No Depression (periodical)
Issue 74 of No Depression magazine (March/April 2008)
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| Editor | Kim Ruehl |
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| Categories | Music magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | FreshGrass Foundation |
| First issue | September 1995 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | nodepression |
| ISSN | 1088-4971 |
No Depression is a quarterly roots music journal with a concurrent online publication at nodepression.com.
In print, No Depression is a ~150-page ad-free publication focused on longform music reporting and deep analysis that ties contemporary artists with the long chain of American roots music. Its content is exclusive to print and its contributors include popular roots music artists as well as professional critics and reporters, photographers, illustrators, and fine artists.
No Depression online is largely crowd-sourced by professional writers and roots music fans alike, and it also employs a handful of regular columnists and staff reviewers.
Since 1995, No Depression has helped to preserve and define the evolution of American roots music and all its forms: alt-country, Americana, folk, bluegrass, blues, and roots-rock and roll.
No Depression was launched in September 1995 (as a quarterly) by co-editors/co-founders Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock. Kyla Fairchild, who handled the business functions of the magazine from the beginning, became a co-publisher with Alden and Blackstock in 1998. The magazine was named for the Carter Family song "No Depression in Heaven," the 1990 album No Depression by the band Uncle Tupelo, and an early AOL online discussion group on alternative country called The No Depression Folder.
Over the course of thirteen years, No Depression gradually grew into one of the nation's most prominent and broad-ranging bimonthly music publications until it ceased its initial print operations in June 2008. Along the way, No Depression received Utne Reader Independent Press Awards for Arts & Literature coverage, and was cited as one of the nation's Top 20 magazines of any kind in 2004 by the Chicago Tribune.
Other ventures during the company's print history included a No Depression Tour (featuring Whiskeytown, the Old 97's, Hazeldine, and the Picketts) in 1997; two best-of anthologies published by Dowling Press (1998) and University of Texas Press (2005); and the No Depression Radio Show, which aired on dozens of stations across the United States in 2002 and 2003.
Two No Depression music festivals took place at Marymoore Park, just outside Seattle. The first was on July 11, 2009 and featured Gillian Welch, Iron and Wine, Patterson Hood and the Screwtopians, Jesse Sykes, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Zee Avi, and Seattle roots music all-stars. The second was August 21, 2010 and featured The Swell Season, Lucinda Williams, The Cave Singers, Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet, Sera Cahoone, and The Maldives.
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