It’s harder to listen to rock music as an adult than it was in my teens and 20s. Don’t get me wrong, there are a handful of rock acts I still dig, but overall my tastes have shifted. I crave […]
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Outlaw country has almost become a brand. Think about it: How many Cash stickers have you seen in Target parking lots or rush-hour traffic? These are utterly anonymous settings, places approximately as badass as a post office. In this context, […]
Did the mountain climber climb to the top, or were they born there? We’ve all seen inspirational posters: You pair a breathtaking photo with some inane platitude, put the whole thing in a frame, and hang it in a corporate […]
In early 2017, I interviewed Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid about his book Exit West. It’s an incredible story, and it was one of the top books of 2017 for me (as well as for Barack Obama!). When we spoke, though, […]
The first time I saw Lera Lynn I was impressed — really impressed. It was 2016, I was at a music festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and I was parked at the venue with the most country music on the bill. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story first appeared in our Summer 2018 / (Im)migration print journal. You can buy a copy here, and we hope you’ll consider subscribing to No Depression in order to receive all of our quarterly print journals and […]
My college girlfriend and I had widely divergent tastes in music. She really liked gentle, upbeat folk-rock. I, at the time, was hooked on the cheesiest nu-metal 2001 had to offer. Jesus Christ, it wasn’t even good metal – everyone […]
You’ve suspected it, and it’s true: Sometimes music reviewers only listen to the first 30 seconds or so of a record. We’ve heard it all before, we tell ourselves, and we can tell where a musician’s going (and whether we’ll […]
Caleb Caudle lives well. Alcohol-free and happily married, this Winston-Salem, North Carolina, country singer seems to be in a very stable place. It wasn’t always this way, it’s worth saying, and his less refined youth definitely educated songs on records […]
I remember the first time I watched Planes with my kids. If you haven’t seen it, it’s like Cars, only with, well, planes. It’s not a bad film. Basically, a small-town blue-collar dude (in this case, a crop duster) thinks […]
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