archiveJune 2022

The Ryman Auditorium was filled to the brim on Wednesday, June 6, as country artists and fans packed in for Darius Rucker's 13th annual charity event, Darius & Friends.This year's fundraising concert raised a record-setting $516,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.Proceeds from the show were combined with Rucker's corresponding golf...

Chris Stapleton fans attending the singer's show in Los Angeles on Friday night (June 10) were treated to an epic surprise: The singer brought his friend, country-curious pop superstar Justin Timberlake, to the stage during his set.Before bringing Timberlake out, Stapleton had high praise for his special guest. He began...

Chris Lane and Lauren Bushnell are among several member of the country music family who are expecting babies this year. This will be the second child for the Lanes — who share son Dutton Walker — but according to People, things are not going as smoothly this time around."I was recently diagnosed...

Toby Keith won't be touring in 2022. The singer has cleared his concert calendar to take time off this year. This news comes one day after the 60-year-old revealed his stomach cancer diagnosis to fans.A note from Keith's team to Taste of Country confirms the cancelations and ends any speculation about if he'd be keeping...

Chris Stapleton took his All-American Road Show to the west coast over the weekend, playing to a packed house at Los Angeles' Kia Forum on Friday (June 10). On a stage adorned by his tour's signature light bulb-centric decor, Stapleton delivered a set packed with new songs and classics from...

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s Radiohead side project the Smile have announced dates for their first American tour. It kicks off Nov. 14 at Providence, Rhode Island’s Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, and wraps up Dec. 21 at Los Angeles’ Shine Auditorium. The Smile, which also features drummer Tom Skinner, released their...

Dead & Company kicked off their 2022 tour Friday evening with an epic show at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium that was heavy on Dead standards like “Casey Jones,” “China Doll,” “Jack Straw,” and “Scarlet Begonias.” Toward the end of the second set, they broke out a cover of Traffic’s “Dear Mr....

The Kid Laroi invited some veritable legends of Australian music to join him on stage Sunday, June 12 — and not anyone from AC/DC, not Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Kylie Minogue, or Sia. Rather. Nope. It was the titans of down-under children’s entertainment, The Wiggles.  The...

Tame Impala will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Lonerism with a full-album performance of the 2012 LP at this year’s Desert Daze festival. Iggy Pop will also stage his only North American gig of 2022 at this year’s fest, invading Lake Perris, California from September 30 to October 2. Other...

One of ​​Sunny Singh’s proudest moments as a videographer was the night he got punched in the face with his own camera. Singh — who for the past decade-plus has singlehandedly built up one of the web’s most robust and widely admired archives of live-music footage on his hate5six YouTube...

Harry Styles has only performed the newest cuts from his third studio album, Harry’s House, a few times before kicking off the latest leg of his extensive “Love on Tour” trek. Still, the musician was up for the challenge of performing “Boyfriends” in just one take on the Japanese YouTube...

Maluma knows that sex sells. One need only refer to his last full-length effort, 2020’s Papi Juancho, which returned the Colombian singer and bonafide superstar to smutty form following the arena ambitions of the preceding 11:11. His ability to pivot between the after hours sinful pleasure seeking of “Felices Los...

Ohana Fest is adding a second weekend of music at the beach this October. On Monday, Eddie Vedder’s music festival announced that it will be extending itself to a second “Ohana Encore” weekend with Vedder headlining, alongside Alanis Morissette on day one and the Black Keys and Haim on day...

The Rolling Stones were just hours away from taking the stage at Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena Monday evening for the fourth date of their 60th anniversary tour when Mick Jagger announced that he had tested positive for Covid and the show wouldn’t be happening. “I’m so sorry that we’ve had...