EDITOR’S NOTE: Parker Millsap is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2021. Look for more about him and his new album, Be Here Instead (out April 9), all month long. How does Parker Millsap view himself as an artist? That’s the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Parker Millsap is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for April 2021. Look for more about him and his new album, Be Here Instead (out April 9), all month long. How does Parker Millsap view himself as an artist? That’s the […]
Very little about Leslie Jordan’s professional trajectory is typical. From regular roles on TV, winning an Emmy, and recently becoming Instagram famous, his career has taken one unexpected turn after another. Now he can add one other accomplishment to his […]
Man, the new Israel Nash album is a corker. The backstory behind Topaz is fascinating: Nash built a Quonset hut recording studio a few hundred feet from his Texas home and spent most of last year holed up in it, […]
Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus are more than two accomplished musicians that work well with each other. They’re friends, with a creative, open-minded chemistry built upon 25 years of mutual respect and a desire for continued artistic growth. It’s […]
For Ani DiFranco, the personal and the political aren’t merely intertwined; they’re the same thing. If there’s a throughline that can be traced across her 30-plus years as a feminist and DIY icon, it’s that just merely existing, thinking, and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review. L.A. Yesterday was released in July. […]
In recent years, the outlaw country descriptor has become increasingly nebulous. Is it a sound, a fashion style, an overarching aesthetic or lifestyle? What does it mean? In that sense, it’s like the equivalent of punk rock, where it becomes […]
“We are living through an age of grief; grieving our lives, routines and families at the hand of a pandemic,” writes William Prince in a statement on his website. “Through my adjustment, I found myself singing songs that made me […]
“Summer is gone,” laments Cordovas frontman Joe Firstman on “Afraid No More,” the fourth song his band’s new LP, Destiny Hotel. Given the autumn wind and the state of the world, it feels like a profundity. But Destiny Hotel isn’t […]
What a time to be alive. We’ve got a pandemic, police protests, a presidential election, and all kinds of anxiety-inducing happenings all about us. It’s easy to get hung up on it all, but sometimes you just gotta unplug and […]
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