Sixteen years after its founding, Record Store Day is still going strong as a way to bring exclusive and highly anticipated titles, and thus customers, to the independent record stores that are a cornerstone of the music community. This year, […]
Every Willie Nelson concert is a party, but at the Hollywood Bowl in April, the party is for him. A two-night concert dubbed “Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90” will celebrate Nelson’s 90th birthday with a jaw-dropping lineup that […]
Maybe a star-studded reality show is what it’s going to take to finally get mainstream country music to let someone other than white dudes onto the radio. Kacey Musgraves and actress Reese Witherspoon are producing an eight-episode series titled […]
There’s a lot to be learned at a band’s soundcheck. The band gets a feel for the room, the sound engineers find out each band member’s preferences and needs, lighting gets calibrated, stuff gets plugged in and taped down […]
Zach Bryan was hating on Ticketmaster before Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen fans made it cool. And he hates them a lot — so much that he titled his new album, recorded live at Red Rocks and surprise-released on […]
As it was digitizing old student records, a school district in Winchester, Virginia, discovered a piece of country music history. In one of the files was an essay written by Patsy Cline when she was an eighth-grader at Gore […]
The Apple TV series Carpool Karaoke, which pairs celebrities for a ride peppered with songs, conversation, and always some surprises, dropped its fifth season last weekend, including an episode with members of Wilco and comedian Nikki Glaser filmed in […]
It was incredibly hard to take the news this week of the untimely death of Peter Cooper, a Nashville-based country music journalist and a musician himself. He passed away Tuesday at the age of 52 after sustaining a head […]
Bob Dylan left some fans feeling tangled up recently when some sharp-eyed buyers of his new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, noticed their “hand-signed” copies looked suspiciously similar. Turns out they were signed by an autopen, which was […]
It’s not just me, and it’s not just you: The encore is starting to feel a little awkward for everyone. We pretty much know bands are going to do one, so watching them awkwardly set down their instruments, walk […]
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