EDITOR’S NOTE: Samantha Crain is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for July 2020. Read more about Crain and her new album, A Small Death, out July 17, all month long. Finding a comfortable role in which to exist in this […]
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The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has renewed a dialogue that only seems to happen when a video of horrific police abuse goes viral. That dialogue centers on a few things: specifically the nature of policing, the use […]
Neon Cross is a strong LP, one befitting the buzz building around Jaime Wyatt in the aftermath of her well-regarded 2017 EP Felony Blues. The album and its 11 tracks, flawlessly produced by Shooter Jennings, are an offering in sturdy […]
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” That’s one of Hunter S. Thompson’s finest musings. When life gives you strange circumstances, the truly dedicated take those times and put their personal stamp on the moment. That pretty well […]
At first blush, singer-songwriter Logan Ledger sounds like he just wasn’t made for these times. His singing is a throwback to a bygone era, stirring up echoes of the lonesome voices of a Glen Campbell or Roy Orbison. Ledger’s eponymous […]
Music, definitely at its best and sometimes at its worst, brings people together. It’s an agent of good in the world, a way to bring together performer and listener, musicians with other musicians, and cultures with other cultures. It takes […]
A good love song never goes out of style. It’s like Sir Paul McCartney sang: “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs / I look around me and I see it isn’t so.” And, to […]
Have you seen the news lately? Things are looking pretty bleak out there, what with the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout. Concerts and other mass-attended events are being cancelled, folks are being encouraged to stay home and avoid public spaces […]
Managing a career is hard. Being a parent is hard, too. But trying to juggle both simultaneously is profoundly difficult. It’s tough for me, a normie with a relatively normal day job and life. And finding that balance isn’t any […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In December, we like to take a look back at albums we didn’t get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Black Pumas was released in June. The Grammy nominations came out recently, and the “Best New […]
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