Just days after the massive CMA Music Festival wrapped up in Nashville, country music’s Kacey Musgraves played to a packed house at Music City’s Bridgestone Arena. The crowd watching her skewed much younger than the audience who had just attended the four-day country-music orgy that takes place throughout the city’s …
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With the breakneck pace of the modern news cycle, last summer’s tragic Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, already feels like a lifetime ago. But it’s one event that Jesse Dayton won’t forget any time soon – and on his fiery new protest song “Charlottesville,” the Austin singer-guitarist makes …
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The day before his ninth studio album The Mountain comes out, Dierks Bentley will play the project for fans with a special, late-night performance in Nashville during CMA Music Festival. Set for June 7th at the Ryman Auditorium, the event will begin at 10:00 p.m. and features Bentley performing The …
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Country-rock duo Muscadine Bloodline provide the soundtrack for one couple’s romantic dance in the new video for “Can’t Tell You No,” from their newly released Movin’ On EP. Duo members Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton and their band sport crisp, black tuxedos befitting the entertainment at a school dance, with …
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Fresh off his third consecutive ACM Entertainer of the Year win, Jason Aldean booked a rare club appearance in New York City on Wednesday, April 18th, delivering an intimate set at the Grand Ole Opry’s new Times Square outpost, the Opry City Stage. Backed by his full touring band for …
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After 2016’s Ken Coomer-produced Skyline in Central Time, Andrew Leahey returns with a more guitar-forward new song, the anthemic “Start the Dance,” a fist-pumping slice of heartland rock. Leahey (a contributor to Rolling Stone Country) is a Nashville regular, who, when he isn’t fronting his band the Homestead, has been …
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Since her 1990 debut LP, Well Travelled Love, Kelly Willis has populated her albums with a smart blend of twangy country, rollicking rockers and adventurous cover tunes. But one could be forgiven for needing a bit of a refresher on Willis’ outstanding solo records – it’s been 11 years since …
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As leader of the Gramblers, Nicki Bluhm spent a decade resurrecting the sounds of California’s roots-music glory days. She was like a West Coast ambassador, her music caught halfway between the festival-friendly twang of Workingman’s Dead, the countercultural poise of the Laurel Canyon folk scene and the coed, harmony-heavy swoon …
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After a five-year break, Sugarland reunited for their first full-band live concert earlier this month, a show in Dublin as part of the Country to Country Festival. They followed it up with two more shows at C2C – one in London, one in Glasgow – offering a preview of what …
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On Monday, during his regular Inside Studio G Facebook Live video series, Garth Brooks offered praise and support for March for Our Lives, the rally for gun control legislation taking place this weekend in Washington, D.C., and all around the country. “Your generation is the generation for the school shootings. …
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