Every year around this time, I take a few minutes and reflect on the notable books that have shaped conversations about culture or that have revealed fresh insights on subjects about which we thought little else could be said. I […]
Every year around this time, I take a few minutes and reflect on the notable books that have shaped conversations about culture or that have revealed fresh insights on subjects about which we thought little else could be said. I […]
A few weeks ago my wife and I journeyed the 1,000 miles down to King’s Mountain, North Carolina, to attend the seventh annual Darin & Brooke Aldridge Holiday Concert at the Joy Performance Center there. We attended both the afternoon […]
December will be a “best of” month. Each column will highlight certain bests of the year. For this week’s column I asked our regular contributing photographers to select a memorable performance from the past year. Needless to say, all said […]
UPDATE: The 2018 ND Year-End Readers Poll has now closed, after more than 10,000 votes! We’ll post the results soon on nodepression.com. What a year it’s been for roots music releases! Things started off at a firehose-blast pace way back […]
Many of you who have been reading my articles over the past almost-ten years also follow my Facebook page, Americana and Roots Music Daily. I started it up about three years ago and it can best be described as an […]
The end of the year is approaching, but new music releases haven’t gone in to hibernation just yet. Here to keep you WARM is a new album from Jeff Tweedy (you can also read a review of his brand new memoir right here), […]
Go By Ocean brings us a musical dream this afternoon with the new video and single for “Fading.” The piece which is heaven sent, brings a charming look into the world of Go By Ocean which has us on the […]
This fall, one music memoir stands above the gelatinous glut of words that have oozed onto bookshelves and into our lives. Jeff Tweedy’s Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. — the […]
In my last column, I mentioned that one of the things I was most looking forward to about my upcoming months off the road was practicing music. It’s difficult, bordering on impossible, to maintain a serious practice routine on tour, […]
The holidays are here again, and some of our favorite roots artists have gotten in the spirit this year by releasing new albums of music for the season. By and large, they’re not content to rehash the classics, either. They’ve […]
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