For over 20 years, ASCAP has hosted a Music Café in the heart of the Sundance Film Festival, featuring intimate performances by songwriters and artists. Next month, ASCAP continues the tradition, and in collaboration with the Academy of Country Music and the famed Bluebird Cafe, will present some of Nashville’s rising stars and country legends […]
With this new music video Brandi Carlile wanted to articulate the thought of being told you’re unworthy of unconditional love is beyond inconceivable in today’s age, but when you finally have the right to it, and that it’s still worth fighting for.when she sat down to write the closing song of her Grammy-nominated By the […]
Zac Brown, frontman of multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band, today announced the launch of Zac Brown Collective, a new entertainment and lifestyle branded parent company. Formerly known as Southern Ground, the reimagined company expands its portfolio of brands, further rising Brown’s artistic and entrepreneurial pursuits to new heights. Zac Brown Collective brings together the […]
Country music star Tim McGraw is headed down way South for “four days of music and adventure in the city of Havana.” McGraw’s 2019 Memorial Day Weekend leg, dubbed “One of Those Havana Nights” will include a concert at Mella theater together with two of contemporary Cuba’s most important artists – dance band Los Van […]
The 61st annual Grammy Awards nominees were announced last Friday. Brandi Carlile and Kacey Musgraves lead the way for country nominees. Carlile received seven nominations including album of the year for By the Way, I Forgive You, as well as record and song of the year for “The Joke.” Musgraves received six nominations including album […]
Two down, 98 to go. Those were Jake Owen’s witty words in reference to the announcement that he and girlfriend Erica Hartlein are expecting a baby girl. The baby, due next year, will be Owen’s second daughter. He is already father to 6-year-old daughter Pearl with ex-wife Lacey Buchanan. He shared the news in late […]
While many in the field of entertainment had paid respects to the late George H.W. Bush on Friday, November 30th, Billy Ray Cyrus waited until this very solemn day to share his own memories.’ Cyrus posted a letter to Instagram that Bush had written him in 1992, right around the time Cyrus’ career-defining single “Achy Breaky Heart” […]
Aaron Lewis has revealed the cities and dates for a tour that will promote a new album he will release in 2019. The former frontman of Staind turned country singer has announced his ‘The State I’m In’ Tour, which starts January 24th at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas and runs for 24 dates before wrapping […]
After a solo career that made him a country music superstar with hits like “Wagon Wheel,” “Alright” and “If I Told You,” Darius Rucker is reuniting with the band that got him started, Hootie & the Blowfish. They’ll do a full tour in 2019. The announcement was made on the Monday, December 3rd, on an […]
Scotty McCreery’s Seasons Change Tour started November 29th, so he’s had quite a lot on his plate. One thing the newlywed hasn’t been thinking about? Sending wedding thank you notes. “We probably have about half of them out,” McCreery confesses to Taste of Country in a recent interview. He married his longtime girlfriend Gabi Dugal […]