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 ...

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 ...

Recorded with punk producer Matt Allison in nearby Champaign, Illinois, it includes early versions on a few of Uncle Tupelo’s well-known songs, such as “Whiskey Bottle” and “Screen Door.” ...

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).

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Grammy Award-winner Jeff Tweedy, the frontman and lead songwriter for Wilco who hails from the Midwest up Chicago-way, has a long relationship with Tallahassee. The start came in the mid-1990s ...