Music

Eighteen years ago today, on June 5, 2003, Dwight Yoakam was honored for his extraordinary music and acting careers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Yoakam first moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in the late 1970s, as much for the musical influences of artists such as Clarence White, the Byrds and Gram Parsons as for the TV and film opportunities. It was while in the City of Angels that Yoakam found his signature honky-tonk sound, blending the country music he loved with the rock 'n' roll sounds that were permeating the...

After much anticipation, Atlanta rapper Lil Baby’s and Chicago’s Lil Durk’s collaboration The Voice of the Heroes hit streaming platforms today. Teased in March, the project is a power move from the two acts whose stars rose immeasurably in the past year. Among other successes, last June, Lil Baby found his place in the summer’s uprisings against anti-black racism and policing by releasing “The Bigger Picture,” an earnest protest anthem, to critical and popular acclaim. The song earned two Grammy nominations. In 2020, Lil Durk, a drill veteran of nearly...

David Nail has been married to his wife, Catherine Werne, since 2009. The singer says that he knew soon after he met his now-wife that she was the one for him; in fact, he even went as far as to boldly proclaim his intentions to her parents right after they started dating!"I was on the road, promoting my first single, "I’m About to Come Alive." I had just done a radio visit in San Diego. I came home, and because of the time change, I was a little off kilter, so I decided to...

Flatland Cavalry gear up for the July 2nd release of their new album Welcome to Countryland with a string of just announced tour dates. The Texas country-roots band’s headlining Welcome to Countryland Tour kicks off this weekend and runs through September and includes a few shows supporting Luke Combs. Along with the confirmed tour, Flatland Cavalry released the second track off their upcoming LP. “Getting’ By” is a fiddle-heavy, front-porch ballad about celebrating the end of a hard week and the small victory of making ends meet. “Raise a toast...

Rising country star Brit Taylor's new single "At Least There’s No Babies" wraps up her debut album, Real Me. Released on Friday (June 4), the brand-new song is one of three on forthcoming deluxe edition of the project, due out next month."The album Real Me told my story, and it wasn’t always easy to share it," Taylor says in a press release. "But I did, and it was soul cleansing."Still, Taylor admits, "I knew the story wouldn’t be finished until "At Least There’s No Babies" was on the record and out...

Every so often a viral moment captures our imagination for its sheer absurdity. Over the holiday weekend, a Twitter user with the handle @topxkazi shared a video from what appeared to be a graduation party inside of a residential home. The video shows a packed room of young people dancing to the Young Nudy and 21 Savage track “EA,” from Nudy’s 2017 mixtape SlimeBall 2. A ceiling fan dangles ominously close to the crowd, almost like a horror movie foreshadowing the chaos that’s to come.  Just as the revelers seem...

Tanya Tucker has revealed the cities and dates for a 2021 run of concerts that will keep her busy on the road from the end of June until the beginning of December.The Grammy Award winner released a packed-out schedule for her 2021 Bring My Flowers Now Tour on Wednesday (May 2). She's announced rescheduled dates for her 2020 CMT Next Women of Country: Bring My Flowers Now Tour, and Tucker has also booked a slew of new dates and festival appearances.The singer, whom a press release calls the “original female outlaw,” will...

Modest Mouse have released a music video from “We Are Between,” the lead single from their upcoming album The Golden Casket. The surreal clip shows the band members trapped in various cars in a junkyard, along with other folks who seem to have fallen on hard times. Each car acts as a small window into someone’s life and how they may act when they feel like the end is near, and the video grimly ends with Isaac Brock getting crushed inside of his vehicle. The Golden Casket, Modest Mouse’s first album since...

Jameson Rodgers, a Batesville, Miss., native, packed his bags and headed to Nashville in 2010. Armed with a few songs -- and, if he's being honest, some self-doubt -- he set up shop in Music City and never looked back.Rodgers persevered, and he discovered that songwriting was just the outlet he needed to express himself. For the first time, he was fully embracing his musical talents, and was turning his unsaid thoughts and feelings into meaningful songs that resonated with listeners."I realized I could say stuff in a song that I would...

British songwriting and production duo Jungle have dropped their new video for “Talk About It.” The song appears on their third album, Loving In Stereo, which arrives on August 13th via AWAL. Directed by Jungle alongside their longtime collaborator Charlie Di Placido, the visual features dancers that appeared in the clip from lead single “Keep Moving.” The dancers meet up in a gymnasium for what starts out as a sort of therapy session, but tensions rise and the group splinters. They work it out through expertly crafted dance choreography. Breaking...

This August, Gabby Barrett will hit the road with Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell and a special guest: Her baby daughter, Baylah.Barrett — a nine-time Billboard Music Awards nominee — opened up to Entertainment Tonight about what she imagines motherhood will look like once the Center Point Road Tour ticks off."What it'll kind of look like, we'll have a tour bus. We'll have our own home on wheels, which will be nice and exciting," she says. Barrett and her husband, fellow American Idol alum Cade Foehner, became first-time parents in January, when Baylah May Foehner was born."She will definitely...

Randy Travis released his debut album Storms of Life on June 2nd, 1986. Thirty-five years later, the country music vocalist will revisit the LP with a deluxe reissue. Storms of Life (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) arrives September 24th. The upcoming set includes the 10 original tracks remastered, as well as three previously unreleased songs: “Ain’t No Use,” “Carryin’ Fire,” and “The Wall.” Storms of Life, featuring some of Travis’ most memorable songs, like “Diggin’ Up Bones” and “On the Other Hand,” went on to top the country albums chart. It’s...

In the weeks that have elapsed since Jana Kramer first announced that she was filing for divorce from Mike Caussin, her husband of six years, she's chronicled every step of her journey on her Whine Down podcast, a platform that she and Caussin had previously used to share their story and the ups and downs their marriage has faced over the years.Now, in a new installment of the podcast, Kramer recalls the night that Caussin was served with divorce papers, and how she nearly called off their split there and then....

D-Nice has enlisted Common, Sheila E., and the Isley Brothers for the first installment of the Club Quarantine Live music series, which takes place on August 29th at the Hollywood Bowl. Tickets for the series, along with all events for the Hollywood Bowl 2021 summer season, are on sale now. Hosted by Donnie Wahlberg and Chris Spencer and produced in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the first event also features Trey Songz, Deborah Cox, Amerie, Carl Thomas, Mary Mary, Erica Campbell and Kiana Lede. More dates in the series...