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After a video confirming an announcement, a photo in the studio from producer Jack Antonoff, and a sleek logo update, Lana Del Rey has officially announced the new album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, out March 10, 2023, and released the LP’s title track. “Fuck me to death,” she sings on the track’s chorus, co-written with Mike Hermosa. “Love me until I love myself/There’s a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard.” The song clocks in at nearly five minutes and features her sultry vocals seamlessly floating across...

Kentucky natives Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan have been tapped as headliners for Railbird Music Festival 2023.The two-day festival will return to Lexington, Ky., on June 3-4 and features an eclectic lineup of performers. Along with a closing set from Bryan, Saturday's roster includes appearances from Weezer, Marcus Mumford, Whiskey Myers, Sheryl Crow, Charley Crockett, Jenny Lewis, Lucius, Morgan Wade, Valerie June, Dehd, Neal Francis, The Heavy Heavy, Madeline Edwards, The Local Honeys and Wayne Graham.Railbird's second and final day of festivities features sets from Nathaniel Ratliff & the Night...

Shania Twain arrived at this year’s 2022 People’s Choice Awards to perform her ’90s country-pop smashes, “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” The Canadian country superstar also received the Music Icon award for her record-breaking hits and immeasurable impact on generations of artists. “Reba’s brand was ‘somebody should leave,’ Trisha’s was a little ‘please don’t leave’ and Faith had ‘no one would ever leave me, obviously,’” singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose once told Rolling Stone, “but Shania’s brand was, ‘I will take no shit and all of your money, thanks!’...

Drive-By Truckers are hitting the road next year in support of their recently released 14th career studio album, Welcome 2 Club XIII. The beloved Southern rock outfit will kick off their trek on March 9 at The Vogue in Indianapolis, Ind. The run includes several stops with multiple nights, including the band's annual four-day HeAthen's Homecoming celebration, held at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Ga.. The string of 2023 dates also includes multiple nights in Washington, D.C., New York City and Asheville, N.C. Rising singer-songwriter Margo Cilker will open the first half...

The new year is quickly approaching, and the long list of A-list stars performing during ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, has been revealed! ABC revealed the packed lineup on Tuesday, which features the likes of Aly & AJ, K-pop group Tomorrow X Together, and Fitz and the Tantrums. The trio of groups will perform in a pre-taped celebration at Anaheim’s Disneyland Resort and will be joined by co-host Ciara, Shaggy, Halle Bailey, Lauren Spencer Smith, and Ben Platt, along with country artists Maddie &...

Country music reached an inevitable crossroads in 2022. The dialogues around the genre's history of exclusion — from the disappearance of women from country radio beginning in the early 2000s to the marginalized artists who've made history despite not fitting into the mainstream mold — continued to dominate the conversation. The year's best country music books explore all those histories and the history-making careers of the genre's most iconic acts.From Margo Price's unflinching memoir to an exhaustive biography of Merle Haggard, these ten books represent a wide-reaching spectrum of what...

Jim Stewart, co-founder of R&B label Stax and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, died on Monday, longtime staff Stax songwriter David Porter confirmed on Monday. Stewart was 92. “No way a poor kid from a housing project’s picture in Memphis would be on a bus rolling through Memphis if it were not for this man, JIM STEWART the ST of the word Stax,” Porter wrote in a social media caption with a photo of the Stax Museum bus (the museum is located at the original location of Stax Records)....

Matty Healy stepped away from the 1975 to jam out with emo rockers Dashboard Confessional. During the Chris Carrabba-led band’s set at the Audacy Beach Festival — which the 1975 co-headlined — in Florida, Healy jammed out on electric guitar with the rest of the group for their closing song “Hands Down.” “Emo multiverse is glitching,” Healy captioned a video of him dancing around while playing electric guitar and singing along to the lyrics. Healy spoke to Audacy, which hosted the festival, about joining Carrabba on stage “for five minutes,”...

In December 2000, the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its accompanying soundtrack put bluegrass and traditional country music in the pop culture spotlight. The Coen Brothers satirical comedy-drama about three Great Depression-era chain gang escapees, loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, prominently features the music of Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley and many others, and both the film and its soundtrack were massive successes.Throughout O Brother, Where Art Thou?, music plays a key role: Escaped convicts Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), Pete (John Turtorro) and Delmar O'Donnell (Tim Blake Nelson), along with blues musician...

Eighteen years ago today (Dec. 4, 2004), Gary Allan notched his third No. 1 single, "Nothing on But the Radio." The song, which was written by Byron Hill, Brice Long and Odie Blackmon, was the third single from Allan's 2003 album, See If I Care.The sexy lyrics of "Nothing on But the Radio" -- including lines such as, "We'll fall asleep here in the moonlight / In tangled sheets, we'll be here all night / And when we wake up in the morning / We might stay like this all day ......

Weeknd Teaser Singer shared that something Avatar: The Way of Water-related is coming on Dec. 16 The Weeknd has shared a short teaser video on Twitter, which hints that new music is coming from him very soon. In the 12-second clip, a chorus sings as a visual of a watery, blue “A” with a bird in the middle of the letter appears. He captioned it “12.16.22,” a date that also appears towards the end of the video. Shortly after sharing his mysterious video, the singer born Abel Tesfaye retweeted the...

Before getting married on Dec. 5, 1993, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band co-founder Jeff Hanna and talented songwriter Matraca Berg bonded in a very sweet (literally) way. The two met on tour with Clint Black in the late 1980s, and before every show, they ate pie together -- a tradition Berg says was "so country.""We were married to different people when we met. And, in fact, our spouses were friends of each other. It’s a long story. But both of our marriages imploded," Hanna recalls, adding that, "after the dust settled" from his divorce, he was unaware that Berg had divorced...

In the last few years, CJ Strock, a talent agent who worked with the later incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band, faced an unusual dilemma. As seen in catalog and merch sales, a market still existed for the Allmans, their quintessentially Southern rock & roll, and their improvisational live shows, but the band itself didn’t exist: They formally gave their last performances in 2014, and Gregg Allman died of liver cancer three years later.  With an eye toward introducing new fans to the band, Strock had an idea — essentially a...

Kentucky native Brit Taylor recruited Texas country outfit Mike & the Moonpies for her new Christmas single "Lonely on Christmas."The tune is an old-fashioned, honky tonk lament about the pain of not having anyone around during the holidays. In the music video, the Moonpies' Mike Harmeier joins Taylor through her television from a bar. She's home alone, surrounded by tinsel and lights, and he's flying solo at his local watering hole, lamenting their solitude during the holiday season.While the pair share their loneliness, the song's message encourages others to reach...