SPOTLIGHT: Allison Russell on the Shero With a Thousand Faces and the Rise of the Rainbow Renaissance
EDITOR'S NOTE: Allison Russell is No Depression's Spotlight artist for May 2021. Her debut solo album, Outside Child, is out today on Fantasy Records. Read our interview with her and watch a video performance of her song "Nightflyer" made just for ND readers.
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Watchhouse (Formerly Mandolin Orange) Announces New Album, New Intentions
Just a few weeks in the wake of announcing a change to the band name they’d been using since forming in North Carolina over a decade ago, Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin, now Watchhouse, have announced a new album. Watchhouse will release Aug. 13 on Tiptoe Tiger Music/Thirty
‘Sharecropper’s Son’ a Soul-Stirring Autobiography from Robert Finley
When your first album doesn’t come out until you’re in your 60s, you’ve got a backlog of stories to tell. And if you’ve lived a life like Robert Finley’s, those stories could fill one hundred albums. Alas, Sharecropper’s Son is just Finley’s second
Just the Right Words, Just the Right Songs on Travis Linville’s ‘I’m Still Here’
It doesn't take long to realize just how perfect I'm Still Here is for the time and place in which we live. The second track on Travis Linville's latest record captures the sentiments of a world that is dropping its masks and pursuing some
Heartbreak and Humor Live Side by Side on Bill and the Belles’ ‘Happy Again’
Don’t let the sunny yellow album cover and cheery title fool you: Happy Again is an album about being sad.
The 11 songs written by Bill and the Belles frontman Kris Truelsen in the aftermath of his divorce provide the perfect proving ground for the band’s ability to
Paula Cole Folds History and Music Together for ‘American Quilt’
In the patchwork of American history — and American music — not every piece is pretty. There’s pain woven in, and Paula Cole wanted to reflect that as she chose songs for her new album, American Quilt, out this Friday.
The album features Cole’s interpretations of songs from the Great