How to Use alt-country in a Sentence

alt-country

noun
  • Red-dirt alt-country band Southall will open.
    — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • They’ve been name-checked by later alternative-rock acts and alt-country acts as well.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The record is nitty-gritty garage-rock and sweaty alt-country under the haze of neon barroom lights.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Our focus is alternative – alt-rock, alt-pop, alt-country, and indie rock.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Americana star Todd Snider, a prominent voice in alt-country, has died at age 59.
    — Audrey Gibbs, USA Today, 16 Nov. 2025
  • To anyone who doesn’t know Amba’s track record, their reinvention may read as just another shoegaze-leaning alt-country record.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 9 June 2026
  • And among the most welcome transplants is this alt-country outfit led by Miles Patzer, whose visceral holler might make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
    — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • The alt-country duo from Minneapolis known as the Cactus Blossoms will open the show.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Welsh was also the lead singer in the alt-country band Meatyard, which recently completed an album that will be released later this year.
    — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The Context Snider's death marks the loss of a pivotal figure in Americana, alt-country and folk music.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • This week’s crop of new music features songs from mainstream country hitmakers, rising artists and surging alt-country successes.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Jackpot are back at it in 2025 after a decade-long break from their quirky, narcotic alt-country balladry and discount bin disco funk.
    — Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
  • From classic rockers to cutting-edge artists, their choices span pop, alt-country, Americana, hip-hop, soul, punk, ska, and R&B.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • The annual music festival brings some of the biggest names in rock and roll, alt-country, bluegrass, jazz, indie, gospel, Americana and more.
    — Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The North Carolina band’s blend of alt-country, alt-rock, and shoegaze was exactly what the doctor ordered on an overcast afternoon.
    — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Bruce Tull, guitarist and pedal steel player for the Nineties alt-country outfit Scud Mountain Boys, has died.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
  • Grimes was previously part of alt-country band Mitchell’s Folly, which released an album in 2008.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Todd Snider, a singer, songwriter, and raconteur who helped shape the alt-country and Americana music movements, died Friday.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Released this spring as Seabird’s third album, Trash Mountain is an exquisitely bittersweet alt-country song cycle about love, loss, and friendship.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025
  • Her 1998 alt-country classic landed at Number 98 on our Greatest Albums list.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
  • Aside from the elaborate, intricate beauty of the graphic novel, the album itself is a collection of original songs, either penned by Keen or members of his alt-country band.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The alt-country crooner, who has never revealed his face publicly under his artist persona, confirmed the news in an interview with the New York Times on Monday.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The Byron Bay trio reimagined the alt-country classic through their signature laidback lens, dialing up the distortion while keeping the song’s emotional core intact.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Todd Snider, the renowned Americana and alt-country singer-songwriter celebrated for his sharp wit and poignant storytelling, died on Friday at the age of 59.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Before slipping into silence in the mid-’90s, Souled American had morphed from rootsy alt-country band to adding ambient shades and slowcore to their music.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Even a few left-field choices made the cut, like outlaw torchbearer Nikki Lane and the fascinatingly weird alt-country singer-songwriter Paul Cauthen.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • His 2004 album East Nashville Skyline is considered essential to the alt-country catalog.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2025
  • This isn’t alt-country so much as death-rattle country, as though Grigoroff and Adducci took Hank Williams’ most wincingly lonesome numbers as a starting point but figured the tempos were a little too fast.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Formed in 2023, the alt-country group is speedrunning to mainstream success, and is expected to be featured in national coverage in 2026, with more touring and social media exposure.
    — Austin American Statesman, 12 Jan. 2026

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