I stayed up until 4 o’clock Friday morning watching the Twin Cities burn. I saw statues topple in Louisville, marches consume streets in Phoenix, and 40 people get arrested here in New York City. Like Jill Krajewski, senior social editor […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. From couples in driveways and friends in carefully spaced semi-circles along the sidewalk, a cheer […]
Twenty years ago I was the head of sales for an independent record distributor based in Minneapolis that has since faded from existence. When I joined the company, one of our divisions was quite successful in the software industry, providing […]
Levon Helm would have turned 80 this week. It’s been just over eight years since his unmistakable voice fell silent and his steady, propulsive drumming rolled over yonder. Spending the day listening to his music — whether from his years […]
We’re all familiar with the sounds of the banjo, popularized in the American imagination by media highlights like the dead-eyed banjo picker in Deliverance and the band on Hee Haw. But more than anything, you would recognize the iconic, rollicking […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2020 print issue “Tools of the Trade.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, available here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a print […]
Willie Nelson’s first Fourth of July Picnic, in 1973, was inspired by the Dripping Springs Reunion held at the Hurlbut Ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas, the year before, where Nelson and other country music favorites performed. While its promotion and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: “The New Normal” is an occasional series of stories that look into how the coronavirus has affected artists, listeners, and the music business. With their real-world doors shut amid coronavirus-related precautions, many music museums and heritage organizations have […]
Just as some states are starting to slowly open restaurants, salons, and other services, crowdfunding campaigns are starting to come back as well. While, with the exception of the suddenly exploding Patreon, crowdfunding is nowhere near its pre-COVID levels, there […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: BJ Barham is the lead singer of American Aquarium, No Depression’s Spotlight Band for May 2020. Read our feature story about American Aquarium here, and see Barham perform a song from the band’s new album, Lamentations, here. […]
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