Its online edition was largely crowd-sourced by contributions from a combination of writers and fans, regular columnists and staff reviewers.

[6] No Depression has received the Utne Reader Independent Press Awards for Arts & Literature coverage,[7] and was cited as one of the nation's Top 20 magazines of any kind in 2004 by the Chicago Tribune.

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.

[9][10] 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.

[citation needed] In the wake of the magazine going out of print, No Depression launched a community website (NoDepression.com) on the Ning platform in February 2009.