Scottish folk-rock band Frightened Rabbit reported its songwriter and frontman Scott Hutchison missing on Wednesday, and early this morning (in America) Scottish police confirmed that a body recovered in Port Edgar, near the South Queensferry neighborhood of Edinburgh, was his. […]
With all their many alliterations, the Super Saturated Sugar Strings are not actually a stringband in the traditional sense. The format was recognized as early as the 19th century with fiddle and banjo duos. In the realm of old-time music, […]
Singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus’ debut album thrust her into the scene as a prophetic wunderkind—a flesh and blood, yet musical and metaphorical proof that the kids are all right. No Burden, which was originally released on CD via her hometown Richmond-based […]
The Spring 2018 issue of No Depression, themed Appalachia, will be available in just a few short weeks and we’re thrilled to share it with you! No Depression is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, so your subscriptions truly help keep the future […]
One of the most incredible things about art is how it challenges us to think in different ways. tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus accepts this challenge to the extreme on her fourth LP, I can feel you creep into my private life: […]
Glen Hansard has played many roles in his 27-year musical career — singer, songwriter, bandleader, duet-half, and actor to name a few. In recent years, Hansard has followed the solo path, releasing three albums under his own name via Anti- […]
One of the most surprising elements of the results of this year’s annual ND Year-End Readers Poll was the number of artists who wouldn’t necessarily fall into the category of roots music. No Depression readers, you lifted Ryan Adams — […]
Year-in-review season is often cause for reflection. As the days get shorter, the time spent inside memories of the past 12 months often gets longer. And there’s been a lot to process this year. In reading the results from No Depression‘s Year-End Review […]
Two women, both decades older than I, sit at two separate tables in an old bakery down on the Lower East Side. The floor, red with flecked tiles, is even more glaring in the harsh fluorescent overhead lights. The tables […]
