Picture the “epic handshake” meme, with death metal band Rivers of Nihil on one side, bicoastal folk trio The Faux Paws on the other, and smooth saxophone solos in the middle where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers’ ham fists clasp […]
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“In 1947,” writes Michael Chabon in his 2016 family memoir Moonglow, “there was, to my grandfather, one reason to call oneself a Jew, to go on being Jewish before the world: as a way of telling Hitler, ‘F**k you.’” Doni […]
There’s no better distillation of Jewish American identity couched in Southern culture than a 30-minute yarn seesawing between humor, horror, and rage relating to the ways the region’s legendary hospitality clangs with Jewish custom. For most Jews, “hostility” is the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Amythyst Kiah is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for June 2021. Read more about Kiah and her new album, Wary + Strange (out June 18), all month long. Most of us struggling with demons tend to call […]
If you’re sick of hearing the phrase “new normal” batted around like a squash ball by media outlets, you’re in good company with Rod Abernethy. On his new album, Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore, produced by Neilson Hubbard, the Raleigh songwriter […]
America’s in a bad place, given the ever-increasing pile-on of horrors and tragedies weighing on its conscience: the unabated COVID-19 pandemic, near daily bursts of fatal police violence inflicted on Black Americans, a sustained series of wildfires currently consuming […]
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