For newer fans, especially those who came to Jason Molina’s prolific output after his untimely passing in 2013 due to complications of alcoholism, the continued reissuing of his work can be consumed like new material. With sounds and lyrics as […]
The Fall-Winter issue of No Depression is here! The theme is “Innovate” and it deals with the messy business of creating. Brilliant, perfect ideas don’t just spring fully formed from an innovator’s mind, like the Greek myth of Athena leaping to life […]
State Champion, an alt-country quartet with members flung between Louisville and Chicago, isn’t exactly a new band. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ryan Davis, drummer Sal Cassato, bassist Mikie Poland, and violinist Sabrina Rush formed the band more than 10 years ago while still […]
Field Report has seemingly always taken musical influence from a range of places. When frontman/songwriter Chris Porterfield — the anagram of whose surname became Field Report — began playing music professionally, he performed in an almost folky group with Bon […]
The Thousand Incarnations Of The Rose: American Primitive Guitar and Banjo (1963-1974) is a verbosely titled, multi-faceted, complicated release. The double-LP collection, which includes 17 tracks from 10 musicians, is part historical compilation and part new festival accompaniment. In terms […]
Banjoist and percussionist Nathan Bowles’ latest album is at once old and new. He takes some of the oldest instruments known to humanity and wields them in ways that both evoke the past and challenge their future roles in pop […]
No Depression has a seemingly subtle, yet extraordinarily important relationship with the FreshGrass Festival — an annual bluegrass and roots music festival that takes place at the Mass MoCA contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. The presenting organization, the […]
It may not be coincidence that Seattle-based singer-songwriter Ben Fisher’s new album trying to humanize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict came out the Friday before Rosh Hashana — the Jewish New Year. Fisher, a Jewish-American multi-instrumentalist, majored in Arabic and Middle Eastern […]
