JOURNAL EXCERPT: Community Carried Hurray for the Riff Raff Through Grief on 'The Past Is Still Alive'
EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of Hurray for the Riff Raff's nomination for Album of the Year in the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards, we're sharing an excerpt of a profile about them in our Spring 2024 issue of No Depression. You can read the whole
FRESH TRACK: Johnny Irion – 'Sleeping Soldiers of Love'
"Sleeping Soldiers of Love" is the first single from the album of the same title due out Aug. 9 via Blackwing Music. The song features Jeff Bridges and Tim Bluhm of The Mother Hips on vocals along with Patrick Sansone of Wilco and Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes.
BONUS TRACKS: Apple’s ‘Crush!’ Ad Falls Flat With Creatives
Apple debuted a new ad this week that uses a hydraulic press to illustrate how the company compacts a wide variety of tools into a sleek, thin new iPad model. I love a hydraulic press video, to be honest, but I didn’t love this one. Instead of striking me
ALBUM REVIEW: Rick Estrin and the Nightcats Pack a Punch on ‘The Hits Keep Coming’
Muddy Waters once told a 19-year-old Rick Estrin he had that sound. “You playing like a man, boy!,” Waters said as Estrin sat in with his band in Chicago. “I know that sound when I hear it, that’s my sound!”
Estrin, a San Francisco native, had moved to Chicago
THE READING ROOM: Greg Brown on the Power of Care, the Intimacy of Art, and His New Songbook
If it hadn’t been for Gerde’s Folk City’s Johny Porco one day in 1969, Greg Brown might have headed home from his adventure in New York City, where he had gone to try to make it as a folk singer. In the opening story of his just-released
ALBUM REVIEW: Pokey LaFarge Strives for Higher Ground on ‘Rhumba Country’
Pokey LaFarge displays such easy grace when he sings that it’s tempting to consider him a supplier of light entertainment. Don’t believe it. The stirring, deceptively fraught Rhumba Country presents vivid vignettes of restless hearts gripped by desire and loneliness, and yearning for higher ground. If this smooth