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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The indie artist Waxahatchee, known for her gut-wrenching alt-country, demonstrates mastery of her craft on her sixth studio album, “Tigers Blood.” The Alabama-raised singer-songwriter Katie ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A pit bull puppy peeing off a balcony. Mounted antlers in the kitchen on a crooked nail. Pink boiled eggs stay afloat in the brine. For its dedicated audience, the North Carolina ...

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 ...