#alt-country

Kelly Jean Caldwell Returns to the Outer Limits Stage to Celebrate Birdie LP

Kelly Jean Caldwell is not dead. The singer, songwriter, and owner-operator of Hamtramck’s Outer Limits Bar and record label laughs as she tells me a rumor of her death has been swirling around town. “The other day, someone at the bar was asking what’s the next show coming up,” she explains, “and...

Sara Barron

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Alt-Country Artist Tracy McNeil Explores New Beginnings on You Be The Lightning

That new chapter began with the February 2020 release of her...

Cat Woods

Ohtis and Stef Chura Team Up to Take Down Toxic Dudes with "Schatze"

Alt-country outfit Ohtis enlist the voice (and production skills) of beloved Detroit artist Stef Chura for their audio-visual fuckboy call-out “Schatze,” released digitally at the end of January (a 7" vinyl is available for pre-order ahead of its February 26 release via Saddle Creek). Starting out...

Sara Barron

5 Thought-Provoking Songs on Forthcoming Ruston Kelly LP Shape and Destroy

Kelly has crafted a thoughtful and meaningful sophomore album that extends his reign as an alt-country...

Cillea Houghton

PREMIERENikki and the Phantom Callers Share "Motor Run"

The Atlanta quartet's latest single, "Motor Run," embodies this eclectic style; the band refers to it as a "sunny garage-pop anthem with Southern rock...

Annie White

ALBUM REVIEWHaley Bonar "Last War"

Last War is immediately, unmistakably different than any record Haley Bonar's made before. Her catalogue is impressive: with ten releases in just ten years, and four full-lengths excluding the newest one, Bonar, pronounced bawn-er, has put a solid stake into her style of dark, quiet, vocal-heavy...

Carena Liptak

TRACK REVIEWHaley Bonar "No Sensitive Man"

Eight years ago, Alan Sparhawk of Low spotted twenty-year-old Haley Bonar performing at an open mic and invited her and her drummer on tour with his band. Since then, Bonar’s been busy: she’s put out five solo studio albums and started a punk side project called Gramma’s Boyfriend, which we hear...

Carena Liptak

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Gone, But Not ForeverA Jason Molina Tribute

If a voice could be like a landscape, Jason Molina's mirrored perfectly the Ohio in which I'd grown up - fertile though a bit bleak; not so dramatic but constant and comforting, even if somewhat mournful; tired cornstalks waving beneath gentle Appalachian foothills, meeting gritty, unglamorous...

Lindsey Rhoades