EDITOR’S NOTE: Humbird is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Right On, in our interview. And don’t miss her recent essay about songs and how they find us. Many […]
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Every now and then, a touring artist finds themselves with an exceptionally busy day — an early show and a late show, say, or multiple slots at a festival. But folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner has really overscheduled himself — […]
On Celebrity Family Feud, guests get to form their own family, and contestants The War and Treaty showed up to the Steve Harvey-hosted game show with plenty of brainpower (not to mention musical might) on their side. Playing alongside […]
For his new album, Sunday Morning Put-On, Andrew Bird is looking back to the classics. The Great American Songbook figures prominently on the album, coming out May 24 via Loma Vista Records, and in Bird’s own musical foundations, too. […]
A funny thing happened on Alejandro Escovedo’s way to the studio. As he was en route to Italy to record an album of new songs formed largely through improvisation, he listened back to Por Vida, a 2003 tribute album […]
We’ve covered some very prolific songwriters at No Depression, but none of them hold a candle, numbers-wise, to Matt Farley. Farley, under various artist names, has written more than 24,000 songs, all uploaded to Spotify, which is exactly the […]
It feels almost like a fever dream. That one weekend last August when a mysterious singer in Virginia launched his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” into the stratosphere. The song went viral immediately, and within a week of its […]
Billy Strings has a long tradition of giving back. His String the Halls holiday shows have benefited the Nashville Rescue Mission, and in 2021, he brought a truckload of new guitars to his old elementary school in Michigan to […]
On the hot summer night that word of the Supreme Court’s impending decision on the Dobbs case leaked, Dawn Landes found herself unable to sleep. The 2022 decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe vs. Wade […]
“It ain’t about the past,” the Drive-By Truckers proclaimed this week in announcing a tour to revisit their 2001 Southern Rock Opera double album. That’s because so many of those songs still speak to the state of the South […]
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