Uncle Tupelo News

I first heard Circulatory System seven years ago while I was in college. I borrowed a bunch of alt-country albums from a professor of mine that changed my life.

Chuck Prophet is one of those consummate musicians who help shape the course of popular music but never get their 15 minutes of fame.

Piano-pop star Regina Spektor performs at 8 p.m. at Nokia Theatre , 1001 Performance Place, Grand Prairie.

It's always been a little difficult to get a bead on Son Volt, the alternative country band formed from the ashes of Uncle Tupelo by Jay Farrar in 1994.

Son Volt performs Thursday, November 12, at the Granada Theater. When Uncle Tupelo called it quits way back in 1994, few could have predicted the career paths of the band's two major, alt-country gurus, Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy .

Anodyne: Noun. Anything that relieves distress or pain. a When Son Volt goes onstage tonight at the Continental Club , there's an outside chance the band might pull out Doug Sahm's "Give Back the Key to My Heart" - we are in Texas, after all.

A great weekend to be outside and that's what how many of us spent it -- but on Friday and Saturday night there were two great shows to check out, if you could get a ticket.

No matter how many people he knows at a St. Louis Son Volt show, Jay Farrar will always be the guy who played a big part in creating the "alt. country" genre.

A one-man operation in Burlington, VT, Creston Electric Instruments builds fairly traditional electric guitars, generally styled in the Fender tradition, but custom-designed according to each customer's expectations.

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More headliners have been announced for the Ann Arbor Folk Festival Jan. 29-30. In addition to Iron and Wine, Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar have been added to Friday night's lineup.

Ben Gibbard played with Jay Farrar at Webster Hall with John Roderick opening. "Along with all 12 songs from the album, Farrar and Gibbard each sang a song from a different project, before finishing with a pair of covers.

October 27, 2009 - Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard take the stage together to perform songs inspired by the writings of Jack Kerouac, in a full concert webcast live on NPR Music tonight .

I winced when I heard Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard were collaborating on music inspired by Jack Kerouac's autobiographical novel Big Sur .

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris in Washington. A couple of hundred miles north of here, you get to a spectacular, wild stretch of California coastline where mountains tower over the Pacific: Big Sur.

At this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft laid out its plan for Xbox Live.

To say that Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard come from opposite ends of the musical universe is like saying the sky is blue - no matter what way you look at it, there's no denying the fact.

American author Jack Kerouac, who wrote On the Road and Big Sur, among others. Photograph by: handout, . NEW YORK a ' Best known for leading the alt-country rock bands Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, Jay Farrar teamed with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard for his latest project, an album with lyrics based on the prose from Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel ...

Wilco delighted the Toronto crowd for the second consecutive night on Thursday evening, offering fans an excellent overview of their back catalogue.

Best-known for leading the alt-country rock bands Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt , Jay Farrar teamed with Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard for his latest project, an album with lyrics based on the prose from Jack Kerouac 's 1962 novel "Big Sur" that's due Oct.