If 2008 was the year the masses finally became acquainted with the extraordinary talent of Glen Hansard through his Oscar-winning song with Marketa Irglova under the name Swell Season it’s likely that Hansard would be the first to tell you […]
In his year-end review of Marah’s 2008 album a couple days ago, my colleague Paul Cantin mused about how we tend to look forward to a new year with a sense of hope, optimistic at the promise that a fresh […]
Besides having perhaps the hardest surname to spell in all of indie-rock, Lara Meyerratken is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and singer who has recorded and toured with an impressive array of melodic pop acts. Since rising to the fore as […]
2008: In Review — index:January 2: See the results of our annual year-end critics’ pollDecember 31: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, The Hare’s Corner (by Peter Blackstock)December 30: Como Now: The Voices Of Panola Co., Misissippi (by Grant Alden)December 29: Ersi […]
Earlier this week, longtime ND magazine senior editor Bill Friskics-Warren contributed a Monday guest-column about Midwest Farm Disaster, a 1972 album by the largely forgotten singer-songwriter Bob Martin. As fate would have it, columnist Lloyd Sachs followed on Wednesday with […]
One might assume that an album titled Our Bright Future by one of the foremost African-American singer-songwriters contemporary pop music of the past few decades, released a week after the first African-American president was elected to office, would be a […]
There’s one thing I’ve come to know about Bruce Robison, in a couple decades of watching his gradual rise from an Austin nightclub and dancehall upstart to the likely future dean of Texas songwriters. And that is, despite the significant […]
While it’s generally acknowledged that Pete Seeger is the foremost still-living legend of the folk revival, it may surprise some folks just how popular he still is. It certainly surprised the folks at Merlefest in April 2006, when he was […]
If you were a Barack Obama fan or, heck, even if you were a John McCain fan who simply loves good independent music you could’ve done a lot worse than to find yourself on the Graham Terrace patio next to […]
If you’re familiar with the pre-dot-com history of No Depression, you likely already know how far my own musical history goes back with Alejandro Escovedo. If not, this should give you some idea. It was ten years ago that Grant […]
