On Sunday, April 15th, Reba McEntire returns as sole host of the ACM Awards live from Las Vegas. No stranger to the bright lights of the entertainment capital, McEntire has been in residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace with fellow country superstars Brooks & Dunn since 2015, with their …

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees for over five hours on Tuesday, fielding senators’ questions about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Jimmy Kimmel Live envisioned how the sixth hour of questioning might’ve gone in a hilarious parody. In Kimmel’s spoof, a trio offake senators …

Goo Goo Dolls will mark the 20th anniversary of their multi-platinum albumDizzy Up the Girl on tour this fall.The band kicks off September 30th in Phoenix, Arizona and winds back around to end in Las Vegas, Nevada. During each show, the Goo Goo Dolls plan to perform one portion of …

With its guilty conscience and hard-charging southern stomp, Cam‘s “Diane” flips the script of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” reimagining the difficult conversation between two women – one of them married – who realize they’ve been played by the same man. Here, Cam plays the unsuspecting “other woman,” smitten with a smooth-talking …

Rae Sremmurd‘s Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee teamed with Pharrell for a rumbling new song, “Chanel.” The track will appear on Rae Sremmurd‘s upcoming triple album, Sr3mm, which producer Mike WiLL Made-It saidarrives in April. On “Chanel,” Mike WiLL crafts a sinister trap beat out of dissonant synth drones, over …

In 2017, NBC-TV’s singing competition, The Voice, lowered the minimum age requirement for contestants to 13, opening the floodgates for hopeful young singers from across the country. Within a few first notes, however, it’s difficult to peg season 14 contestant Brynn Cartelli as one of the youngest to compete thus …

After an extended winter break, Walking the Floor is back. Today’s episode of the Americana podcast finds host Chris Shiflett conducting a 70-minute chat with Dave Alvin, a “California roots-music historian” whose music mixes country, punk, blues, R&B and rock & roll influences into the same melting pot. From his …

Thomas Piketty, the French economist whose 2013 bestseller Capital in the 21st Century awoke upscale Americans to the shocking news that their economic system was not working for everyone, has written a new paper exposing more uncomfortable truths. Piketty’s new essay, called Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right, studied electoral trends …

John Carter Cash has assembled an array of all-star artists and musicians for his latest album, We Must Believe in Magic, a collection of songs he has recorded over the last decade. The two-disc LP will be released on Saturday, April 21st, for Record Store Day. Bluegrass stars Tony Rice, …

“Can you tell that I’m happy?” asks Bettye LaVette. The reason, the singer says, isThings Have Changed, her new album comprised entirely of songs written by Bob Dylan. With help from her husband Kevin Kiley, LaVette narrowed down Dylan’s enormous songbook to 12 selections, eschewing his biggest hits and best-known …