Through their songwriting, roots music vanguards The Wood Brothers exemplify what we gain when we heed our senses: We learn, we grow, and at the baseline, we live. But the title of their eighth studio record — Heart Is the […]
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In most cultural mythologies, anything with more than one head tends to be bad news: the balaur, the Lernaean hydra, Yamata no Orochi. In some cases, though, two heads are more benevolent than one, and one such case is Dallas’ […]
There’s nothing quite like watching people do the thing they’ve spent a lifetime training to do: Winning Wimbledon, dancing lead in Giselle, breaking a 1,000-year-old Viking weightlifting record, cooking dinner in 8 minutes and 37 seconds. Listening to If It […]
“Cowpunk” doesn’t have the ring of a musical subgenre. It sounds like more like a mid-2o00s MTV show where pranks are either played on cows, or played by cows. Of course, it is a musical subgenre, and Dallas, Texas’ Vandoliers […]
Picturing Tim Heidecker as a sentimental man is considerably harder than picturing the screen persona he’s cultivated over years as an actor and comedian: Egotistical, boorish, caustic, prickly, a bit of a blowhard and a fundamental jerk. In movies like […]
Paying proper tribute to a musician like Neal Casal, whose career spanned nearly 30 years and saw him work with everyone from The Cardinals to Hard Working Americans to The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, takes chutzpah and careful planning. Casal took […]
Making art where identity features centrally and flies under the radar all at once takes a deliberate equilibrium: balance between buildup and payoff. Toronto’s Ahkinoah Habah Izarh, AHI to us, plots out his new album, Prospect, with that equilibrium in […]
If you’re a musician living through a pandemic, you make a quarantine album. It’s what you do. Daniel and Lauren Goans, the married duo known musically as Lowland Hum, are no exception. Though given their 2010s output — five self-produced […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joshua Ray Walker is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for October. Look for more on Walker, and his new album, See You Next Time, out Friday, all month long. Texas-born and Dallas-based troubadour Joshua Ray Walker paints […]
Now’s as good a time as any to ask the question “what do you need a song for?”: After a good 10 days or so this June, when American life looked like it might go back to normal, the country […]
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