America, why do we love and hate thee so? For every star-spangled overseas atrocity, for every homeless child, for every Paris Hilton, there are a bunch of reasons why our country remains great. Like freedom and democracy and stuff.
But also music! And music magazines! And music magazines about America!
No Depression magazine started in 1995 as an alt-country quarterly, lyric-checking the Carter Family via Uncle Tupelo right there on the masthead. But in the decade since, their beat has expanded to cover anything remotely rootsy, earthy, swampy, or bluegrassy. If a genre takes its name from the soil, No Depression covers it, and covers it so well that "No Depression" has become a catchall supergenre unto itself.
Now that the magazine is turning 10, the editors have announced that it will henceforth sport a new logo and a new tagline: "Surveying the past, present, and future of American music." Hopefully they will be surveying Ciara, because she is so the future of American music. Furthermore, No Depression will mark the occasion inna fine Americana stylee with "10 Shows for 10 Years," taking place across the country in September.
Beginning and ending with hoedowns in Seattle, the concerts explore all shades of sepia-tone, from our beloved Sufjan Stevens to resurrected soul kingpin Solomon Burke.
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