As we bound toward another trip around the sun, it’s customary in our world to take a look back on the music that moved us most in the year behind us. So, we asked you – our readers – to […]
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Here we are at the end of another year, and it was quite a year in roots music. Here at No Depression, we returned to the printed page with the first of many magazines to come. (I’m currently in the baby stages […]
Most people know that “favorite” and “best” are not synonyms. Likewise, most people, I think, are also aware that the majority of the “best of” lists that pop up towards the end of each year are really the writer’s favorites. With […]
For me, the year in music was defined by the veterans doing what they do best, and the youngsters running the gamut from homage to innovation. If there’s a common thread running through my year end list, it’s a sense […]
As we head further into autumn, toward another World Series, let’s celebrate and honor tradition with a few fine new albums. Various Artists Cold & Bitter Tears: Songs of Ted Hawkins It seems like there’s been at least a thousand tribute […]
I recently had the pleasure of writing a hybrid review/interview about Kacey Musgraves’ new album, Pageant Material, for The Houston Press. It’s a lovely LP, but timeliness standards being as they’ve always been, I had to consume it like I […]
In two weeks, a patch of pastureland near a small Montana town will be transformed into one of the premier music festivals in Big Sky Country, as the Red Ants Pants Music Festival kicks off in White Sulphur Springs. This […]
Some hardened James McMurtry fans might be quite surprised about the gifted Americana singer-songwriter’s best concert choices. McMurtry, who released his widely acclaimed Complicated Game album in February, says a Cyndi Lauper show at Austin’s Stubbs BBQ in June 2013 […]
Some of my favorite childhood memories are the times my grandfather would take me to Jacks[1] to have breakfast with him and his buddies, and it wasn’t just because he let me pick whatever I wanted off the menu. No, […]
Saturday was fuckin’ perfect. For the first time in 37 years, a colt galloped to victory in the Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing’s Triple Crown. It was 80 degrees in Seattle–mild by Texas standards, but a scorcher to the average Northwesterner. […]
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