Alternative rock was once unconventional until it became a dominant mainstream force in the 1990s. Many bands mixed classic sounds from the 60s or 70s with the spirit of punk. These opposing ...

But like most musicians, Cash fell into a lull in his career after Columbia Records dropped him in the 1980s. He worked with Mercury Records for a few years, but his releases in the late 1980s and ...

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 ...

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider is dead at age 59 after suffering a period of severe illness and complications from a recent violent assault. Snider’s company, Aimless, Inc. Headquarters, ...

Chicago country eccentrics Souled American were ahead of the curve when it came to reimagining country music in the language of alternative rock. So ahead of the curve, in fact, that they seemed to ...

Search “alternative country” and up comes a list of artists that includes Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Corb Lund, Sturgill Simpson, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Son Volt and an artist performing ...

PENDLETON — Americana, alt-country, red dirt, folk and outlaw country music are all featured as more than 30 acts will perform on three stages during the sixth annual Jackalope Jamboree at the Happy ...

Singer-songwriter Todd Snider died last week at the age of 59. Snider was a hero to many in alt-country music and the East Nashville scene he represented. In the days since his death, dozens of fellow ...

There’s a dusty crease where the wide-open range of the Western Slope meets urban sprawl, where cow-tipping is almost a spectator sport, where boot-scootin’ cattle ranchers power-lunch with city ...