Founding Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy celebrates his 49th birthday today. The principal singer and songwriter for the acclaimed Chicago-based group, Tweedy has been active since the late 1980s when he ...

With the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, Farrar formed Son Volt, which has put out critically successful Americana albums from 1995 through its most recent record, American Central Dust, in 2009. The band ...

It may not be entirely accurate to state Uncle Tupelo invented alternative country music, but it is very close to the truth to say that by incorporating influences as disparate as The Stooges and the ...

It took about 30 days and $18,000 to radically alter modern music. That’s what Uncle Tupelo spent between 1990 and ’92, when the group recorded three of the most influential albums in recent memory, ...

This story appears in our January/February Legends Issue. Belleville, Illinois, did not weather the 1980s particularly well. Sprawled just thirty minutes due east of St. Louis, the factory town had ...

It’s not every album that’s cool enough to inspire an entire genre. But that’s the special status enjoyed by “No Depression,” the 1990 debut by the seminal band Uncle Tupelo. The album’s title became ...

Alt-country pioneers Uncle Tupelo will be the subject of an upcoming single disc retrospective, due April 9 via Columbia/Legacy. Collecting all of the key tracks from the group's first three… By ...

It seemed like divine intervention when I received the three re-issued Uncle Tupelo CD’s in the mail a couple of weeks ago. Not at the time, mind you. That day it was just nice to put these discs on ...

The long out-of-print indie collection of Uncle Tupelo albums will finally be released on a major label, though it won’t be Warner Music, the company with which the band’s members had an extended ...

Those 10 demos, including this rough-edged version of “I Got Drunk,” are included on No Depression: Legacy Edition, a two-disc compilation that builds on Uncle Tupelo‘s 1990 debut. In addition to the ...

CD 1: Graveyard Shift; That Year; Before I Break; No Depression; Factory Belt; Whiskey Bottle; Outdone; Train; Life Worth Livin’; Flatness; So Called Friend; Screen ...

This is it: the much celebrated cornerstone of contemporary alternative country, an album so influential that its title became a synonym for the form itself. To be sure, it’s a lofty legacy for any ...