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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For at least a few years now, country music has been spilling over into all walks of musical life, and it’s a trend that just keeps ramping up. Pop stars like Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, Post Malone, and ...

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 ...

Won't want to miss these. As country music continues to grow seemingly exponentially both here in the United States and worldwide, highlighted by the massive increase of international shows from the ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

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, ...

Snider also had walking pneumonia after he "began having trouble breathing" upon his return home from the hospital Keith Griner/Getty Todd Snider, known for leading the Americana music scene with his ...

Alt-country singer Todd Snider has died at the age of 59. Image courtesy of UPI Nov. 15 (UPI) --Alt-country singer Todd Snider has died at the age of 59. "Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to ...

Joe Ely, a Grammy-winning country artist and Texas music legend, has died. He was 78. Ely died at his home in Taos, New Mexico from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s and pneumonia, ...