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Garth Brooks is taking his Stadium Tour to Alabama.The country superstar has announced that he will head to Birmingham for a show at the city's Protective Stadium on Saturday, June 4. The show will mark the first-ever concert at the stadium and Brooks' first return to Birmingham in seven years. The concert will be Brooks' only tour date in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi for the tour.Tickets for the Birmingham show go on sale Friday, April 8, at 10AM CT. Fans may purchase up to eight tickets by visiting ticketmaster.com/garth brooks,...

Brian Wilson’s ex-wife Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford is suing the Beach Boys founding singer and songwriter following a $50 million deal Wilson made with Universal Music Publishing Group to sell song rights to the publisher, according to recently filed legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Wilson-Rutherford first sued Wilson in February at Los Angeles Superior court, two months after the deal with UMPG closed. The case was moved to federal court on Friday. According to her suit, UMPG paid Wilson nearly $32 million for his songwriter share, and another $19 million for...

Elliah Heifetz (pronounced "High-fits") knows the value of a good song. He wouldn't be here without one. The New York-based lyricist is releasing his debut country album, First Generation American, this Friday, April 1. Produced by Andrija Tokic, the album defiantly claims country music on behalf of people whose authenticity within the genre are questioned.Heifetz's grandfather, a musician, was also a Holocaust survivor. His previous life as a mandolin orchestra band leader enabled him to curry favor with one of the Nazi guards. Bored and tinkering with instruments looted from...

Prince and the Revolution’s legendary 1985 concert at Syracuse, New York’s Carrier Dome — one of the standout shows of the Purple Rain era — will receive a standalone release for the first time this June. The oft-bootlegged show was previously officially released on DVD as part of the massive Purple Rain reissue in 2017, but Prince and The Revolution: Live marks the first time the concert film will be released on vinyl, CD, and Blu-ray formats. Since the Purple Rain reissue, the concert has undergone a complete digital restoration,...

Parker McCollum is officially married! After telling Taste of Country at the 2022 ACM Awards on March 7 that his nuptials were just three weeks away, he and fiancee Hallie Ray Light tied the knot on Monday (March 28).The "To Be Loved by You" singer shared a photo of the newly-minted McCollums on his Instagram stories on Tuesday (March 29).InstagramInstagramloading...He also posted a photo of the couple's rings. While Mrs. McCollum's rings look like a classic, single-stone emerald cut engagement ring and diamond-encrusted wedding band, Mr. McCollum's is both unique and on-brand....

Barbara Gustern seemed invincible. At 87 years old, the Manhattan vocal coach had more stamina than the average college student. Nearly every day, she would teach students in her Chelsea apartment for eight hours before attending their concerts at night. Over the years, her clientele included Blondie’s Debbie Harry, avant-garde heroine Diamanda Galás, Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, Broadway performers, downtown firebrands, and anyone who wanted to learn to sing. When it was time to hit a show to see her pupils, she’d walk up to a mile and a half....

American Idol Season 20 officially kicked off its Hollywood Week at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles on Monday (March 28). Contestants who scored a golden ticket during their audition round returned to showcase their vocals on the microphone as part of the show's Genre Challenge, and one of them chose a country cover.The challenge, which helps judges whittle down the competition, saw singers choosing a song from the genre they identify with the most while going head-to-head with their peers from the same genre.First up was country singer Mike...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers will get their own Sirius XM channel, Whole Lotta Red Hot (channel 315), launching this Friday, April 1, at 12 a.m. ET The station’s debut coincides with the release of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, Unlimited Love, and Whole Lotta Red Hot will celebrate the LP’s arrival with exclusive track-by-track commentary from the band. Like other artist-centric Sirius XM channels, Whole Lotta Red Hot will also feature music from throughout RHCP’s career, including studio cuts and live recordings, as well as songs handpicked...

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...