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As we announced a couple months ago, our May-June issue will be the final print edition of No Depression magazine. However, we have a couple of significant updates for you regarding what's on the ND horizon.
As noted when we posted the news about the magazine, we'll be continuing with our website. Hopefully you've noticed that we've already begun adding fresh content to the site, with our recently-introduced sections for reviews of new releases, reissues, and live shows. We're also working on a new, enhanced website -- and to that end, we'd be interested in hearing what you might want to see on it.
To help us shape the future of www.nodepression.com, we'd be grateful if you'd take our web-survey: Click here to take the survey
Here is a link for sending in emails. Click here to send emails.
In addition, if you're not already on our e-mail list, we'd love to have you sign up -- you can do so on our homepage, in the upper-right-hand corner (just enter your e-mail address in the box provided there). It's free, of course, and we'll be sending our list members occasional perks provided by some of the record labels who have been longtime ND advertisers.
There's also news on the print front. While our May-June issue will be our last in bimonthly-magazine form, we're very happy to announce that we will be teaming up with University of Texas Press to present a semiannual "bookazine." Envisioned as a sort of hybrid between a book and a magazine, this new No Depression creation will make its debut in the fall. Look for 1 (or "76", as we'll dub it, in deference to the magazine's precedence) in the music-books section of your local bookstore -- and also watch this space for upcoming details about ordering subscriptions. (If you're a current subscriber to the magazine, we'll soon be sending you a note in the mail regarding the transition.)
Just as when the magazine started, the bookazine will become principally a hobby for its editors, at least for starters, with the possibility that it may grow into more. In terms of the content and presentation, we're going into largely uncharted territory here -- also much as was the case when we started the magazine.
Some of the details will become clearer as we get further into the process of creating the first edition. Generally speaking, what we envision is that the bookazine will continue to provide a home for our long-form pieces which have less chance of transitioning to the website, where the editorial focus will be on more timely elements such as live reviews, record reviews, and news reports.
We envision these two endeavors complementing each other in a way that allows No Depression to move forward into the new media frontier, both on the web and in print -- albeit at a different scale in both realms than we have been in the past.
Meantime, watch your mailboxes and newsstands for ND 75, our bimonthly-magazine finale. We believe it's one of the very best issues we've done in our thirteen years; we'd love to hear your thoughts about it too. We'll still be talking about music here at www.nodepression.com -- so come on back!
Peter Blackstock
Grant Alden
Kyla Fairchild
On our website, No Depression Official Site , you can discover details about our current and past issues and a sampling of our magazines content.
We've added a handful of web-only extras to complement our print edition, including a sampling of MP3s, freshened every two months (or as circumstances warrant). To listen, please click this banner:
Please click on the banner to go directly to our Hear The Music page and hear tracks by the following artists during the months of March and April 2008! ENJOY!
No Depression co-founders and co-editors Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock check in regularly with blog reports. To visit the blogs now, please click on these banners.
For the record, a little history: No Depression was launched in September 1995 as a quarterly publication and became bimonthly in September 1996.
The name of the magazine refers to the 1930s Carter Family song No Depression In Heaven, the 1990 Uncle Tupelo album No Depression, and an internet discussion board.
Ranked 20th by the Chicago Tribune among the 50 best magazines available in the United Sates in June of 2004.
Winner, Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for 2001, Best Arts and Literature Coverage.
Featured on NPR's "Weekend Edition", and in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Tower, Pitchfork, Pulse, Request, Entertainment Weekly, Alternative Press, Lucky Magazine...
A clarification: Though this is the official MySpace site for No Depression Magazine -- the page was created and is caretaken by our esteemed employee Trish Wagner -- it's not really a place to interact with the magazine's co-editors (Peter Blackstock and Grant Alden), as they are not MySpace members themselves. Blackstock and Alden do maintain a presence on the official website (www.nodepression.net) and can be e-mailed via that portal. Thanks for stopping by and checking us out.
This Is What It Sounds Like Volume 2
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TRACK LISTING:
1. Jay Farrar Station to Station
2. Patty Loveless Sounds of Loneliness
3. Resentments World So Full
4. Kieran Kane Will You Miss Me
5. Paul Burch & The WPA Ballclub I Am Here
6. Drive-By-Truckers Outfit
7. Shaver Blood Is Thicker Than Water
8. Caitlin Cary with Ryan Adams The Battle (Previously unreleased commercially)
9. Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard The One I Love Is Gone
10. Julie Miller I Can't Cry Hard Enough (out of print)
11. Rosanne Cash September When It Comes
12. June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash Far Side Banks of Jordan
13. Flatlanders Hello Stranger (Previously available only in the UK)
Even after ten years we are still obliged to explain just what No Depression might
be. Hence the disc in your hands. Chronologically, then: A Carter Family song from
the 1930s, the title track to Uncle Tupelos 1990 debut album, the name of an
early internet discussion board, and an independently published American music
magazine. This compilation is our second audio attempt to introduce ourselves,
and is meant to serve as a companion piece to the second bound anthology produced on that same errand, The Best Of No Depression: Writing About American
Music,published the fall of 2005 by the University of Texas Press. These songs,
then, go with some of the stories within that book. Not all of the stories, for there
isn't room on one disc for all those songs, and not every track one might wish to
show off is available for licensing. We have chosen songs that seemed central to
those stories, representative of the artist, or, occasionally, simply music that had
not been broadly distributed which we felt emboldened to share. One never knows how these things will turn out until
they're done. This turns out to be a suite of mostly sad songs about leaving and longing and what comes after. Maybe
they're even a little depressing, but they're also beautiful pieces of work. The second half of the record is marked by vocal
pairings Johnny & Rosanne, Hazel & Alice, Caitlin & Ryan, Billy Joe & Eddy, Joe & Jimmie, Johnny & June not by design,
but sometimes the pieces just fall into place on their own. Were simply happy to have them all here.
Peter Blackstock and Grant Alden (Editors of No Depression)
The Best of No Depression-Writing about American Music (Alden/Blackstock)
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From the University of Texas website:Since the magazine's founding in 1995, No Depression has reported on and helped define the music that goes by names such as alt.country, Americana, and roots music. Though dismissed by the commercial country music establishment as "music that doesn't sell," alternative country has attracted thousands of listeners who long for the authenticity and rich complexity that come from its potent blend of country and rock 'n' roll and any number of related musical genres and subgenres.To celebrate No Depression's tenth anniversary and spotlight some of the most important artists and trends in alt.country music, editors Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock have compiled this anthology of twenty-five of the magazine's best and most representative feature articles. Their subjects range from venerated country artists such as Johnny Cash and Ray Price to contemporary songwriters such as Lucinda Williams and Buddy and Julie Miller to the post-punk country-influenced bands Wilco and the Drive-By Truckers. All of the articles included here illustrate No Depression's commitment to music writing that puts the artist front-and-center and covers his or her career in sufficient depth to be definitive. Alden and Blackstock have also written a preface to this volume in which they discuss the alt.country phenomenon and the history and editorial philosophy that have made No Depression the bible for everyone seeking genuine American roots music.
