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, ...

NEW YORK – 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 ...

Tyler Childers could have done whatever he wanted. The Kentuckian singer-songwriter broke through in 2017 with “Purgatory,” a collection of immediately satisfying neo-traditional country songs ...

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 ...

A popular Lancaster alt-country band of the aughts will play in public for the first time in roughly a decade this week — and this time, they’re doing it for the kids. After six months of secret ...

Americana artists draw from American roots music, but many also mix punk and rock with the early sounds of country, folk, and bluegrass. While Americana is now more commonly used to describe the ...