When Americana pioneers Uncle Tupelo released their major-label debut, Anodyne on October 5th, 1993, it should have been the beginning of something big. In a way, it was. Led by Jay Farrar and ...

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).

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The start came in the mid-1990s when his then-band Uncle Tupelo played an intimate gig at a Tallahassee club. Uncle Tupelo fractured apart soon afterwards but gave rise to the less-country-fried ...