Tracing the arc of Richmond Fontaine's career, you can't help but notice that while the band's sound has evolved from brash to more subdued, confessional-style country rock, its subject matter has essentially stayed the same. Fontaine's ethos was ...

The rise of alt-country music in the early '90s was inextricably linked to the legendary band Uncle Tupelo, which before its demise gave birth to a lineage complicated enough to warrant a Ken Burns documentary. One of the better bands Tupelo inspi...

Pneumonia was a long time coming. Recorded in 1999, it was a casualty of the Universal-Polygram merger that killed the group's Outpost label and left the alt-country standard-bearers in limbo for the better part of three years. The good news: Pneu...