The Blues Foundation has announced the nominees for its 44th annual Blues Music Awards. The awards recognize blues artists in a number of subgenres, including traditional blues, soul blues, contemporary blues, blues rock, and acoustic blues, as well as […]
Songs like the ones Iris DeMent writes don’t come in a flash, but rather are a slow dawn, big enough to light the whole world. Which may explain why the new album she announced today, Workin’ on a World, […]
Folk music-fomenting nonprofit Folk Alliance International has announced the nominees for this year’s International Folk Music Awards. The awards, which honor the best song, album, and artist of 2022 as well as several lifetime achievements, will be handed out […]
Living legend Taj Mahal has announced a new album, Savoy, which finds the groundbreaking blues and roots icon taking a musical trip back in time. The title comes from “Stompin’ at the Savoy,” a swing jazz standard honoring the […]
Zach Bryan was hating on Ticketmaster before Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen fans made it cool. And he hates them a lot — so much that he titled his new album, recorded live at Red Rocks and surprise-released on […]
As it was digitizing old student records, a school district in Winchester, Virginia, discovered a piece of country music history. In one of the files was an essay written by Patsy Cline when she was an eighth-grader at Gore […]
The Apple TV series Carpool Karaoke, which pairs celebrities for a ride peppered with songs, conversation, and always some surprises, dropped its fifth season last weekend, including an episode with members of Wilco and comedian Nikki Glaser filmed in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Adeem the Artist is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for December 2022. Read more about Adeem and their new album, White Trash Revelry, in our interview, and look for more from them all month long. Adeem the […]
It was incredibly hard to take the news this week of the untimely death of Peter Cooper, a Nashville-based country music journalist and a musician himself. He passed away Tuesday at the age of 52 after sustaining a head […]
Something new popped up on American Aquarium’s merch table last week. Amid the array of the band’s T-shirts, vinyl, and CDs at shows in Lawrence, Kansas, and Oklahoma City was a sign, simple black type on white printer paper, […]
