This week’s column is the last one this year devoted to roots music festival coverage. It features two Moon Crush fests at Miramar Beach, Florida: Moon Crush: Cowboy Moon (November 1-3, 2024), and Moon Crush: An Avett Moon (November […]
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The 38th annual King Biscuit Blues Festival took place October 9 to 12 this year, on the banks for the Mississippi River in Helena, Arkansas. Beloved for its rich blues music selection, the festival is considered the best in the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joy Clark is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for Oct. 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Tell it to the Wind (out Oct. 4 on Righteous Babe Records), in this interview, and look for more all month […]
This week’s column looks at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) 2024 World of Bluegrass that was recently held in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was a multi-headed beast of a roots music festival that’s comprised of four components: 1) Conference […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: JD McPherson is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for September 2024. Learn more about him via this interview. His new album, Nite Owls, coming Sep. 27 on New West Records. You might not expect a guy who was born and […]
As AMERICANAFEST 2024 jets into full blast in Nashville, Tennessee, the Americana Music Association gathered its members and fans at the Ryman Auditorium last night to hand out its annual honors and awards. Hosted by long-time favorites Kenneth Pattengale and […]
As you might have heard Kacey Musgraves sing in a cryptic commercial aired during Sunday night’s Grammy Awards broadcast, “My Saturn has returned” — and so, it was firmly announced today, has Musgraves, with a new album coming next […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Madi Diaz is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for February 2024. Look for more about her and her new album, Weird Faith, out Feb. 9 on ANTI-, all month long. “I’m doing my damnedest to claim my […]
The FreshGrass Foundation, No Depression’s parent nonprofit organization, is dedicated to providing roots music artists with opportunities to create new work and to take artistic risks outside the pressures of the commercial music space. It does this through several […]
As is the case with country subgenres, alt-country emerged from a collision of styles. A story with many disputed beginnings, the most prominent influences on alt-country were outlaw country and punk rock. One of many subgenres that emerged as […]
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