No one can define the phrase “Americana music,” but everybody — well, many writers and critics — has an opinion about its meaning. Like Jim Lauderdale, who shouts “Now, that’s Americana” after every performance at the Americana Music Association’s annual […]
Balsam Range is just an adolescent, in bluegrass terms. As it enters its 12th year of touring, the band, whose five members all come from rural Haywood County in western North Carolina, has established itself as a groundbreaking bluegrass band […]
Today’s an exciting day for No Depression! It’s been a long time coming, and after months of hard work and collaboration, we’re proud to announce the dawn of a new NoDepression.com. This massive website redesign includes some pretty drastic changes, […]
The Flesh Eaters rolled into Seattle for the final date of their West Coast swing with high expectations as their new album “I Used To Be Pretty” hit the streets. Now the Flesh Eaters are not your typical Americana roots […]
In 1912 a group of raisin growers in California’s San Joaquin Valley got together and decided to form a collective but had no name or business plan. They soon became the California Associated Raisin Company, but a gentleman named E.A. […]
You’d be hard-pressed to name a music festival where songwriting wasn’t a cornerstone of the entire event. Yet for the past ten years an arts council in a county of small beach towns along the Florida Panhandle has been throwing […]
For an album inspired by loss, Wish You Were Here is brimming with life. Joshua Ray Walker’s debut feels less like a shaky first album and more like a portfolio of greatest hits. The Dallas singer-songwriter has road-tested his material throughout […]
The title of the sophomore album from Lula Wiles, What Will We Do, lacks a question mark, a detail that feels intentional. The title is taken from the traditional folk song “What Will We Do When We Have No Money?”, […]
With roots steeped in her Haitian heritage, Leyla McCalla has defined Kreyòl as a “language of resistance,” an identity she proudly embraces on her new album The Capitalist Blues. Throughout the poetic project, McCalla pairs insight with empathy to comment […]
Thomas O’Keefe tells a great story, and he has plenty of them to share with us in his bumptious, roaring, swooping roller-coaster-ride account of his years with the enfant terrible of alt-country, Ryan Adams. O’Keefe, now the tour manager for […]
