EDITOR’S NOTE: JD McPherson is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for September 2024. Learn more about him and his new album, Nite Owls, coming Sep. 27 on New West Records. “Everybody I know wants me to be more prolific,” JD McPherson says […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: JD McPherson is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for September 2024. Learn more about him and his new album, Nite Owls, coming Sep. 27 on New West Records. “Everybody I know wants me to be more prolific,” JD McPherson says […]
August 2024 had a whopping five Fridays, meaning an abundance of new music releases and more than 50 tracks on this month’s playlist. Long-time No Depression artists like roots royalty Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, folk artist Amos Lee, and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2024 journal issue in honor of Drivin N Cryin’s ongoing tribute album compilation. You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider […]
The crowd filed into the festival grounds at this year’s Bluegrass in La Roche in eastern France as the hot August sun began to set, offering a little relief to festivalgoers. The band Blue Weed, from Italy, was wrapping […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild Ponies are No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Dreamers, coming Aug. 23 on No Evil Records, in our interview. And watch them perform “Breathe” from the album […]
Over the course of her nearly three-decade career in music, Ruthie Foster has run a lot of road. Along the way, she’s developed a sound all her own inflected by blues, soul, gospel, and folk that’s earned her multiple […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Shane Smith & the Saints are on tour this summer after the release of their new album, Norther, in March. They hosted the inaugural Saints Weekend in the Sawtooths in July. Greetings from Shane Smith & […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild Ponies are No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Dreamers (out Aug. 23 on No Evil Records), in this interview, and look for more all month long. […]
Don’t call it a comeback, but in a way, it is one. Not to the music business, though. Shelby Lynne never left it. She’s been plugging away as a journeywoman singer and songwriter for decades. But about two years […]
Like most humans do at some point, Alison Brown got to thinking recently about her younger self. She was poring through the original tapes of her landmark 1990 album Simple Pleasures in preparation for a reissue, and she wondered […]
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