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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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“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 …
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When Courtney Marie Andrews was growing up in Phoenix, she worked at a pizza shop downtown next to the offices of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Donald Trump’s villainous border wall-loving buddy who somehow managed to stay in power for 24 years despite his penchant for racial profiling and prisoner abuse. Surrounded …
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Ringo Starr announced a U.S. leg for his 2018 tour with the All Starr Band. The 20-date run launches September 1st in Tulsa, Oklahoma and concludes the 29th in Los Angeles. The latest iteration of the former Beatle’s rotating group features returning members – singer-guitarist Colin Hay (Men at Work), …
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