(Editor’s note: About a year ago, Model Rockets ringleader John Ramberg dropped me a line to let me know that the band was planning a small-scale reissue of this album, which came out in the fall of 1994. Ramberg had […]
(Editor’s note: About a year ago, Model Rockets ringleader John Ramberg dropped me a line to let me know that the band was planning a small-scale reissue of this album, which came out in the fall of 1994. Ramberg had […]
After three studio albums plus a live disc on Sugar Hill, Scott Miller embraces the full-on indie way forward with For Crying Out Loud but without any dramatic changes to his musical approach. Fans of his previous records under the […]
News that Neko Case’s latest album, Middle Cyclone, reached #3 on the Billboard charts upon its release last month signaled the arrival of a new phase in the singer’s gradually building career. No longer is Case a nightclub act; she’s […]
“That one hurts my hand a little bit,” Jake Shimabukuro confided as he shook his fingers to cool them down after playing his original composition “Blue Roses Falling” a couple songs into his early-evening set at the fabled Iron Horse […]
[Editor’s note: The following review appears in No Depression #77, the second in a series of “bookazines” edited by Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock and published by University of Texas Press. The bookazine can be ordered here.] When news began […]
Randy Weeks has described his music as “late ’60s AM to early ’70s FM,” but on his new disc Going My Way, I hear a bit of early-mid ’70s AM in there as well. Which may be parsing eras and […]
A confession, to begin with. The first record I ever reviewed or, at least, attempted to review was the Electric Light Orchestra’s 1979 album Discovery. As a freshman cub-reporter for The Edition, the Anderson High School newspaper in Austin, Texas, […]
A couple weeks back, we posted my colleague David Cantwell’s review of the new Mark Olson & Gary Louris album Ready For The Flood, and I’ve been thinking about his thesis contention that what was most missed in the work […]
It’s unanimous, at least among NoDepression.com’s critics and readers: Alejandro Escovedo’s Real Animal was the best album of 2008. Many of you responded to the early-January posting of our annual ND Critics Poll by saying you were interested in having […]
It seems warranted today to drop in a brief mention about the latest Austin City Limits episode featuring half-hour segments by Nick Lowe and the Swell Season; it aired last night in our neck of the woods, and perhaps yours […]
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