Over the years, Nashville country has absorbed the aesthetics of lots of different out-of-favor pop genres like ’70s singer-songwriter music and ’80s hair metal. Now, country is coming for ’90s alt-rock. At least, that’s the impression that I get from the lineup for next year’s Stagecoach Festival, the country mega-fest that comes to Indio, California’s Empire Polo Club right after Coachella. Stagecoach always books non-country acts; this year’s version, for example, had Lana Del Rey, Nelly, T-Pain, and Creed, among many others. But I think it’s telling that next year’s Stagecoach lineup prominently features a few past and future subjects of our Alternative Number Ones column, including Bush, Counting Crows, Third Eye Blind, and the Wallflowers.
