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A feeling that has frequently dominated Mary Chapin Carpenter's shows is reflection. An artist who bares her soul through her songs sends audiences home musing over the emotions she so lucidly expressed. Reflection was the theme of Carpenter’s London appearance, deepened this time by her new album

How do we describe what darkness looks like when the very absence of light strips our photoreceptors of information? How do we give shape to the experience of depression when its very nature--simultaneously shapeless and shape-shifting--makes it hard to define, let alone fight? Some musicians use metaphors

EDITOR'S NOTE: This summer, we're focusing on themes of immigration and migration in music both here at NoDepression.com and in our print journal, and this story is an excerpt of one that will appear in the upcoming print issue. Don’t miss a thing! Subscribe

Scottish folk-rock band Frightened Rabbit reported its songwriter and frontman Scott Hutchison missing on Wednesday, and early this morning (in America) Scottish police confirmed that a body recovered in Port Edgar, near the South Queensferry neighborhood of Edinburgh, was his. The apparent suicide comes in fairly quick succession of

Last weekend, Barbara Martin Stephens, at age 83 an energetic, warm, articulate woman, came to the Sertoma Bluegrass Festival in Florida to tell the story of her life with “The King of Bluegrass,” Jimmy Martin. Her book, Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler: My Life with Jimmy Martin,

For three years, the prevailing theme of my Best I’ve Ever Seen column has been musicians talking about the best concerts they attended by other artists. To mix it up a bit, I decided to broaden the theme and from time to time allow readers to learn which albums