It doesn't seem possible that Uncle Tupelo has been gone for 10 years. Consider "Train," from the group's first album, 1990's No Depression. At 2:15am, Jeff Tweedy's aimless young hero is parked ...

Meredith Ochs has a review of a new Uncle Tupelo anthology that complies highlights from the band's four albums along with rare tracks. The collection highlights the music that helped launch a ...

Uncle Tupelo made No Depression for just $3,500 (the studio’s house producers, Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie, lent Farrar the same 1961 Les Paul guitar J. Mascis jammed on Dinosaur Jr.’s Bug).

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.

Uncle Tupelo was never really a political band, but the group had a socially conscious side. Like most of their alt-country peers, the influential trio (and later quintet) often romanticized a ...

Jay Farrar is best known as one-half of alt-country forefathers Uncle Tupelo (the other half being Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy) and for his later work with various incarnations of country-rockers Son Volt.

“I used to work at a bookstore that directly faced the brewery across Main Street,” recalls Jay Farrar, guitarist and singer for the legendary Belleville trio Uncle Tupelo. “I remember when ...

It’s the same recipe Farrar relied on in the early 1990s when he was part of the pioneering, gone-but-not-forgotten Illinois-based trio Uncle Tupelo. In 2017’s “Sinking Down,” a roadhouse ...

But the seeds of the project go back considerably further than that. In the early 1990s, Farrar’s band Uncle Tupelo frequently played at a tiny, underground St. Louis live music dive called ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting May 1st, 1994 - Buy Uncle Tupelo: The Last Leg of the Andodyne Tour DVD ...