Just like everything this year, 2020’s Record Store Day is going to work a little differently. Instead of one big day that draws giant (but festive!) lines to your local independent record store, the more than 380 indie-only releases are […]
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David Menconi’s Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, From Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk (UNC) tells tales as colorful as the mountain laurel blossoms in the state’s mountains and […]
Since the time we started dating, I’ve taken great pains to make sure that I didn’t accidentally start a band with my now husband, George Jackson. Despite constant questioning about it from promoters and fans, and egging on from […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Front Country is No Depression‘s Spotlight band for October 2020. Read more about the band and their new album, Impossible World (out Oct. 30), here, and look for more from them later in the month. Front Country […]
No matter how well your favorite festival pulls off a virtual version, it’s never quite the same without those special touches that only come from being there. But the Brooklyn Folk Festival, taking place online Oct. 23-25, has found an […]
In 2018, North Carolina folk-pop band Mipso released Edges Run — and then came very close to splitting up. That album was the product of an edgy, stressful studio session. The four members of the band had been playing together […]
Two years ago, Jeff Tweedy took us on a little tour of his life up till now in his autobiography Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. In what was one […]
The most Scandinavian aspect of many Americans’ lives is probably the IKEA furniture in their homes. But minimalist interior design is just one small way Scandinavian influence finds its way into modern American culture. Before there were Swedish meatballs […]
There are, it seems, only two ages: Before Dylan and After Dylan. As we approach the 60th anniversary of the fateful 1961 winter day when Bob Dylan arrived in New York, it’s significant to note that no single songwriter has […]
The Steve Martin Banjo Prize has been a very big deal in the roots music world for the past 10 years, honoring the instrument’s most talented practitioners, especially those with an eye toward stretching the boundaries and the perceptions of […]
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