Music

With news of his first Top 40 single still fresh and his major label debut LP just around the corner, Cody Johnson‘s ascent has been put on a momentary hiatus with the postponement of three upcoming shows for vocal rest. The Texas singer-songwriter made the announcement about the shows, all …

Mason Ramsey recently returned toThe Ellen DeGeneres Showto perform his latest single, a classic country arrangement of the Bing Crosby holiday staple “White Christmas.” Performing in a sparkling holiday suit, Ramsey added his own idiosyncratic flair to the standard, written by Irving Berlin in the early 1940s. The 12-year-old country …

Kodak Black has dropped the new video for his hit single “Zeze” featuring Travis Scott and Migos‘ Offset. Scott himself directed the visual, which offers a clever behind-the-scenes look at how music videos are made. After the pre-video request from Kodak Black’s label that the “Zeze” video include “no guns, …

A new song from Greensky Bluegrass, the title track of Kacey Musgraves‘ CMA award-winning Golden Hour and a dancehall-ready entry from Mike and the Moonpies make up the songs you must hear this week. Greensky Bluegrass, “All for Money” The title track from Greensky Bluegrass’ upcoming seventh album, All for …

During this week’s CMA Awards, three new inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame will be recognized. Along with legendary fiddle player Johnny Gimble and singer-songwriter Dottie West, both being recognized posthumously, eight-time CMA award winner Ricky Skaggs will be honored and is also listed as a performer. The …

Dido will release her first new album in five years, Still on My Mind, on March 8th via BMG. The British songwriter will promote the LP with her first tour in 15 years, opening with a run of European dates before launching a North American leg on June 13th in …

There is a argument that could be made that Trippie Redd has lost a step. It’s not a particularly well-reasoned one, but plenty have tried to make the case. “There is no time where I feel like I will fall off,” Redd told Rolling Stone last November, unintentionally predicting the …

Hayes Carll‘s high-school teacher was one of the first to notice a particular quirk possessed by the Texas-born singer-songwriter: a penchant to look toward the endings of things, not the beginnings — and most certainly not the here and now. “Every one of my poems and songs and short stories …

“Me, I was born in 1941,” Bob Dylan said onstage on November 4th, 2008, a few minutes before Barack Obama was officially declared the 44th President of the United States. “That’s the year they bombed Pearl Harbor. I’ve been living in a world of darkness ever since. But it looks …

Iceland Airwaves was an idea more than a festival in its first year. The inaugural event, held in October 1999, was a modest one-night bill presented in an airplane hangar at Reykjavík Airport. The headliners were an electro-dance collective with a strong U.K. buzz, GusGus, and a trio of young …