Today, I’m excited to report, we’re opening up the store for preorders and subscriptions, as we get ready to ship our Spring 2016 print journal on May 2. While we returned to the page last fall with ND’s first print edition […]
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Releasing live albums, bootleg boxes, EPs, and full-length studio albums at a rapid pace in recent years, Graham Parker appears to be at the most prolific stage of his career. Nonetheless, he’s not convinced he’s done enough. “I don’t think I’ve […]
With 20 years on the road and over a dozen albums, the Drive-By Truckers is still running strong. Front-runners in the early alt-country scene, the band has consistently produced provocative, original music, often laced with social and political commentary. After […]
About the time Woody Guthrie would have been singing lullabies to his daughter Nora, a preteen Del McCoury was sitting in a pew at the Missionary Baptist Church listening to his mom and dad sing. Occasionally, when she got a […]
This is the story of a great rock and roll-based musical collaboration. It features a soulful blend of bluesy, earth-shaking rock and roll, skillfully built by musical journeyman Jon Tiven, and a lyrical call to meaning, self-discovery, and inner peace, drawn from lyrics by veteran […]
Perfect acoustics. That’s my number one wish, once I’ve forked out the cash for a live show. I can put up with lousy seats (or the lack of them), poor vantage points, people talking (well, almost!), short shows, costly admission […]
The life and death of horns in Americana music produced by Caucasians can be traced back to two classic rockers, Bruce Springsteen and Glenn Frey. Watching Springsteen on his River tour last month in Seattle, Jake Clemons—succeeding his late uncle […]
I grew up in a musical family. Music was all over the place. Early in childhood, before my older siblings matured out of control, we had family sing-alongs. Tunes like “In the Pines, Shenandoah, Cimmarron, You Are My Sunshine”, so […]
The festival market has gotten so saturated that, once the unofficial kickoff to festival season begins with Indio, California’s Coachella, you can count on at least one festival every weekend throughout the Summer. While there are plenty of genre-specific festivals […]
Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and PledgeMusic have been a boon to independent artists eager to bypass the traditional label system and release music they retain control of. But the downside to these sites is that so many artists use them, […]
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