Yes, I know.Maybe everything bitched about them is true; an eye-watering marketing push, cynically calculated, monied, etc.

Duos and special projects dominate our list of favorite traditional acoustic Americana in 2025. Of course I mean Amy Alvey and myself, hosts of The Old Fashioned on WMOT. Just as we love collaborating ...

Avery County native Jacob Burleson has continued to get better at playing the guitar and the mandolin, and now, as a young ...

Antidepressants IT was the year when those noisy Mancunian brothers brought the Britpop Nineties back to packed stadiums ...

Ethan Tuttle joined the WAFB news team in August of 2024. He is from Des Moines, IA, and graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in ...

MerleFest, presented by Window World, has added Railroad Earth, The Infamous Stringdusters, Joy Oladokun, Maggie Rose, The Castellows, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, and more to its 2026 ...

For nine years here at WMOT, I’ve been proud and privileged to select and remark on thirty albums from the closing year that meet several criteria. Some made national news and did well on the ...