“If we deal in anything as artists, we must be promoting empathy. That’s what music can do. It can’t change the world, but it can make you feel things for people you’ve never met. It can make you understand the […]
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XPoNential Music Festival Wiggens Park Camden, NJ 7/27-29/2018 This was a benchmark year for the music festival presented by Philly radio station WXPN. This was number 25. It was definitely a cause for celebration. Due to scheduling obligations I […]
This week we’ve got a batch of new releases that offer a twist on their musical genres. We Banjo 3 bring Celtic flavor to bluegrass, Willie Nile applies a singer-songwriter lens to punk, Andrew Combs puts his own stamp on […]
Lukas Nelson is an old soul. Mojo seeps from his veins. Witness this every time he straps on his trusty 1956 Les Paul Junior with his band Promise of the Real (POTR). The tones that emanate from this vintage guitar […]
Riding high, the CRB came rolling into Asbury Park last Thursday night with a lot of horsepower for the Stone Pony. Before the sun even went down, they sidled into the bar and onto the stage and made it real […]
As part of our brand-new Spotlight feature, we asked the Jayhawks, July’s Spotlight band, to make us a video. Nothing fancy, we said, just something that shows the band in daily life. They came back with this rehearsal of the […]
The International Bluegrass Music Association announced today its 2018 awards nominees and hall of fame inductees. Women lead the nomination count, with Becky Buller and Molly Tuttle earning six each. In recent years, both were the first women to win […]
Before the avalanche of big fall books slides over us, let’s take a moment to reflect on the best books of the year so far. Winter and spring are traditionally not big seasons for publishers, but there have been a […]
Austin Coleman’s dreamy country-esque musings have been compared to Jason Isbell and Fleetwood Mac, edging into the marquee marketplace with a distinctive enphisis on tight, melodic songwriting. Today, No Depression has the pleasure of premiering his yearning, earthy ballad “Let […]
Music festivals seem like a dime a dozen these days, and the competition to attract and keep patrons is as fierce as ever, especially within the roots music scene. For Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, there are two key ingredients that […]
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