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 […]
Iron & Wine’s last album — the Grammy-nominated Beast Epic — arrived last year after more nearly four years without any new music from the band. Yet, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam released two collaborative records in that time, one with […]