EDITOR’S NOTE: Joe Pug is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for March 2024. Look for more about him and his new album, Sketch of a Promised Departure, out March 8, all month long. Joe Pug’s friend and neighbor Ted […]
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Sometimes a sketch is enough. John Vincent III’s “More than Alive” is little more than acoustic guitar and gentle vocals. There’s a little fretless bass here, some effected guitar ambience there, but the song itself is as sparse as the […]
“Tomorrow” dawns gradually. In another context, the tambourines and patient three-count drums would give this Black Pumas slow burner an R&B slow dance feel, but a phaser-soaked electric guitar pulls it toward ’70s psychedelia while sparse synth bass bursts pull […]
Some songwriters write short stories. Some write anthems. Some write life itself. “My friend had a Twin / I had some old no-name Strat,” John R. Miller sings on the gentle, finger-picked “Basements” on his new album, Heat Comes Down. […]
For many people, their late 20s and early 30s are a messy time. The type of messy — job, love, family, spirituality, overindulgence — is almost immaterial. It’s the overwhelming sense that they should have their footing by now. Life […]
“Those ’70s and ’80s blues men took on these Black stereotypes and made this new stereotype of bad, ‘your uncle’s band in a garage’ blues music,” Carl “Buffalo” Nichols told David Browne in a 2022 Rolling Stone story. “It’s already […]
Halfway through Turnpike Troubadours’ A Cat in the Rain we meet a cowboy. He rides among backcountry aspens, lost in thought. He was younger, wilder once, for which he’s paid dearly. “I don’t miss the taste of liquor / or […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
In 2018, North Carolina folk-pop band Mipso released Edges Run — and then came very close to splitting up. That album was the product of an edgy, stressful studio session. The four members of the band had been playing together […]
It’s not like Jeremy Ivey has high hopes for the future. “Hey tomorrow people / do you still blame the shit you do / on different colored people / who are not just like you?” he asks in “Tomorrow People,” […]
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