[Content warning: general discussions of sexual assault and violence. There is a brief description of a personal experience at the beginning of the third section. I’ll put another reminder at that point in the article.] I. Imagine me, an awkward […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a long feature from our Fall 2016/Speak Up! issue of No Depression in print. We’ve digitized it exclusively for a subscription drive we’re running through June 15. If you want to see us continue to produce great music […]
Earlier this month, The Associated Press reported that Beyoncé submitted Lemonade track “Daddy Lessons” for Grammy consideration, but that the Recording Academy’s country music committee rejected the song. This announcement comes just weeks after Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks performed […]
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” – George […]
It’s been five months since Denver-based Trout Steak Revival won the band competition at the 41st annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and the impact of that moment is just starting to set in. Winning the competition means Trout Steak Revival becomes […]
This recording has been the subject of the most speculation, anticipation and even dread of any major release of this decade, for reasons that are obvious enough. It has been three years now since the political brouhaha that sidelined the […]
Any precocious 12-year-old can write at length, and in iambic pentameter, about being and nothingness. That experience seeds within the nascent songwriter (or critic) the strong prejudice that only by studying the blackness of one’s soul might one possibly create […]
The second record, many would contend, is the hardest one to make. Nothing can ever replace the fresh start of a debut; some artists become superstitious about a “sophomore slump”; and there’s Elvis Costello’s old observation that you have twenty […]
