Nicole Atkins will embark on a tour of the eastern United States this spring in support of her latest LP,Goodnight Rhonda Lee. Following a pair of March dates, the trek kicks off in proper with an April 18th gig at Birmingham, Alabama’s Saturn and concludes May 5th at Woodstock, New …
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Anderson East emerges from side stage just in time to grab the microphone and give it a windmill twirl before singing the opening lines of “Sorry You’re Sick,” the energetic, Ted Hawkins-penned clap-along from his new album, Encore. With his hard-charging band laying down the driving beat and joyous horns …
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The Recording Academy sent a letter to its members this week to counter recent reports that the Grammys have traditionally favorited men over women. Shortly before the awards show last month, a study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reported that only 9.3 percent of Grammy nominees from 2013 to …
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Singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams announced Sunday that she will explore her life and music in an upcoming memoir. The still-untitled autobiography, due out in 2020 via publishers Henry Holt and Company, will chart the singer’s life and career from her Louisiana childhood to her Grammy-winning success of 1998’s Car …
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Mike Harmeier loves being on the road. In 2017, he and his band, Mike & the Moonpies, played over 180 shows. This year, they plan on pushing that number beyond 200. But it’s only when this road warrior stops – usually at his mother- and father-in-law’s 27-acre ranch outside Austin, …
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Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson – two of country music’s most vital artists – performed onstage for the first-ever time on Saturday night. Stapleton was the scheduled musical act on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Will Ferrell, but a few hours prior to the broadcast he tweeted that he’d be …
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Carly Pearce knows how to keep her head about her. That’s how she went from cleaning AirBNB properties in Nashville to scoring a Number One record in 2017. But the steamy new music video for her song “Hide the Wine” is all about resisting temptation. Directed by Shaun Silva, the …
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“You know that feeling of clicking to the top of a roller coaster?” Caitlyn Smith says as she sits in her dressing room a few hours before her live-television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Yeah, we’ll it’s kind of been that feeling all day. Like ‘Here we …
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Troye Sivan made his Saturday Night Live debut on the Jessica Chastain-hosted episode, where the emerging Australian singer performed his two new singles “My, My, My!” and “The Good Side.” Both tracks – the dance-pop hit “My, My, My!” and the ballad “The Good Side” – are earmarked to appear …
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Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan’s cause of death will not be revealed until at least April, a London coroner’s office announced Friday. The coroner’s officer Stephen Earl provided more details about the circumstances of O’Riordan’s death on January 15th at the age of 46. “The London ambulance service was contacted and …
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