The best music takes on a life of its own, but it’s important for fans to ensure it doesn’t become a shut-in. Consider rock and roll’s recent slide in popularity (to some extent at the hands of the banjo). Rock may […]
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It’s that time of the season again. Baseball and flowers blooming, fresh cut lawns and morning dew, new albums being released and music festival travel plans being made. Here in the beautiful Lower Hudson Valley it’s an eighty degree day […]
I first heard of Dallas Wayne from his albums in the early 2000’s on the venerable HighTone Records. Back then, I’d take a chance and buy an album because of the label’s reputation. I was rarely disappointed by HighTone artists. […]
This week on No Depression, we’re basking in the fantastic red light glow of Willie Nelson’s album cover for God’s Problem Child. Staff reviewer Don McLeese says it “recalls the era when Willie was at his creative peak.” Also on […]
Here’s hoping that Willie Nelson has a dozen more albums left in him. But he’ll have trouble equaling the richness and emotional depth he has achieved here, with God’s Problem Child (out April 28 on Legacy). The album’s cover recalls […]
A lot has already been written about SXSW, now in its 30th year on this website and so many others. But suffice it to say, it is no longer a music festival, it is an extravaganza. Many folks I know have either […]
Thousands, maybe millions, of words have been written about the effect crowdfunding has had on young independent artists who no longer have to endure the often arbitrary grind of the label system and can release new music by appealing directly […]
When I was a child growing up in an apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side during the 1940s, I remember going down to the forbidden boiler room, where a huge furnace sat burning coal. Rosie, the building’s superintendent, opened […]
Roots artists made a bit of a splash when Grammy nominations were announced late last year — prompting Sturgill Simpson to print up some “Who the F*** is Sturgill Simpson?” T-shirts — and they didn’t disappoint at the big show last […]
How about that Super Bowl, eh? Sportsing aside, Lady Gaga pulled off the remarkable feat of offending nobody and entertaining everybody with her halftime show. Before it started, everyone wondered if she’d make some sort of political statement in this […]
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