Stagecoach Festival started out as the “country Coachella,” but has been morphing into a new home for ’90s rock bands ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

If one isn’t familiar with country and maybe quick to judge it, then they probably believe that all country music consists of tis rucks, beer, and backroads. That isn’t the case in the slightest. Some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty-something years after Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Tompall Glaser Jerry Jeff Walker and a whole host of others set up the framework for outlaw country, the movement is alive ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- 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 ...