Long a boon to independent artists looking to skip the label system, crowdfunding and direct-to-fan campaigns have become increasingly popular among more mainstream artists as a way to shore up the declining physical media market with add-on rewards like signed […]
Merlefest has just capped its 30th festival, and what a year it was. The festival packed into four days a diverse array of artists, including festival favorites Scythian, stars like James Taylor, old masters like Happy Traum, innovators like Sam Bush […]
It’s that time of the season again. Baseball and flowers blooming, fresh cut lawns and morning dew, new albums being released and music festival travel plans being made. Here in the beautiful Lower Hudson Valley it’s an eighty degree day […]
Clad in a black hat onstage at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern on Thursday night, Sunny Sweeney remarked that she’d move to the Pacific Northwest in a heartbeat, just so she could wear a hat every day. But that wouldn’t feel quite […]
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Over the past few years, The Dustbowl Revival has been making a name for itself with a vibrant mix of vintage Americana sounds. Critics have proclaimed that this eclectic eight-piece “would have sounded utterly at home within […]
This week on No Depression, we’re basking in the fantastic red light glow of Willie Nelson’s album cover for God’s Problem Child. Staff reviewer Don McLeese says it “recalls the era when Willie was at his creative peak.” Also on […]
I first heard of Dallas Wayne from his albums in the early 2000’s on the venerable HighTone Records. Back then, I’d take a chance and buy an album because of the label’s reputation. I was rarely disappointed by HighTone artists. […]
Record Store Day: Hunt No. 1, Sweet Rain The sun greeted Earth Day morning 2017 with warm benevolence and I imagined maybe, just maybe, I could “do it all” today, as my dear paraplegic friend Jim Glynn used […]
If there’s anyone who can write a joyously energetic, infectious, and humorous guide to writing a rock memoir, it’s the queen of rock memoirs, Pamela Des Barres. In her bestselling and now-classic I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, […]
Paul Simon: Words & Music, the wonderful new exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center opens to the public tomorrow, and it’s something else. This traveling show from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is making its only West Coast […]
