Ten years after their first Fun Machine covers collection, Lake Street Dive is cranking up that contraption once again for a second EP of cover songs showing off the band’s wide range of sounds and influences. Fun Machine: The […]
Ten years after their first Fun Machine covers collection, Lake Street Dive is cranking up that contraption once again for a second EP of cover songs showing off the band’s wide range of sounds and influences. Fun Machine: The […]
If you’ve been sleeping on stamp collecting, you might want to wake up now. Next Thursday the U.S. Postal Service will release a stamp honoring Pete Seeger. The “Forever” stamp, part of the USPS’s Music Icons series, currently is […]
Sarah Shook is unquestionably in charge as frontperson for punk-tinged alt-country band Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, whose last album, Nightroamer, came out in February (ND review). But with their new solo project, Mightmare, they’re driving alone: Shook created […]
No one knows their way around a banjo quite like Jason Romero. He knows how to play them, of course, but also, through building them for J. Romero Banjos, he intrinsically understands what they’re made of, in terms of […]
For a certain kind of science geek/audiophile, T Bone Burnett’s announcement last spring of Ionic Originals, a new high-fidelity, long-lasting analog audio format from his NeoFidelity company, was pretty exciting stuff. (You can read up on the details here.) […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis movie is now in theaters, and while the King, of course, is in the spotlight, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was a major influence as Elvis came of age, finally gets some mainstream attention too. Tharpe is […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: S.G. Goodman is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for June. Learn more about her and her new album, Teeth Marks, in our interview, and don’t miss Goodman’s essay on writing through OCD. When a relationship ends, there […]
Elizabeth Cook has never been one for subtlety — which is exactly why we love her. She’s always said and sung what’s on her mind, but perhaps nowhere as loudly and clearly as on her 2007 breakthrough album, Balls. […]
As a No Depression reader, you’ve likely known about Molly Tuttle for years. But it seems the rest of the world is starting to take notice, and we welcome them to the club! PBS News Hour aired a segment […]
Kris Kristofferson announced his retirement last year — a year after it had actually taken place — but if you were longing to hear him live again, a new record announced today (which happens to be Kristofferson’s 86th birthday) […]