A confession, to begin with. The first record I ever reviewed or, at least, attempted to review was the Electric Light Orchestra’s 1979 album Discovery. As a freshman cub-reporter for The Edition, the Anderson High School newspaper in Austin, Texas, […]
A couple weeks back, we posted my colleague David Cantwell’s review of the new Mark Olson & Gary Louris album Ready For The Flood, and I’ve been thinking about his thesis contention that what was most missed in the work […]
It’s unanimous, at least among NoDepression.com’s critics and readers: Alejandro Escovedo’s Real Animal was the best album of 2008. Many of you responded to the early-January posting of our annual ND Critics Poll by saying you were interested in having […]
It seems warranted today to drop in a brief mention about the latest Austin City Limits episode featuring half-hour segments by Nick Lowe and the Swell Season; it aired last night in our neck of the woods, and perhaps yours […]
If you think that Right About Now I’d Like To Move To Austin And Buy A Purple House is a rather long title for a record, know that it’s also the title of the first song on this five-track EP […]
UPDATED WITH DAY 2 AND DAY 3, BELOW First, to explain the headline: Central Texas band the Dedringers has a song called “All My Friends Are Goin’ Into The Institution”, a clever and supremely catchy little ditty about watching all […]
Year-end mixtapes, er, mixdiscs, er, mix-iTunes playlists….everybody’s got one. (I suppose the coolest of the cool get ’em pressed up on vinyl these days.) Not that you asked, but here’s mine. And, with turnabout being fair play, I will ask […]
Ballots are listed in ranked order from top to bottom; the number is the total points they received. Ballots submitted unranked were scored at an average 5.5 points for each entry. Peter Blackstock, editor/columnistBasia Bulat, Oh My Darling 10Ben Sollee, […]
The Avett Brothers find themselves in an unusual situation at the dawning of 2009. Much of the country has just been through an extraordinarily difficult year. The music industry is morphing into an entirely different animal, with the value of […]
READERS POLL! By popular demand, we’ve added an ND Readers Poll. The results are here NEW ADDITION! See all the voters’ individual ballots here Turns out that Barack Obama wasn’t the only runaway victor Bruce Springsteen made it his personal […]
