After nine successful music festivals at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, Mass., the FreshGrass Festival has announced its first expansion. FreshGrass | Bentonville will debut in Arkansas April 24-25, 2020, before FreshGrass | North […]
Between seven records with the college rock, folksy jam band Dispatch, four with righteous rock trio State Radio, and a smattering of solo releases under various names, Chadwick Stokes Urmston has a long history of singing about important issues. On […]
In this hellacious year of our lord, it seems like we mortals are living and reliving humanity’s worst moments on earth with nauseating frequency. Among the already tired political, social, and environmental tropes rotating through an endless news cycle, 2019 […]
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Despite a penchant for song collection and resurrection and instrumentation that references the rich culture of their island nation, Irish four piece Lankum is not a traditional band. Based in Dublin and comprised of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and […]
La Santa Cecilia is a sight to behold live. Named for the patron saint of music, the Los Angeles-based band roars through Spanish language rancheros, English-only R&B covers, and its own hybrid, bilingual originals. Frontwoman Marisol Hernandez, who’s often just […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a story in our Summer 2019 print issue “Folk.” You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, available here. And please consider supporting No Depression with a subscription for more roots music […]
It’s pretty standard practice in the magazine industry to do a “food and drink” issue, on top of the many entire publications devoted to the topic, such as Food & Wine, Saveur, and Bon Appétit, just to name a few. […]
To record an ode to her home state of Kentucky, Louisville-based folk singer and songwriter Joan Shelley decamped to Iceland. Like the River Loves the Sea (the album title a play on the Si Kahn song “Like Butter Loves Bread”) is Shelley’s sixth […]
John Prine and his independent record label, Oh Boy Records, announced today that the 72-year-old singer will be forced to reschedule eight upcoming dates on his summer tour. As they shared on Instagram, “In consultation with his doctors, John has […]
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