Today marks a new dawn for No Depression as we continue the journey online. On October 1, we launched NoDepression.com. While traffic to the website has been great and the response positive, we have determined that it is impossible to bring in enough revenue to support our basic business expenses, the largest chunk of that [...]

Robbie Fulks’ self-imposed touring exile of the last year and a half has been hell for fans who swarm to his over-the-top stage shows. Those fans will be rewarded for their patience later this month when Fulks releases 50, count ‘em, 50 new songs – all at once – on his website, robbiefulks.com. The pallet-load [...]

In case you missed it, change is the order of the day. Not surprisingly that’s showing up in music too. As the airwaves reach a saturation point with American Idol wannabes and Auto-Tune afraid-to-bes, there are better-than-edge-of-the-radar-signs of a turning: other voices, other choices. Bettye Lavette leaves Kennedy Center and nationwide television audiences slackjawed with [...]

For many years Michael Chandler has been on a journey – sure, you can go ahead and call it a crusade – to a place where he could make an album like Have You Heard About The World? A gospel record with indie pedigree, country-soul undercurrents, and a take-responsibility message. A gospel record on which [...]

Over a dozen years down the road, it’s hard to remember the exact wording of the message that Mark Rubin of the Bad Livers sent to the Postcard music listserv. The post was about Austin, Texas, band the Gourds, specifically the band’s debut album Dem’s Good Beeble, and it went something like this: “You need [...]

In the suh-un, the group harmonizes, In the su-uh-uh-un. Dollops of sweet guitar bend to the floor, like a Stax house band fatigued after recording until dawn but not yet ready to call it a night. The music lazes as if drifting from a front porch in August, the only shade across a horizon of [...]