The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival pulled the plug on its plans for a 2021 event, scheduled for October, due to rising COVID-19 cases in the city. “As a result of the current exponential growth of new COVID […]
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If you’re of a certain age, you remember when MTV played … music … and how those videos that your mom probably didn’t want you watching were absolutely formative to your later music fandom. There are a whole bunch of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jade Bird is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for August 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Different Kinds of Light, coming Aug. 13, all month long. Jade Bird has only recently gotten comfortable with […]
Lydia Jacoby has been one of the headline names to emerge from the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The 17-year-old from Seward, Alaska, won a gold medal in swimming this week after a thrilling upset in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke […]
The Newport Folk Festival gets rolling today, with several adjustments to the usual event due to COVID-19, including a vaccination or negative test requirement and a split into two three-day events. But one tradition staying firmly intact is a curated […]
Sturgill Simpson has announced his latest musical project, a concept album titled The Ballad of Dood and Juanita, set for release Aug. 20. “I just wanted to write a story — not a collection of songs that tell a […]
The 32nd annual International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards nominees were announced in a livestream Tuesday morning from Nashville’s Station Inn. The nominees largely hewed to a list of usual suspects, with a lot of overlap with last year’s […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Yola is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for July 2021. Read more about her and her new album, Stand For Myself (out July 30), in our feature story, and look for more from Yola all month long. […]
Fiddle player Byron Berline could play bluegrass and old-time with the best of them (and, in fact, he did, with a stint as one of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys early in his career), but he knew how to […]
As the wheels of tour buses (and vans and cars) start rolling again, there have been some interesting effects on artists and venues. After all, usually tours are cyclical and not everyone is doing it at the same time, […]
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