Last year this column featured California-based nonprofit Bluegrass Pride celebrating Pride Month with a virtual weekend festival, Porch Pride: A Bluegrass Pride Queer-antine Festival. It raised over $22,000 and enabled each participating musician to be paid $825 for their […]
The Blues Foundation gave out its 42nd annual round of Blues Music Awards in a virtual ceremony broadcasted from Memphis last weekend. Shemekia Copeland won three awards, including the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year honor. Her latest album, […]
New West Records announced a new album from James McMurtry today, his first full-length studio recording since 2015’s Complicated Game. The Horses and the Hounds will be released Aug. 20 and was recorded at Jackson Browne’s Groove Masters studio in […]
In the spring of 2019, I sat down to write a song with my friend Olivia Hally, who was visiting from Melbourne, Australia. We talked about our fear and awe regarding pregnancy and childbirth (neither of us having experienced it) […]
Last year was a wash for music festivals everywhere, but with the floodgates opening we’ll soon be able to see the familiar folks we clamor for and make those new, memorable discoveries once again. Beginning this weekend and concluding in […]
When the world went into lockdown in spring 2020, Chris Thile’s radio show, Live From Here, which he had hosted for four years, was canceled, his touring stopped, and he was both relieved and terrified of the prospects of […]
Every week, dozens of artists launch crowdfunding campaigns. Even within a specific genre, you’re competing with a large number of people in search of help from a finite pot of money. While the majority of campaign pledges come from […]
Neko Case announced a new project this week, but it’s not an album: It’s a newsletter on Substack. Case envisions Entering the Lung as “a series of weekly postcards about loving nature and its crazy ways,” she says in […]
Summertime … and the reading is easy. For many of us, it’s a season when we get the chance to catch up on the books we might have missed recently or to re-read an old favorite. In addition to […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Amythyst Kiah is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for June 2021. Read more about Kiah and her new album, Wary + Strange (out June 18), all month long. Most of us struggling with demons tend to call […]
