The annual conference of music organization Folk Alliance International (FAI) is the world’s largest gathering of the folk music community. Folk music crosses a diverse array of roots music, including Appalachian, Americana, blues, bluegrass, Celtic, Cajun, global roots, old-time, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mark Erelli is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2023. Read more about him and his new album, Lay Your Darkness Down, in our interview, and look for more all month long. It’s easy, as an […]
NPR Music has opened its submission window for its annual Tiny Desk Contest, in which unsigned artists and bands of any genre can submit video of themselves performing an original song in some way that involves a desk. The […]
Please enjoy Swedish Americana artist Jesper Lindell’s session in the second installment of our No Depression x Rootsy Winter Fest series, recorded on location at Värdshuset Hwitan in Falkenberg, Sweden. And a warm tack så mycket to our hosts at Rootsy Live Falkenberg for their hospitality and […]
As longtime music journalist Caryn Rose points out in the preface to her little gem of a book, Why Patti Smith Matters (Texas), the list of Smith’s contributions to art, photography, poetry, and rock and roll is so extensive that […]
Whatever adjective you’d like to apply to it, it’s great news that Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives have announced their first album in six years, Altitude. Coming May 19 on Snakefarm, Altitude was written as Stuart was on […]
I may not know much, but I’m certain I know how to polish a turd. In 2021, COVID-19 was still holding me, my boyfriend, and all other Los Angeles residents hostage. The whole city had a 6 p.m. curfew, […]
During 2022, Mountain Stage presented 24 shows, six of which were away from its home in Charleston, West Virginia, including Boston and its first visit to Kansas. On those 24 shows, Mountain Stage presented 117 roots performers, 11 of […]
While recording sessions in Nashville last year, my audio engineer partner, Juan M. Soria, and I (collectively known as the audio/video production crew I Know We Should), met Anna Lindqvist and Malin Pehrsson from Rootsy Live Falkenberg. When they connected us […]
Just because most of the roots music categories of Grammy awards are given out during the afternoon doesn’t mean they’re any less important. The Premiere Ceremony, which started at 3:30 p.m. ET and is available to stream at live.grammy.com and the Recording […]
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