Lydia Loveless (née Ankrom, born September 4, 1990) is an American alternative country[1] singer-songwriter from Columbus, Ohio.

[13] Loveless clarified that they like the songs they wrote, but the drawn-out process (over three years) to get the album released influenced their feelings about the project.

Loveless and their band drove 20 hours to Austin, Texas, and ended up playing for Bloodshot owners Rob Miller and Nan Warshaw at the 2010 South by Southwest music festival.

[14] In 2012, signed with Bloodshot and determined to make a more raw and edgier album, they released Indestructible Machine with songs that feature themes of frustration with their hometown, drinking, depression, and a humorous song about being stalked by a man who referred to himself as Steve Earle but was not in fact the singer of "Copperhead Road".

[3][14] Spin characterized the record as standing out "for its utter lack of bullshit", with "roaring vocals, in her narrators' lived-in-bars recklessness, and in her overall inability to mince words.

[3][4][18][19] Greg Kot wrote that Loveless' "defiant tone is matched by songs that put country and punk on equal ground, unvarnished and direct".

[26][27] Stereogum said Loveless is using their "unmistakable voice as a songwriter, and she's only getting better at using it to blur the line between running her mouth and pouring out her heart.

[29] The record includes "Head", a single Loveless wrote with their guitar player, Todd May, a fellow songwriter.

"One Voice" was released on Record Store Day, April 16, 2016, with profits from the sale of the single going to benefit animal charities.

[37][38] Their first ever music video, for the album's first single "Longer" received its world premiere through Rolling Stone in July 2016.

Club called Real "an adventurous, brutal honest sucker punch",[43] while The Boston Globe said, "Loveless continues to manifest a remarkable combination of bruised vulnerability and desperate longing, alongside a tough, self-deprecating resilience, but there's more of the former and less of the latter this time.

[45] Loveless released their fourth studio album Daughter through their own label, Honey, You're Gonna Be Late Records on September 25, 2020.

"[49] In October 2015, Bechard and his crew filmed a live Lydia Loveless concert at Skully's in their hometown of Columbus for the documentary.

[8] Loveless is an avowed fan of Kesha, and has played "Blind" in their live shows, as well as in a recording featured on their Boy Crazy and Single(s) release.

[52][53] In addition to touring extensively Loveless has performed at many in-studio radio shows, including Daytrotter, KEXP-FM, and NPR.

[2] Loveless' younger brother, Nate, is the drummer of Shores of Elysium, a death metal/deathcore band from Columbus, Ohio.