With Earth Day on Tuesday and Arbor Day today, we thought it prudent to share some roots music in honor of the planet, the trees, and our urgent, global need for environmental protections. Nashville-based alt-country artists Jobi Riccio (ND review) […]
Periodically, my fellow No Depression columnist and analog enthusiast Amos Perrine publishes a column detailing the state of vinyl in roots music. Certainly vinyl is continuing its recent comeback as the primary physical media form. With CD players in […]
As we begin counting down the days to AMERICANAFEST and the onslaught of new roots music releases, this week’s column offers very short takes on five new albums that should not get lost in the shuffle. We also have an […]
To paraphrase one of the The Godfather movies, just when I thought I was out of things to say about vinyl, I have been pulled back in by some important happenings since last year’s report. For your convenience, I’ve listed […]
If you’ve been to the merch table at a roots music concert lately, you’ve probably noticed what I’ve noticed: Vinyl is front and center, and CDs are sort of an afterthought, if they’re available at all. That trend is […]
Recently my fellow ND columnist and vinyl purist Amos Perrine wrote the fourth in his periodic series on vinyl. While I never fully got on board the vinyl train, it’s impossible to keep up with the crowdfunding world without […]
I thought that last year’s column about vinyl collecting would be my last in an occasional series of them, but a lot has happened during the past year that warrants the attention of all roots music fans who are also […]
In a one-minute video posted Monday, Jack White stands in Third Man Records’ pressing plant to urge major record labels to build their own pressing plants to help solve a global vinyl backlog. Smaller bands often must wait 8-10 months […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Find earlier installments of Through the Lens’ “Why Vinyl?” series here: Part 1, Part 2 A lot has happened since this column last reported on the vinyl renaissance, about a year ago: Vinyl sales doubled in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Fall 2020 journal, “Going Green.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music journalism, in […]
