The FreshGrass Foundation, No Depression‘s nonprofit publisher, has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition of FreshGrass | North Adams — its flagship, three-day music festival in the Berkshires. This year’s event, which takes place September 19-21 at MASS MoCA, features […]
This week, Southwest Airlines announced that the Texas-based company will end its highly-favored policy of two free checked bags for each passenger flying. The change is set to take place starting May 28, 2025. According to Reuters, via the US […]
February was particularly frigid in the Northeast, with multiple snowstorms battering New York City and temperatures dropping well below zero in Montreal during the Folk Alliance International annual conference (recaps from which can be found here and here). Luckily, last […]
The beginning of a new year is always slow for new music. People are still relishing those holiday spells and hibernation periods. But around mid-month, the new releases start to trickle in, and this past January was no different. Once the […]
Music’s Biggest Night actually began about 3:30 p.m. EST, when the 67th annual Grammy Awards actually announced about 80 categories of awards before primetime. Usually, the roots music centric awards take place during this three-hour livestream from Grammy.com, so No […]
Just 11 days into America’s new administration, it’s obvious that the the cruelty and the overwhelm are the point. For anyone who hasn’t been able to keep up with the barrage of bad news, here’s one that pertains to the […]
This week was rich in new music releases, including from three big names in roots music — country singer-songwriter and rocker Jason Isbell, bluegrass singer-songwriter, mandolinist, and guitarist Sierra Hull, and folk and rock star Lucy Dacus. Isbell’s first completely […]
The Steve Martin Banjo Prize announced its two winners for 2024 — Tray Wellington and Allison de Groot. With a board chaired by banjoist and Compass Records co-owner Alison Brown, as well as sponsors including the FreshGrass Foundation (the nonprofit […]
Well, No Depression‘s resident lover of holiday music has left the building, so we’re changing things up around here. Instead of sharing mini reviews of our team’s favorite new roots music Christmas records like we’ve done the last three years, we’ve […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our Winter 2024 quarterly journal, featuring the best and most timely stories in roots music today. Buy the Winter 2024 issue in print or digitally here, which contributes to No Depression’s […]
