Love some good ol’ alternative country? Alt-country has made a resurgence in recent years at the juncture of country pop, but these four artists were getting weird with a famously traditional genre ...

Alternative country isn’t some brand-new genre that came about in the last few years. In fact, there have been plenty of alt-country musicians to grace our ears over the last half a century, and I ...

It's been a dramatic year for the Artists Problematically Known as Alt Country - Bonnie Billy's self-proclaimed "big" record, new albums from Wilco (their new album is out this week), Bill (Smog) ...

If you're going to nominate alt-country acts such as Flatland Cavalry, Red Clay Strays and 49 Winchester at your awards show, wouldn't it make sense to also nominate the sub-genre's very biggest stars ...

There’s a case to be made that Alternative Country, or Alt-Country as it’s more often called, hasn’t ever really been a legit genre. One will be hard-pressed to get any of the artists lumped in with ...

Started with a meager print run more than a decade ago, alternative country magazine No Depression helped launch the careers of Ryan Adams and Wilco. As it picked up subscribers and advertising ...

Todd Snider, the witty, sarcastic and occasionally dark singer-songwriter whose alt-country catalog is inextricably linked to the East Nashville neighborhood, died on Saturday. According to a social ...

HUNTINGTON — When one uses the label “alt. country” with an artist like Kelsey Waldon, it fits because of the formulaic state of big radio country music these days on one side of the ledger compared ...

It might have been the best little badly named music festival Raleigh has ever known. A late-January fixture at the now-bulldozed Brewery from 1996 until 2002, S.P.I.T.T.L.E. Fest gathered a dozen or ...