award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, Silkroad is a multi-faceted arts organization
Dave Hause’s ‘Blood Harmony’ Is a Defiant Welcome to Americana
Dave Hause used to be a hardcore kid. Having grown up in Philadelphia, he spent his 20s playing in punk groups like The Loved Ones and The Falcon (a supergroup with members of The Lawrence Arms and Alkaline Trio). Even in his early solo career, which began in 2011 with
The Georgia Thunderbolts Bring a Blast from Rock’s Past
When Kentucky Headhunters singer-guitarist Richard Young first heard The Georgia Thunderbolts onstage, it jolted him right out of his tour bus. He ran to the stage to see what his band was going to have to do to outshine his opening act. “I kinda felt like I had uncovered a
Le Ren Contemplates Relationships on ‘Leftovers’
I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Le Ren (Lauren Spear)’s Leftovers while knitting a blanket for my childhood friend’s baby. The more I listened to the Montreal-based singer-songwriter’s debut LP, the more my knitting-filled listening sessions felt like kismet. Because on Leftovers, Spear touches
THE READING ROOM: Biography Charts Intensity and Influence of B.B. King
Even though the thrill of hearing the king of the blues live has been gone since B.B. King died in May 2015, author Daniel de Visé hopes to help us recall how King ascended to the throne of the blues world in his new biography, King of the Blues:
Ike Reilly Sings a Working Blues on ‘Because the Angels’
“Who will sing these working blues?” Ike Reilly asks at the start of his new album, Because the Angels.
In a sense, this late-blooming Midwestern bard has been doing just that since his audacious 2001 debut, Salesmen and Racists, which introduced an explosively original voice pushing against the confines of