Music

No cable? No worries. The 2021 CMT Awards weren't available to everyone to watch, which is a bummer, because the show was fast-paced and engaging from the top.Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini hosted Wednesday night's (June 9) show. It was a mix of live and recorded performances and celebrity segments that spilled past two hours of TV time. How did they do as a first-time co-hosting team? That's part of question No. 5 in this 5 Burning Questions video:Taste of Country's Adison Haager and Billy Dukes also discuss the mood backstage,...

Sleater-Kinney are back to their old tricks, which means trying out some new tricks. The Pacific Northwest punks grabbed the world’s imagination with the 1996 riot-grrrl bombshell Call the Doctor, but ever since, they’ve refused to repeat themselves. Everything about their new album is outside their zone, starting with the title: Path of Wellness. It’s the first album they’ve made as a duo—the band is down to Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, after a painful and public split with longtime drummer Janet Weiss.  On Path of Wellness, Sleater-Kinney sound as...

Stars gathered on the 2021 CMT Awards red carpet, leaving behind the muted tones that represented a muted year in 2020. Hot pink seems to be the most popular color right now among country music's best dressed at the show on Wednesday night (June 9) in Nashville.The annual June showcase has long been a place to be bold, and stars like host Kelsea Ballerini didn't disappoint. Newcomers Lainey Wilson and Niko Moon also made solid first impressions on those who are just learning their names through their first hit singles in 2021. While fashion...

Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall performed the drinking song “Tequila Does” off their stripped-down album The Marfa Tapes during the 2021 CMT Music Awards. Seated around a campfire, the trio strummed guitars and harmonized, playing up the natural vibes of the LP, which was recorded mostly outdoors in west Texas. Lambert takes lead on this one, relishing lyrics about choosing Casamigos and Jose Cuervo over a guy. “They don’t love me like tequila does/nobody can,” she sang. The Texas-born country singer was tied with Maren Morris for the...

A Texas man has filed a lawsuit to dispute the will of iconic country singer Charley Pride, who died in December of 2020, at the age of 86, after contracting COVID-19. Tyler Pride, a 41-year-old police officer from Tyler, Texas, filed suit in May, alleging that he is Pride's unacknowledged biological child.The Dallas Morning News reports that Pride left a will that acknowledges three children: Carlton, Dion and Angela. Their mother is Rozene Pride, the singer's widow, to whom he was married for 64 years and who serves as the...

Buena Vista Social Club have unearthed a previously unreleased track, “Vicenta,” which will appear on the upcoming 25th-anniversary reissue of the Cuban outfit’s acclaimed self-titled album, out September 17th via World Circuit Records. Penned by Compay Segundo, “Vicenta” recounts the story of a 1909 fire that destroyed nearly all of the village of La Maya, located outside of Santiago. Buena Vista Social Club’s version of the song is presented as a duet between Segundo and Eliades Ochoa, who was born and raised in La Maya. “Vicenta” is one of several...

In a new interview with The New Yorker, Mickey Guyton speaks frankly about her life as a new mom, and the tumultuous journey it took her to get here.Guyton -- who welcomed her son, Grayson, in February -- appears to be effortlessly juggling parenthood and her music career, calmly offering newborn recommendations and tag-teaming baby duty with her husband (and resident "Superdad," he jokes) Grant Savoy while simultaneously fielding interview questions. But while the singer is cool and in control these days, she's experienced her share of doubts about becoming a...

Pi’erre Bourne, the rapper and producer best known for helming the sound of acts like Playboi Carti and Young Nudy, has released a new song with diamond-headed rapper Lil Uzi Vert called “Sossboy 2.” Previously, the pair connected on the deluxe edition of Uzi’s Eternal Atake, for which Bourne produced four songs. Whereas Bourne’s original “Sossboy” track from last summer is emotional, melodic, and expansive, the follow up is more repetitive, droning and intense. It takes nearly a minute for the song to ascend to something as compelling as Bourne’s...

In February of 2020, Robyn Ottolini released an independent EP, I'm Not Always Hilarious, featuring "F-150" — the song that would become a viral hit on TikTok and help earn her a record deal with Warner Music Nashville — and three other breakup-focused, sad-girl country songs. Trouble was, she was about to fall in love.His name is Stephen, and if you've seen the lyric video for her new song "Tell You Everything," you know who he is. They met on Jan. 25, 2020, just before Ottolini was headed to Costa Rica for two weeks....

Coldplay have released an official music video for their recent single, “Higher Power.” Directed by Dave Meyers, the song follows Chris Martin as he wanders around a dystopian-looking planet named Kaotica (the local alien language, “Kaotican” is featured in the video and across the “Higher Power” artwork). Despite the gloomy setting, Martin soon finds himself running through an elaborate dance routine with a group of aliens portrayed by Seoul’s Ambiguou Dance Company. “The video is a metaphor for how, right now, we all feel alienated, far removed from our world,...

Rocker Elle King has toured, performed and recorded songs with Miranda Lambert, but she's still pinching herself over the fact that she gets to call the country superstar a pal."She's always extended an invitation to come out to her farm and write with her, so that's definitely something I would love to do one day. She's so cool," King recounts during a conversation with Taste of Country Nights. "I'm still in awe of the fact that I'm friends with her and she sang on one of my songs."That song, "Drunk (And I Don't...

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have dropped their new video for “Flying on the Ground.” The song is one of two new tracks that will appear on the band’s best-of album, Back the Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021), which arrives on Friday via Sour Mash Records. The clip expands on the plot from the French New Wave-inspired “We’re On Our Way Now” video, the first of the two new songs released from the set. Both star The Crown actor Matt Smith and Gala Gordon. “Flying on the Ground” offers...

Kid Rock angrily called a group of fans using their cell phones to record his concert “f--king f---ots” and gestured to his crotch in an onstage rant that was captured on camera. TMZ revealed video of the country-rock rapper using the homophobic slur — an incident that happened on Saturday night (June 5) at a bar called FishLips Resort & Grill in Smithville, Tenn.The clip finds Rock annoyed with fans who are filming him during a performance at the venue, which is part of a marina in Middle Tennessee. He begins with “F--k your iPhone,”...

Dave Grohl talks about the impact of Washington D.C. hardcore legends Scream in a new bonus clip from the forthcoming home and video on-demand release of the documentary, Punk the Capital. The film dives deep into the punk and hardcore scene that emerged and flourished in Washington D.C. between 1976 and 1983. Scream, who formed in 1981, were one of the most pivotal acts and their debut album, Still Screaming, was the first full-length LP released on Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson’s seminal Dischord Records. In the clip, Grohl remembers...