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SPOTLIGHT: The Gift of Art as a Service [ESSAY]
Editor’s Note: Valerie June is No Depression’s Spotlight Artist for April 2025. Learn more about her life and new album, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, which was released April 11, in this feature.
I just got off the phone with Fiona Prine. I couldn’t have said it better.
THROUGH THE LENS: MerleFest 2025 Highlights - Tami Neilson, The War & Treaty, Stephen Wilson Jr., and More
This year’s edition of MerleFest, which took place in Wilkesboro, North Carolina from April 24-27, 2025, was the epitome of how Doc Watson described the festival he and his wife Rosa Lee founded in 1988 to honor their son Merle — “traditional plus.” To make it even more inviting, the
ALBUM REVIEW: Esther Rose's 'Want' Is Her Most Settled Record Yet
Much has been written and poetically waxed about the tricky existential conundrums of the Millennial generation. But no one seems to nail it quite like Esther Rose, who has been quietly building a catalogue of powerful, achingly beautiful songwriting for the past few years. Across lo-fi, twangy foot-stompers and spare
SPOTLIGHT: Valerie June - "I'm In Love" [VIDEO]
Editor’s Note: Valerie June is No Depression’s Spotlight Artist for April 2025. Learn more about her life and new album, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, which was released April 11, in this feature.
Valerie June cozied up in her basement for a solo-acoustic version of her new song, "
FRESH TRACK: Steve Bardwil Band - "Send 'Em Love"
The Steve Bardwil Band releases its debut album, Nothing But Time, produced by iconic 11-time Grammy award-winner Joe Chiccarelli and recorded/mixed at the famed East West Studios in Los Angeles.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Cleary's 'The Bywater Sessions' Celebrates New and Classic Crescent City Music
Jon Cleary is a monster. Devouring the sounds of New Orleans piano legends including Professor Longhair, James Booker, and Tuts Washington from his Cranbook, Kent home, the funky English pianist left for the Crescent City in 1980 in search of fresh hunting grounds for his insatiable musical appetite. Landing a