EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our current quarterly journal, reflecting on the issue’s theme, “Good News.” We invite you to celebrate getting through another tough year by diving into the Winter 2021 issue’s 100+ pages of […]
The sound of Guantánamo is a party. Although a historically poor region overshadowed in name, geography, and context by the imposing US detention camp in the southernmost part of the Cuban province, Guantánamo is actually rich in music and […]
The FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression’s nonprofit publisher) and Silkroad announced a new collaboration today, in which the two organizations will partner to create a complete program of new music titled The American Railroad. Founded by 18-time Grammy award-winning cellist […]
Dave Hause used to be a hardcore kid. Having grown up in Philadelphia, he spent his 20s playing in punk groups like The Loved Ones and The Falcon (a supergroup with members of The Lawrence Arms and Alkaline Trio). Even […]
The annual FreshGrass Festival — produced by No Depression’s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation — celebrated a giant return to live music this past weekend. After pausing for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the three-day festival roared back […]
Back in November, during the tension-riddled time between Election Day and Results Day, the guitar-wielding, Twitter-hot-take-firing Jason Isbell posted a bold claim on the bird app: “If Biden wins Georgia I’m gonna make a charity covers album of my favorite […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Managing Editor Hilary Saunders’ letter, below, opens our current quarterly journal, reflecting on the issue’s theme, “Ghosts.” We invite you to dive into the issue’s 100+ pages of stories about the history, folklore, stories, and legends that […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2017 journal, “Over Yonder,” that we’re sharing in light of recent events in Afghanistan. There are ideas for ways to help amid the current humanitarian crisis at the […]
Renowned Texas singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died in Nashville at the age of 68, Rounder Records has confirmed. No cause of death was announced. Griffith, who released 18 studio albums (two of her final three came out on Rounder) over […]
Rio de Janeiro-born singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante’s second solo LP, Drama, opens with a brief, instrumental, eponymous track. Sounds of canned laughter, artificial applause, and raindrops hitting a tin roof crackle through stereo speakers, offering a variegated preface to the 11-track […]
