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Lee Brice will make more than 20 stops this summer on his just-announced Label Me Proud Tour, a cross-country trek that kicks off in Hampton Beach, N.H.Michael Ray is joining Brice on tour, along with additional supporting act Jackson Dean. On one D.C. show in July, Tyler Farr and Tim Montana will appear on the lineup."Man, it feels good to announce this tour!" Brice gushes in a press release. "It's been a while since we've all been back out on the road and to have my good buddies, Michael Ray and Jackson...

Released last summer to tease Machine Gun Kelly’s sixth album, the single “Papercuts,” with its strummy Cobain-pain guitar and brain-stewing power chords, was met with a mild shrug of support. According to the proverbial “people on the Internet,” it was seen as another lateral “rock” move from the ex-mixtape rapper signed by Diddy in 2011 as a much-belated retort to Dr. Dre’s Eminem gambit. Although his 2020 pop-punk bid Tickets to My Downfall (helmed by Kardashian-adjacent blink-182 drummer Travis Barker) debuted at No. 1, there were still digs at MGK’s authenticity....

Live in the Vineyard Goes Country is coming in April, and you'll want to be there for this three-day, ultra-personal concert experience. Enter to win a trip for two to fly to Napa Valley for the April 26-28 concert series that will feature Lee Brice, Joe Nichols, Chase Rice and more.You must be 21 years old or older to enter. The winner and a guest will receive airfare to Napa, Calif., hotel accommodations for two nights and full access to Live in the Vineyard Goes Country 2022. Additional artists on the lineup include Jesse James...

Two years removed from their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, Roxy Music will reunite this September for the art-rockers’ first North American tour together in nearly two decades. Founding members Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, and Paul Thompson have announced a 10-date, 50th-anniversary arena trek that begins Sept. 7 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena and concludes Sept. 28 at Los Angeles’ the Forum. Along the way, the reunited act will take the stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden, San Francisco’s Chase Center, Chicago’s United Center, and other...

Keith Urban returned to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Friday night (March 25) to begin another round of dates of his Las Vegas residency, and as he prepared to take the big stage, he also shared a little piece of his success with some of the young rising musicians who call Las Vegas home.A class of guitar major high school students from the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts got to shadow Urban the day before he launched his weekend of shows. The students got to sit in and...

Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH paid tribute to Taylor Hawkins with an emotional rendition of Foo Fighters’ “My Hero” during the band’s concert Saturday in Boston. Introducing the song, a choked-up Van Halen told the crowd that the drummer, who died Friday at the age of 50, “was a hero to me, and a hero to all of us, and a hero to countless people, so we feel this is necessary.” Mammoth WVH then launched into the Foo Fighters’ 1997 classic, with Van Halen first helping out on drums before...

Beyoncé opened the 2022 Academy Awards from a tennis court in Compton in honor of the birthplace of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams, whose upbringing is the subject of King Richard. Flanked by a horn section in tart green uniforms, Beyoncé brought strength and elegance to her performance of “Be Alive,” the song she wrote for the film. “It feels so good to be alive (It feels so, so, so, so good)/Got all my sisters by my side (I got all my sisters by my side),” she sang. “Couldn’t wipe...

Reba McEntire performed the Best Original Song nominee “Somehow You Do” at the 2022 Academy Awards. Written by Diane Warren, it’s an inspirational ballad of perseverance that appears in the film Four Good Days, a drama about a daughter trying to get sober with the reluctant help of her mother. “Somehow You Do” marks Warren’s fifth consecutive nomination for Best Original Song and 13th overall — she has yet to win. Dressed in a black Dolce & Gabbana dress, McEntire delivered the song with signature poise while an all-star band...

Fifty-seven years ago today, on March 27, 1965, Roger Miller's "King of the Road" hit No. 1 on the country charts. Produced by Jerry Kennedy, the song appears on 1965's The Return of Roger Miller, and is an ode to the freewheeling road lifestyle.The protagonist of "King of the Road" hints at doing nefarious things to get by (he knows "every lock that ain't locked when no one's around") but also knows all the shortcuts to surviving on a tight budget: "I sing, 'Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let, 50...

Sam Hunt narrowed the timeline of his baby's arrival in a new interview, sharing that he'll become a first-time father in about two months.He also shares which country artists have given him good advice, and whether he's having a boy or a girl.The "23" singer tells Lon Helton of Country Countdown USA that his estranged wife Hannah is pregnant with a baby girl, and they want to wait until they meet Baby Hunt to name her. He reveals that his daughter is set to arrive in about eight weeks."I blocked out two months...

Happy 54rd birthday, Kenny Chesney! The singer was born on this day, March 26, in 1968.Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tenn., and raised in nearby Luttrell. He played football and baseball in high school and might have become a professional athlete if he hadn't received a guitar for Christmas one year and gotten into music. After graduating from high school, Chesney attended East Tennessee State University; he studied advertising, but aspired to a career in country music.Chesney obtained his college degree, then moved to Nashville and began pounding the pavement,...

The shocking news of Taylor Hawkins’ death is just beginning to reverberate around the world, and little is known beyond what the Foo Fighters released in their public statement. “Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family,” they wrote, “and we ask that their privacy by treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.” When Hawkins died, the Foo Fighters were in Colombia preparing to play at the Estéreo Picnic festival on the same bill as the Strokes, J. Balvin, and the Libertines. Their last gig...

As she contemplated her upcoming performance at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday (March 27), Reba McEntire wasn't feeling all that excited, and she didn't know why. Then, just days before the ceremony, she had a realization."I was very emotional yesterday about the Oscars," McEntire told Taste of Country and other outlets on Thursday afternoon (March 24), "Because I said yes to the Oscars in '91, and then the plane crash happened."On March 25, 1991, McEntire took the stage to sing the Best Original Song-nominated "I'm Checkin' Out," from...