“With the help of you people we stuck it straight up Nashville’s ass!” Considering he was in the middle of the first of two very sold out shows at Stubb’s, it was hard to disagree with Sturgill Simpson’s cheerful proclamation […]
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I was so excited to finally see Sturgill Simpson at his sold-out show at The Paradise this weekend. Last time he was in Boston — also playing to a sold-out crowd — I was in his home town of Nashville. […]
“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 […]
Jon Hardy’s music sounds nothing like Sturgill Simpson’s. The latter plays finger-pickin’-good bluegrass with some country funk ladled on, while the former employs synthesizers, harmonicas, and anthemic riffs that are reminiscent of Unforgettable Fire-era U2. But both men are 36, hail from the […]
Critics, by nature, overanalyze. After all, it’s our job to not only figure out whether music works, but to turn the average listener’s ears in a direction that’ll help them hear things they may not have heard in a casual […]
“I saw the light from heaven shining all around.” –Dry Bones, traditional, as performed by Graham Lindsey This weekend we endured the shortest day of the year — all about the darkness and all about the light. The glass is […]
Like many other No Depression readers who have checked out this year’s Top 50 Reader’s Poll, I have really enjoyed pouring over the results and seeing which artists were recognized. In part it’s an affirmation of the music that I’ve […]
The work of creating a Best-of-the-Year list can be a strange experience. In a phone interview today with Keb’ Mo’ we moaned together about how to respond to these year-end lists. Of course, he has a lot of room to moan […]
When No Depression launched as a print magazine in 1995, its positioning as an alternative-country quarterly was intended to be squarely in contrast to the dominant acts on mainstream country radio at the time. The magazine championed the organic sounds […]
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