THROUGH THE LENS: Roots Music Roars Through Austin, Texas During SXSW 2025
Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, South by Southwest (SXSW) has become, like its host city, many things to many people. The event has grown to incorporate tech, fashion, design, film, television, exhibitions, comedy, education, gaming and other cultural endeavors as well as music.
The schedule of the Music Festival
Introducing No Depression’s Spring 2025 Journal + Playlist
EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our Winter 2024 quarterly journal, featuring the best and most timely stories in roots music today. Buy the Winter 2024 issue in print or digitally here.
Music has taken me all over the world. Last year, I went to Kansas
ALBUM REVIEW: Daughter of Swords' Alex Sauser-Monnig Uncovers New Sounds on 'Alex'
BONUS TRACKS: Michael Hurley Passes Away at 83 and More Roots Music News from Bruce Springsteen and Kelsey Waldon
The roots music community was stunned to hear about the passing of “outsider folk” singer-songwriter Michael Hurley yesterday at the age of 83 years old. The news was ostensibly broken by Brooklyn-based venue Union Pool, which posted a photo of musician in front of its red, velvet stage curtain and
ALBUM REVIEW: With 'Believer,' Sister Ray Blends Pensiveness and Buoyancy
With their latest set, Believer, Ella Coyes assumes a more aerial view than on their 2022 debut, Communion, frequently putting distance between themself and their subject matter. John Nellen’s production MO complements Coyes’ narrative style and this new, detached perspective, infusing the tracks with buoyancy, while never diluting Coyes’
THE READING ROOM: Geoffrey Himes Posits The Opposite of Outlaw Country in New Book 'In-Law Country'
What do Brian Ahern, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Rosanne Cash, and Guy and Susanna Clark have in common? What unites them musically, or at least brings them together for songwriting rounds and guitar pulls and trading places in one another’s bands? What was it is about the