How do we describe what darkness looks like when the very absence of light strips our photoreceptors of information? How do we give shape to the experience of depression when its very nature–simultaneously shapeless and shape-shifting–makes it hard to define, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This summer, we’re focusing on themes of immigration and migration in music both here at NoDepression.com and in our print journal, and this story is an excerpt of one that will appear in the upcoming print issue. Don’t miss a […]
Zeke Schein has sold guitars to Patti Smith, Rosanne Cash, Jeff Tweedy, Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, Jack White, Sam Shepard, and Bob Dylan, among many others, from his perch behind the front counter at the legendary Matt Umanov Guitars on […]
Bob Dylan recorded “Girl From the North Country” in New York City in April 1963, and it quickly became one of his best-known short sweet ballads. The tale of a woman living in the “north country fair” who was “once […]
Scottish folk-rock band Frightened Rabbit reported its songwriter and frontman Scott Hutchison missing on Wednesday, and early this morning (in America) Scottish police confirmed that a body recovered in Port Edgar, near the South Queensferry neighborhood of Edinburgh, was his. […]
After wrapping up a midday set of bluesy sun-drenched tunes beneath bright blue skies at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Eric Lindell thanked the crowd and shouted, “Soft shell crab po-boy, here I come!” Food and music are […]
