Sister Rosetta Tharpe is like a golden thread woven through a colorful tapestry of music history. In her own right, as one of gospel’s first major superstars in the 1930s and 1940s, her music stands alone and glimmers like […]
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is like a golden thread woven through a colorful tapestry of music history. In her own right, as one of gospel’s first major superstars in the 1930s and 1940s, her music stands alone and glimmers like […]
These days, most music memoirs tend to be bleary-eyed and bloated chronicles in which artists recount who-slept-with-whom and tote up the quantity of the most mind-expanding, or mind-numbing, drugs swallowed or injected on tour. There’s a requisite tale of […]
Editor’s Note: Olivia Ellen Lloyd is No Depression’s Spotlight Artist for March 2025. Learn more about her life and upcoming album, Do It Myself, to be released March 21, in this feature, and keep an eye out for more all month long. Singer/songwriter Olivia Ellen […]
During the past 24 years promoter and organizer Sixthman has presented over 150 themed festivals on the high seas. Those festivals, which push off from its Miami, Florida home port, now number 28 and permit guests (over 300,000 so […]
This week, Southwest Airlines announced that the Texas-based company will end its highly-favored policy of two free checked bags for each passenger flying. The change is set to take place starting May 28, 2025. According to Reuters, via the US […]
Editor’s Note: Olivia Ellen Lloyd is No Depression’s Spotlight Artist for March 2025. Learn more about her life and upcoming album, Do It Myself, to be released March 21, in this feature, and keep an eye out for more all month long. […]
It’s hard to put a label on Sierra Hull. She grew up in bluegrass, but she and her mandolin have stretched those roots far beyond any one genre. She’s found success as a solo artist, but she revels in […]
March in Arizona means it’s time for Cactus League spring training in Phoenix. Music promoter and festival organizer C3 Presents (Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Bonnaroo, and more) thought it would also be a great time hold a roots […]
Nat Myers It’s been a rough few months for the roots music community: fires, floods, illness, and loss. The latest addition to the list is blues picker extraordinaire Nat Myers, who was recently diagnosed with sarcoma, a rare type […]
In the 1990s, numerous women rockers emerged on the popular music scene, flooding the airwaves of college and independent radio stations with alternative feminist rock and momentarily elevating these women in the rock pantheon. As Tanya Pearson, founder […]
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