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Chayce Beckham is moving on to the next round of judging on American Idol after delivering a haunting performance of Tyler Childers' "Hard Times" during the Genre Challenge portion of Hollywood Week on Sunday night (March 21.)Beckham comes honestly by his gritty take on the hard-hitting Americana tune: As he shared during Sunday night's episode, he's looking back at a year full of "Hard Times" that ultimately lead him to a precipitous relationship with alcohol and a near-fatal car crash."Recently, you know, a lot of crazy things started happening in my...

Demi Lovato discussed her overdose, recovery and new documentary in a CBS Sunday Morning interview that aired days before the release of Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil. “The doctors told me that I had five to 10 minutes,” Lovato says of her 2018 near-fatal overdose. “Like, if no one had found me, then I wouldn’t be here. And… I’m grateful that I’m sitting here today.” For the interview, Lovato sat down with CBS’ Tracy Smith, the same journalist who interviewed Lovato for the same program in 2016; throughout the...

Twenty-one years ago today, on March 21, 2000, Nickel Creek released their self-titled debut album on Sugar Hill Records. Produced by Alison Krauss, the project spawned three singles and earned the group their first Grammy Awards nomination, for Best Bluegrass Album.Nickel Creek, a trio made up of siblings Sean Watkins and Sara Watkins, along with Chris Thile, formed in 1989 and began performing around their home in southern California; at the time, Sean Watkins was 12, Sara Watkins was eight, and Thile turned eight that year as well. Throughout the '90s, the threesome performed at...

There may be two Aretha Franklin biopics coming out this year, but only one so far is getting an endorsement from members of the Queen of Soul’s immediate family. Aretha Franklin: The Life and Career of The Queen of Soul Earlier this week, the late singer’s granddaughter, Grace Franklin, posted a TikTok of her family protesting the release of Genius: Aretha, NatGeo’s four-part series starring Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo as Aretha. The series, for which Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is showrunner, premieres on Sunday. In the clip, she’s chanting...

On March 21, 1989, Suzy Bogguss released her major-label debut album, Somewhere Between. The full-length project followed her two earlier, independent releases -- including one that the Illinois native recorded during her tenure as a featured performer at Dollywood -- and several briefly charting singles, "Love Will Never Slip Away" and "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire."Performing at Dollywood was invaluable career prep, Bogguss told The Chicago Tribune in 1987: "At Dollywood, I got to meet a lot of hardcore country music fans and kind of learned what...

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Loretta Lynn is still a force, even when paired with two of her most powerful contemporaries. "Still Woman Enough," from her new album of the same name, finds her singing with Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood.The new song begins with a driving acoustic shuffle and Lynn telling her story, as she does at her best. It's a gritty vocal, partially inspired by her 2002 autobiography by the same title. When it's their turn, McEntire and then Underwood have no problem keeping pace."I was raised in Oklahoma / I'm country proud to...

There are many pre-pandemic concert moments that now have a mystical quality to them. Neil Young reviving “On the Beach” for the first time in 16 years. Phoebe Bridgers performing “Garden Song” just weeks before lockdown. And Lana Del Rey recruiting Weyes Blood and Zella Day for a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “For Free” in the fall of 2019, onstage in — you guessed it — Los Angeles. On Friday, Del Rey released her new album Chemtrails Over the Country Club, with the “For Free” cover as the final track....

Blanco Brown's newly released "CountryTime" music video finds the singer, rapper and producer caught up in a scheme that's sure to end with dire consequences, only to choose a different path. The song itself, the lyrics of which reflect the video's story, recently inspired the writer of a Netflix series with a similar theme.Sarah Lampert, creator of the new Netflix original show Ginny & Georgia, heard "CountryTime" on a playlist "randomly," she explains in a press release. "It immediately became Georgia's song when I was writing," she says of the track, referring...

From Dokken to Warrant, from Poison to Stryper, the new book Nöthin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the ’80s Hard Rock Explosion is full of untold tales of hard rock’s glossiest era. On a new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, authors Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock join host Brian Hiatt to share some of the best stories from the book, starting with the rise of Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot, two Seventies bands who took so long to make it that they became forever known as Eighties...

While Jason Aldean and Brittany Kerr's relationship began on rocky ground, the two have built a loving family in their five years together. The couple now has two children of their own, younger siblings to Aldean's two daughters from his first marriage.In late 2012, Aldean and Kerr were photographed cozying up together at a nightclub in Los Angeles, Calif., while Aldean was still married to his first wife, Jessica Ussery. Both Aldean and Kerr apologized for the incident, with Aldean attributing it to alcohol.Aldean and Kerr first confirmed that they were dating in March of 2014. Aldean’s reps...

Justin Bieber celebrated the release of his new album Justice with a performance of single “Hold On” on The Late Late Show. For the moody rendition of the track, Bieber was joined by his live band on James Corden’s stage, which was covered with a projection of a moving road. Bieber gave a passionate performance while dancing and jumping along to the song. Justice is Bieber’s sixth studio album. It includes several previously-released tracks, including “Holy” feat. Chance The Rapper, “Lonely” feat. Benny Blanco, “Anyone” and “Hold On.” “In a...

Eight years ago, on March 19, 2013, Kacey Musgraves released her major-label debut album, Same Trailer Different Park. The Texas native co-produced the record with Luke Laird and Shane McAnally; the latter also co-wrote the bulk of the album with her, although Josh Osborne ("Silver Lining") and Brandy Clark ("Follow Your Arrow") also get several songwriting credits each."The making of this record was such a fun and meaningful time for me," Musgraves said at the time. "As a writer, singer and producer I learned so much throughout the whole process. I am...

In Leila Cobo’s new book Decoding “Despacito”: An Oral History of Latin Music, the author and Billboard’s VP of Latin Music breaks down the genre’s biggest singles of the past 50 years in the words of the artists, producers and executives behind each song. In this excerpt from the book, Shakira, her collaborators and then-Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola talk about the decision to translate some of the young Colombian star’s hit Spanish-language songs into English, including “Suerte,” which became Shakira’s opening salvo in the U.S. mainstream, “Whenever, Wherever.” Daddy...