When it was announced that they were ceasing to publish No Depression magazine, who far and away featured the best coverage of Americana, indie-folk and alt-country, I’d like to think I knew how the publishers felt. Rug pulled out from under you anyone? So with no small amount of joy I’m happy to pass along the good news that NoDepression.com is getting a shot in the arm come this September.

Plans for a major overhaul of NoDepression.com — the website of the former bimonthly alternative/roots-music magazine No Depression — are well under way this summer, with the new site set to be launched in late September.
NoDepression.com, which will be edited by the magazine’s founding co-editor Peter Blackstock, will include regular blogs by many of the magazine’s most frequent contributors, including Blackstock and fellow founding co-editor Grant Alden. The new site will also include record reviews and live reviews, features on emerging artists, news updates, the current website’s popular upcoming-releases list, reader-participant discussion forums — and, perhaps most significantly, a vast and cross-referenced archive featuring almost all the content from No Depression magazine’s 75 issues published from 1995 to 2008.
In preparation for the September relaunch, the website is promoting the No Depression Founders Circle, a way for fans and supporters of the magazine to assist with its continued presence on the internet. In addition, those who sign up for the website’s mailing list at NoDepression.com will be eligible to win an Epiphone DR-100 Vintage Sunburst acoustic guitar which has been provided by Epiphone.

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If you would be offended by a video of an old man getting run over in the middle of the street, then nobody helping him, then you probably shouldn’t watch this.

An 78-year-old man was badly injured in a hit-and-run accident - he is in critical condition and the culprit is still at large. Connecticut police have released this video, “to show what we have become.”

American cities are gnarly as F.