Music

Country icon and everyone's favorite rum connoisseur Kenny Chesney has spent half his life in the music industry.As an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Chesney begin his career in 1993, at just 25 years old. But now, with two-plus decades in the business behind him, Chesney has recorded more than a dozen studio albums (many which have been certified gold or higher), gone on tour a whole bunch of times (breaking records along the way) and won countless awards (including four CMA Entertainer of the Year trophies and four ACM Entertainer of the Year trophies).Along...

Warren Haynes and Robert Randolph delivered a rousing rendition of the Marshall Tucker Band classic “Can’t You See” as part of this year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, which took place Thursday, June 3rd at the Beacon Theatre. Guitarist and former New York Yankees great Bernie Williams and the event’s all-star house band — Steve Gadd, Shawn Pelton, Eric Krasno, Larry Campbell, Jeff Young and Ricky Peterson — also took part in the “Can’t You See” performance. This year’s concert was hosted by Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin, The Sopranos’...

Brandi Carlile teamed up with some famous "Friends" -- pun intended -- for a hilarious and star-studded sing-a-long performance in tribute to one of the most memorable lines from the beloved sitcom's history, dedicated to the actor who delivered it: Lisa Kudrow.It all started on actor and Friends star Courteney Cox's Instagram page, when Cox enlisted Carlile along with pop superstar Ed Sheeran and legendary singer-songwriter Elton John to join her for a song. Carlile and Sheeran strummed along on acoustic guitar, while Cox even offered her own impressive skills on the piano as the foursome...

BTS member RM marked the 2021 BTS Festa — the annual celebration tied to the anniversary of the group’s debut release — with a new solo song titled “Bicycle.” The two-week event had scheduled something mysteriously called “Bicycle” for June 7th, leading to speculation that a new song could be on the way. When Monday arrived in South Korea, BTS’ social media revealed the track, which was “produced, written and arranged” by RM alongside John Eun. 2021 #BTS FESTA Timeline#2021BTSFESTA #우리의축제시작 #FESTAisComing #BTS8thAnniversary pic.twitter.com/vOxZu2MKhn — BTS_official (@bts_bighit) May 28, 2021 “Bicycle”...

On June 5, 1993, Toby Keith earned his first No. 1 song on the Hot Country Songs Billboard chart, "Should've Been a Cowboy." Keith wrote the song himself; it was his debut single.Co-produced by Nelson Larkin and Harold Shedd -- the pair that also co-produced all of Keith's self-titled 1993 debut album – "Should've Been a Cowboy" features lyrics that are based on a true story: Keith wrote the tune in a hotel bathroom, after a bar experience where a woman chose a cowboy over one of his friends. Accordingly, "Should've Been a...

Racism is baked into the foundation of the modern music industry. The business took the first steps to grapple with its role in perpetuating and profiting from racism last year, when Jamila Thomas (now at Motown Records) and Brianna Agyemang (Platoon) launched a movement called #TheShowMustBePaused shortly after the murder of George Floyd. “Our mission is to hold the industry at large, including major corporations + their partners who benefit from the efforts, struggles and successes of black people accountable,” they wrote on their website last year. “It is the...

John Mayer has just released a new single, and the track features guest vocals from Maren Morris. "Last Train Home" is the first single from Mayer's upcoming album, Sob Rock.The singer-songwriter and guitarist dropped the new track on Friday (June 4), featuring the Grammy-winning country and pop singer on background vocals. The song draws on '80s pop elements in an arrangement that invites comparison to the Toto classic "Africa," juxtaposing synthesizer chords, drums and percussion with his signature guitar stylings."I'm not a fallen angel, I just fell behind / I'm...

Japanese Breakfast, the music project of singer/author Michelle Zauner, performed three songs off their just-released album Jubilee for CBS This Morning’s latest Saturday Sessions. Zauner and company delivered Jubilee’s first single “Be Sweet,” “Kokomo, IN” and “Tactics” from Japanese Breakfast’s third studio LP, which Zauner told Rolling Stone in a new interview “feels like a summer album to me.” “I knew that I wanted my third album to be the most drama and the strongest foot forward — every muscle flexing and using all the tools that you have in...

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...