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Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires are part of a special new space in Nashville's Nissan Stadium. The singer-songwriter couple recently helped establish a room for fans with sensory sensitivities at the football stadium.The Tennessee Titans, Nashville's NFL team, unveiled the Isbell-Shires KultureCity Sensory Room at their home stadium on Tuesday (April 6). Isbell and Shires helped raise the money needed for the room, set up with KultureCity, an Alabama-based nonprofit focused on sensory accessibility and acceptance.KultureCity's board president is Dominique Wilkins, a retired NBA star and Isbell fan who befriended the musician...

The Mick Fleetwood & Friends tribute concert to Peter Green at London’s Palladium on February 20th, 2020 was packed with incredible performances from the likes of Pete Townshend, Noel Gallagher, Steven Tyler, Kirk Hammett, Billy Gibbons, and Christine McVie. But one of the best performances came near the very end of the show when David Gilmour came out to play the 1968 Fleetwood Mac instrumental “Albatross.” You can check out the moment right here, and the entire concert will be available for streaming via Nugs on April 24th. Fleetwood personally...

Eric Church didn't just roll out tour dates and cross his fingers. The Gather Again Tour announcement came with nearly as much planning as a moon mission.Talking to Taste of Country Nights, Church — whose Heart & Soul album project debuts on April 16 — says that yes, he's a little nervous about this tour as it relates to the pandemic. Some days, he might be more than a little nervous — but he's done his homework.“This is not something that we just did," Church assures. "We didn’t just say we were going to do...

The Avalanches are marking the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Since I Left You, with a deluxe edition. The set — which will be available in vinyl, CD and digital formats — arrives on June 4th via Astralwerks and it’s available for preorder. The reissue houses several bonus tracks, including previously unreleased remixes by the late MF Doom, Black Dice, Leon Vynehall, Sinkane and Carl Craig. Another bonus track is a Prince Paul remix of “Since I Left You,” which the band shared in advance of the album’s release....

Dolly Parton is mourning the death of someone who played a key role in helping her launch her career in music. The country legend turned to Facebook on Wednesday (April 7) to reveal the death of her uncle, Bill Owens, writing, "I wouldn't be here if he hadn't been there.""I knew my heart would break when he passed, and it did," Parton shares alongside a picture of herself and her uncle."He was there... there in my young years to encourage me to keep playing my guitar, to keep writing my songs,...

Eric Church has announced dates for an extensive arena tour that will carry him into 2022. The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year plans to kick off the Gather Again Tour on September 17th in Lexington, Kentucky. Each show will be played in the round with his stage at the center of the room. For some past tours, Church sold seats all the way around the stage, but this is his first trek with a true in-the-round setup. With opening dates starting in mid-September, the 55-date Gather Again Tour will...

Brian Kelley isn't waiting long to put out his first solo music. The Florida Georgia Line member revealed on Tuesday (April 6) that his debut solo EP, BK's Wave Pack, is due out on April 13 — in just one week.BK's Wave Pack contains four songs, all with a beach theme and all co-written and co-produced by Kelley and a variety of co-writers: Blake Redferrin, Jake Rose, Corey Crowder, Randy Montana and Canaan Smith. Crowder co-produced the EP with Kelley, while Rose co-produced the song "Beach Cowboy.""I’m so excited to ride this wave...

Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson have joined the growing cast of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, Osage News reports. No release date has been announced for the Apple Original Film, an adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction book about a string of murders in Oklahoma’s Osage Nation. Set in the 1920s, the story looks into the brutal killings of several Osage natives who amassed considerable wealth after oil was discovered on their land. White residents of the area were allowed to become custodians of the Osage people’s money,...

Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson have signed on for roles in Martin Scorsese's upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, a film adaptation of a book of the same name by American journalist David Grann.Deadline reports the news of Isbell and Simpson's additions to the movie, which has also added William Belleau (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Loudermilk) and Louis Cancelmi (Boardwalk Empire, Blue Bloods) to its cast. Isbell will portray Bill Smith, a nemesis to Ernest Burkhart (a previously cast Leonardo DiCaprio), while Simpson will play Henry Grammer, a rodeo champion and bootlegger.Isbell's role in Killers of the...

When Spitboy fell into the Bay Area punk scene like a hurricane in the early Nineties, they had one shared mission: to obliterate everything in America that oppressed women. The four women were unapologetically intense and altogether uncompromising. Drummer Michelle “Todd” Gonzales detailed her list of enemies in the lyric sheet for their True Self Revealed LP in 1993. Her hit list included capitalist society, the media, patriarchy, big business, and the government. These, she said, were the true problem-makers in the world. “We are all victims together of the...

Rodney Atkins and his wife, Rose Falcon, have sold their lavish home in a high-dollar suburb of Nashville after just under eight months on the market. Online property sites show the couple received $1,250,000 for their luxurious mansion, and pictures show it's well worth that price.Atkins and Falcon initially asked $1,395,000 for their five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom, 5,385-square-foot house, which sits on 5.3 lush acres in Brentwood, Tenn., an affluent Nashville suburb that is home to a number of Nashville music business movers and shakers. The sale of the house closed on March 31.The...

Demi Lovato has dropped a deluxe version of her new album, Dancing With the Devil…The Art of Starting Over, which she released last Friday. The expanded LP includes four new songs, including a bonus track titled “Sunset” and three live acoustic versions of the first three “prelude” songs on the album: “Anyone,” “Dancing With the Devil,” and “ICU (Madison’s Lullabye).” The acoustic tracks were recorded during the SXSW drive-in premiere of Lovato’s four-part YouTube Originals docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil, which explores her struggles with addiction and the...

When Taylor Swift released Fearless, her sophomore album, on Nov. 11, 2008, she was an 18-year-old rising with a platinum-certified debut album and five Billboard 100 Top 40 singles to her name. Fearless, though, would put her on an even faster track to superstardom."Fearless was an album full of magic and curiosity, the bliss and devastation of youth," Swift said in early 2021. "It was the diary of the adventures and explorations of a teenage girl who was learning tiny lessons with every new crack in the facade of the fairytale ending she'd been shown...