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Plant & Krauss at the Fox

Monday, February 25th, 2008

On the heels of their best-selling album, “Raising Sand;”Robert Plant & Alsion Krauss will be appearing in Detroit at the Fox Theatre on June 17. Amazing that Plant’s career has taken off so meteorically (easier to write than to say) in the last six months. Still mum about a tour with his former bandmates, but expect to see something this fall.

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No Depression magazine folds

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

No Depression the definitive publication of the alt-country, roots genre of music,  is closing up shop. Everything from the rising cost of paper to dimishing advertising has caused the bi-monthly magazine to give up the ghost. The May-June issue will be their final publication. They still plan on continuing online at www.nodepression.net

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