It’s hard to come up with the right adjective to describe the nine deaths at Travis Scott’s performance at the Astroworld Festival in Houston last weekend. Tragic, horrific, needless, unthinkable, frightening — each of those, and all of them […]
Without Getting Killed or Caught, a documentary about Guy Clark, will have its streaming debut on Saturday, to coincide with what would have been the revered singer-songwriter’s 80th birthday. The on-demand version of the film includes 2½ hours of […]
The Grammys just can’t seem to get it right. First Kacey Musgraves isn’t country, and Bo Burnham isn’t comedy, and now Brandi Carlile — the Americana Music Association’s Artist of the Year for the past two years — isn’t […]
It’s been a bumpy last few years for Bloodshot Records, and the future of the Chicago-based label seems murky for sure, and bleak at best. In a long social media post Monday, co-founder Rob Miller said he is stepping […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joshua Ray Walker is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for October. Read more about Walker and his new album, See You Next Time, in our interview, and look for more all month long. Like most folks from […]
The Grammys have a lot of problems, and genre is at the heart of most of them. This year’s first nominee for Top Controversy is the decision (from an anonymous committee) to keep Kacey Musgraves’ new album, star-crossed, out […]
We all think fondly about the albums we’ve loved over the years — the ones that got us through a breakup, made us dance in our living rooms, sounded awesome when we belted them out in our cars. But much […]
The Steve Martin Banjo Prize has named two winners of its prestigious award for 2021. The honorees — Alan Munde and Don Vappie — put the wide range of the instrument’s styles and genres on full display. The prize, […]
In an awards show infused with both the joy of reunion and the sorrow of missing beloved family members, the International Bluegrass Music Association honored some pioneers in the music as well as those carrying the tradition forward Thursday evening […]
The only surprise when Alison Krauss was announced among the 2021 inductees to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame was that she wasn’t already in. So many women who play or just love the music got into it because of […]
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