ALBUM REVIEW: Tony Trischka’s 'Earl Jam 2' Pays Tribute to Bluegrass Banjo Great, Earl Scruggs
On his own, Tony Trischka is considered one of the world’s foremost banjo players. He is comfortable paying tribute to tradition of bluegrass pioneers while also stepping outside the box and innovating. To his own substantial body of work, Trischka adds two mammoth tribute projects: the 2023, Grammy-nominated Earl
A Postcard from Joshua Burnside
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s “Postcard From” series features dispatches from artists' daily lives on the road, in the studio, or anywhere in between. Our next installment comes from Belfast-based folk singer-songwriter Joshua Burnside, whose new album It's Not Going to be Okay was written in
ALBUM REVIEW: Sweet Petunia Gets Raw and Real about Mental Health on 'Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown'
“Heels” is a tale of insomnia, told patiently; until it’s not.
Maddy Simpson and Mairead Guy of Sweet Petunia sing of lying awake all night, desperate for sleep and yet wary of recurring nightmares. In the end, “the stars, they fade. The streets start shining / Above the trees, the
THROUGH THE LENS: Baseball & Roots Music — Two Great American Pastimes Converge At The Innings & Extra Innings Festivals
What is more American than roots music and baseball? To celebrate both, the Innings Festival (February 20-22, 2026) and Extra Innings Festival (February 27 & 28, 2026), were held at Tempe Beach Park in Tempe, Arizona during baseball’s spring training.
While baseball originated in the 1840s, the first officially
BONUS TRACKS: No Depression Fellowships and More Roots Music News about Utah Phillips, from Shakey Graves, and More
No Depression is thrilled to announce two incredible writing opportunities funded by our nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation, in honor of our 30th year of publishing. Two established writers, authors, and previous No Depression contributors, Erin Osmon and Annie Zaleski, have been awarded the inaugural No Depression Criticism Fellowships. They
NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at Lucinda's: Steve Earle
We are proud to present this installment of our No Depression Session series in partnership with NYC honky-tonk Lucinda’s and Hiatus Tequila. When Lucinda Williams teamed up with industry lifers Laura McCarthy and Kelley Swindall to create a Southern country bar in NYC’s East Village with a killer