Innovative picker and songwriter Yasmin Williams made some headlines on Wednesday after she received “absolutely insane” email responses from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. Earlier this week, she wrote to Interim Executive Director […]
Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, South by Southwest (SXSW) has become, like its host city, many things to many people. The event has grown to incorporate tech, fashion, design, film, television, exhibitions, comedy, education, gaming and other cultural endeavors […]
The roots music community was stunned to hear about the passing of “outsider folk” singer-songwriter Michael Hurley yesterday at the age of 83 years old. The news was ostensibly broken by Brooklyn-based venue Union Pool, which posted a photo of […]
What do Brian Ahern, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Rosanne Cash, and Guy and Susanna Clark have in common? What unites them musically, or at least brings them together for songwriting rounds and guitar pulls and trading places in […]
Founded in 2009, the Big Ears Festival lays claim to bringing more diverse music acts to single locale than any other event or gathering. From roots to the avant-garde, the fest brings together performers from around the world to music […]
You could call the structure of this column “songwriters up front, instrumentalists in back,” but in reality the line between them gets blurry. Canadian chanteuse Basia Bulat, Jayhawks mainstay Gary Louris, and rising star Kora Feder all have distinctive […]
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, goodbye’s too strong a word, so for now I’ll just say “fare thee well.” As the world turns, I’ve come to the end of my tenure in this role of Web Editor at No Depression. Nothing […]
A major challenge of crowdfunding is that you’re selling something that doesn’t exist yet. You’re selling the idea of an album or a movie or a book in hopes of raising the money to make that idea a reality. But […]
There is simply too much going on in the roots music world. This week, the column goes from Texas to Australia. In the former, Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion (Spicewood, Texas, March 13, 2025) showed the world how to put on […]
The FreshGrass Foundation, No Depression‘s nonprofit publisher, has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition of FreshGrass | North Adams — its flagship, three-day music festival in the Berkshires. This year’s event, which takes place September 19-21 at MASS MoCA, features […]
