It’s no easy task, but every year when it comes time for No Depression’s staff and contributors to pick their favorite roots music releases, they knock it out of the park. As always, there’s some overlap with our Year-End Readers […]
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It’s hardly a surprise anymore when a big-name artist sells their catalog to a corporation for millions of dollars. It’s hard to blame them as times get harder and harder for musicians. With a long touring drought amid COVID-19 […]
The annual FreshGrass Festival — produced by No Depression’s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation — celebrated a giant return to live music this past weekend. After pausing for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the three-day festival roared back […]
Canceled last year, then postponed from its traditional late April date to mid-September this year, MerleFest arrives this Thursday. But it’s not quite business as usual for the Wilkesboro, North Carolina, megafest. For the safety of attendees, volunteers, staff, […]
Just two weeks before it was set to start, DelFest had to cancel its plans for a 2021 festival in Maryland. A social media post signed by Rob and Robbie McCoury on behalf of the festival and family cited […]
It’s been a tough week of losses for music fans. I could make this column 10 miles long sharing my own thoughts about each one, but music touches everyone differently, and I’m sure you have thoughts and memories of […]
With the world shut down for most of 2020, it was hard to predict what 2021 would bring in terms of music. The end of full-band rockers? A glut of lonely songs from people’s bedrooms? Nothing at all? Thankfully, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Amythyst Kiah is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Wary + Strange, in our interview, and watch a video for the song “Firewater” here. I had no […]
As we are on the verge of returning to a semblance of normalcy and music venues are tip-toeing into the light of new performances, this week the column features photos and brief stories by eight ND photographers and myself on […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Amythyst Kiah is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for June 2021. Her new album, Wary + Strange, comes out this Friday on Rounder Records. Read our interview with Kiah here, and look for more about her and the […]
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