ND Critics Poll: Our Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018
Around here, the Year-End Readers Poll (we call it YERP) is a highlight of the year. This time, 10,201 No Depression readers weighed in, creating a wide-ranging list of must-hear albums that came out in 2018. But we always like to give a special spotlight as well to the
Christmas as Folk: Why Holiday Standards Belong in the Folk Songbook
There are plenty of topics for spirited musical debate out there: Are you a Beatles person or a Stones person? Who are the pillars of hip-hop? Which city yielded the most authentic type of blues? Did video truly kill the radio star?
Yet very few subjects generate as heated a
The FLESH EATERS are back!
The FLESH EATERS are back! Yep Roc Records has released a new record by this classic LA band lead by lyricist, poet and author Chris D.
Now I have to confess, I am a huge FLESH EATERS fan. I’ve been listening to their music since their first album, “No
Lee Michaels: From Soul to Shrimp
Back in the day, he was a white soul prince with a top ten hit that still gets airplay on the classic oldies wavelengths. Today, Lee Michaels is a shrimp mogul, proprietor of Killer Shrimp, a sprawling 5,000-square-foot restaurant in Marina Del Rey Harbor that serves as the anchor
Your 50 Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018
Starting in January, with releases from folks like Anderson East, First Aid Kit, Steep Canyon Rangers, Mary Gauthier, and Calexico, and all the way through the past few weeks, 2018 has seemed like a nonstop firehose blast of new roots music. And we’re not complaining! There wasn’t a
A Revival of our Own: Why We Just Can't Quit the Man of Constant Sorrow
Look around you, and you’ll find the world is changing faster than you can blink. Everything from politics to technology to the weather, even, is evolving and metastasizing in a way we’ve never seen before.
Those of us in the millennial generation grew up being thrashed by the