I’ve been thinking a lot lately about music as a uniting force and a universal language. Here at No Depression, we’ve recently published stories about music crossing national and cultural borders, as with the American Patchwork Quartet; music crossing […]
Apple debuted a new ad this week that uses a hydraulic press to illustrate how the company compacts a wide variety of tools into a sleek, thin new iPad model. I love a hydraulic press video, to be honest, […]
A quarter century ago, country musician Cleve Francis and college professor Nelson Wilson saw a gap in the story of country music that was being presented to mainstream audiences. To help tell a fuller story, the Country Music Hall […]
Every now and then, a touring artist finds themselves with an exceptionally busy day — an early show and a late show, say, or multiple slots at a festival. But folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner has really overscheduled himself — […]
On Celebrity Family Feud, guests get to form their own family, and contestants The War and Treaty showed up to the Steve Harvey-hosted game show with plenty of brainpower (not to mention musical might) on their side. Playing alongside […]
We’ve covered some very prolific songwriters at No Depression, but none of them hold a candle, numbers-wise, to Matt Farley. Farley, under various artist names, has written more than 24,000 songs, all uploaded to Spotify, which is exactly the […]
Billy Strings has a long tradition of giving back. His String the Halls holiday shows have benefited the Nashville Rescue Mission, and in 2021, he brought a truckload of new guitars to his old elementary school in Michigan to […]
“It ain’t about the past,” the Drive-By Truckers proclaimed this week in announcing a tour to revisit their 2001 Southern Rock Opera double album. That’s because so many of those songs still speak to the state of the South […]
Malcolm Holcombe, a songwriting hero to many songwriters, died this week at 68. According to a social media post from his wife, he died from respiratory failure, though he’d suffered from ill health, including cancer, for a long time. […]
Whether a Black pop star is “allowed” to make country music is a subject of fierce debate in some corners of the internet lately, and probably in some dark, ugly places in real life, too. But the fact is […]
