EDITOR’S NOTE: To mark No Depression’s 25th anniversary this month, we asked David Menconi, a contributing editor during its earliest years (1995-2008), to check back in with artists who appeared in the magazine’s first few issues. Look for more […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is from our Summer 2020 print issue, “Tools of the Trade.” The print edition is sold out, but you can purchase the digital version here to read more great stories like this one. Start a digital […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bright Eyes is No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2020. Read our feature story about the band and their new album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, here, and read multi-instrumentalist Nate Walcott’s essay […]
The Fisk Jubilee Singers didn’t plan to release an album of Negro spirituals* and politically current songs about treating strangers with kindness in the middle of the Black Lives Matter protests — it just worked out that way. Celebrating […]
A social media post on Justin Townes Earle’s artist pages Sunday evening stated that the singer-songwriter has passed away at 38 years old. The statement remained brief, concisely informing fans and followers “of the passing of our son, husband, father […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bright Eyes is No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2020. Read our feature story about the band — Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott — and their new album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World […]
Since 2010, actor and comedian Steve Martin’s banjo prize has awarded $50,000 each year to a banjo player with outstanding technical achievements and contributions to the bluegrass community, including Rhiannon Giddens, Noam Pikelny, and Jens Kruger. As it moves […]
What would an album released in 2020 be without a couple crises thrown into the making of it? Assembled in Nashville in early March, members of Old 97s had a solid first day of recording for their new album, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bright Eyes is No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2020. Look for more about the band and their new album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, out Aug. 21, all month long. Bright […]
Barely 10 minutes into talking with Kathleen Edwards, I tell her that I’m at a crossroads in my writing career. “I don’t know what to do,” I admit, the COVID-exacerbated anxiety bubbling over. “Do I need to open a […]
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