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 ...

Some call it y’allternative. Others call it alternative country. Some call it insurgent country music. All of those labels refer to, more or less, the same type of music. And that is alternative, ...

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) ...

In Austin, Tex. -- a town full of hotshot instrumentalists and singer-songwriters competing to inherit the halo of the great Townes Van Zandt -- being voted "Musician of the Year" by the locals means ...

The Texas Rubies are the great Chicago alt-country phenomenon that wasn’t. Lead vocalist Jane Baxter Miller and guitarist and harmony singer Kelly Kessler were Kentucky transplants who met in Chicago ...

However, at the annual country music awards in Tamworth on Saturday, the singer nailed his colours firmly to the mast of alt country and in so doing highlighted how the genre, also known as Americana ...

To say that Robbie Fulks has been one of the best singer-songwriters in American roots music over the last quarter-century would be correct, and maybe a little reductive, too; he’s one of the best ...

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider, celebrated for his unique country sound, has passed away at 59. His team announced his departure, remembering him as a "Folk Hero" and "Poet of the World." ...

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 ...

The Onion, the venerable and sometimes still scathing satirical website, has a paragraph-long story it reuses whenever there’s a mass shooting in America. Its headline reads, “ ‘No Way to Prevent This ...

No Depression magazine has new format, is a biannual and is complemented by Web site. The May/June 2008 issue, the final such issue, of No Depression magazine. RALEIGH, N.C. — Started with a meager ...