The 2025 Stand Up to Cancer fundraiser will be hosted by Sheryl Crow and feature Dolly Parton, and is set to be broadcast from Nashville for the first time on August 15. This one-hour special will take place at The Pinnacle, a new 4,500 capacity venue in Music City, and will bring together musicians, celebrities,…… read more

Lainey Wilson’s new single, “Somewhere Over Laredo,” creatively references Judy Garland’s iconic song, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” just with a modernized, countrified touch on The Wizard of Oz classic. Wilson co-wrote the track with Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, and Dallas Wilson, with the original composers of Dorothy’s tender anthem, Harold Arlen and E.Y. “Yip” Harburg,…… read more

On Friday (June 27), rising country star Elle Sloan released her debut EP, What’s Best For Me. The six-song collection follows a series of big breaks early in the career of the 22-year-old singer-songwriter, including being featured on the cover of TIDAL’s Country Rising. Sloan was raised in Phoenix, and now resides in Nashville, and…… read more

Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour faced a setback when a storm damaged gear during a stop in Missouri, leading to the cancellation of their Oklahoma show on Tuesday (July 1). The Sunday (June 29) concert at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Ridgedale was cut short due to heavy rains and high…… read more

During a recent concert, Gavin Adcock blasted Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning Best Country Album, Cowboy Carter, during an onstage rant. In fan-captured video footage of the incident, the country star takes issue with albums that currently outrank his own on Apple Music’s country albums chart. “One of them’s Beyoncé — you can tell her we’re coming for…… read more

The 2025 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala will take place on October 6 at the Music City Center, and this year’s nominees have just been announced. The 2025 nominees in the Contemporary Songwriters category are Steve Bogard, Shawn Camp, Don Henry, Gordon Kennedy, Tony Martin, Aimee Mayo, Jim Rushing, and Darrell Scott. While the…… read more

On Thursday (June 25), Gavin Adcock announced the details of his upcoming third full-length album, Own Worst Enemy, which is set to be released on August 15 via Warner Music Nashville. The rising country star also shared the newest single from the 24-track project, “Last One To Know,” which joins the previously released tracks “On…… read more

Zach Bryan performed his biggest headlining shows of his career over the weekend at London’s Hyde Park, playing to 65,000 UK country music fans during two sold-out shows on Saturday and Sunday night (June 28-29). During his Saturday performance, Bryan debuted a brand new song he had written only four days earlier, “Streets of London,”…… read more

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem spends a sixth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. I’m the Problem earned 177,000 units over the past week, netting the largest total for an album in its sixth week on the chart since Adele’s 25 earned 363,000 in its sixth week in January 2016.…… read more

Luke Combs and his wife Nicole celebrated their son Tex’s 3rd birthday with a NASCAR-themed party inspired by Dale Earnhardt Sr. The party featured a balloon-filled wall with “Tex’s Third Lap”, a winner’s podium and a chair that featured a photo of the late racing icon, a play area with racing stripes, a “No. 3″…… read more

Lainey Wilson celebrates her musical influences with the newly-released, Apple Music Sessions EP, recorded in London. The transatlantic collection features covers of The Beatles classic, “Come Together,” and Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved,” as well as a reimagined version of her Whirlwind standout, “Devil Don’t Go There.” Wilson was inspired to cover the Beatles by…… read more

In a new interview with People, Lady A’s Charles Kelley credits his wife Cassie for inspiring his latest solo album, Songs for a New Moon, as well as being “the reason that I got sober.” Kelley’s sobriety journey began three years ago, when he entered rehab for alcohol addiction, forcing Lady A to postpone their…… read more

LeAnn Rimes recently experienced an unexpected dental mishap during a concert in Washington. In an Instagram post, Rimes, 42, recounted the incident, explaining that while performing her hit “One Way Ticket,” she felt something pop in her mouth and realized her dental bridge had fallen out. Rimes said she “panicked” at first, but then decided…… read more