Zac Brown Band appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two songs, “Spend It All on You” and “Leaving Love Behind,” on the late night show’s outdoor stage. The latter is the closing track of the group’s new album The Owl, which dropped in September. “Spend It All on You” …
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Kane Brown has announced dates for his 2020 Worldwide Beautiful Tour, which will mark the first time he’s headlined shows internationally. The trek gets underway in February. Launching across the Atlantic in Dublin, Ireland, the tour will carry the “Good As You” singer through London before heading on to the …
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What makes a summer jam? Is it the sunniest chorus, the hottest beat, the most weeks on the charts? Do the lyrics have to be about beaches and barbecues, or is it a question of vibe? What if it’s a song on your summer playlist and no one else’s? We …
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A little more than a dozen years ago, Willie Nelson stumbled out of the poker room at his house in Maui in a haze of marijuana smoke to find his then-14-year-old son Micah playing Mario Kart on a Nintendo 64. Micah had just returned from a school trip, and his …
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On a cloudless spring day in Tampa, Florida, Aaron Judge is doing what he does best: hitting home runs. There’s a distinct thwap that fills the air every time he squares up on a fastball and sends it on a 400-foot journey over the wall – farther than anyone else …
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“You’re gettin’ all kinds of stuff out of me,” says DJ Khaled backstage at the Grammy Awards. He’s bluffing. The boisterous hip-hop producer hasn’t given away all that much about his imminent new album, the follow up to 2017’s Grateful, but he hints that it will involve Kendrick Lamar. “We’ve …
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Veteran record executive Clive Davis attempted a complex balancing act at his annual pre-Grammy Gala Saturday night at the Sheraton Hotel in Times Square: how to celebrate the vintage sounds of bygone pop eras with current superstars side by side. The evening seesawed frequently and sometimes incongruously between these two …
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The Oscar nominees for the Best Original Song are a mix new names like R&B singer Mary J. Blige(Mudbound)and the indie-folk singer Sufjan Stevens(Call Me By Your Name) as well as previous winners like Common. The rapper is up for a second Oscar for “Stand Up for Something,” which appeared …
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 2012 Alchemy summer tour was supposedly in support of their new album Americana, which featured garage rock renditions of standard tunes like “This Land Is Your Land” and “Tom Dula.” But when the tour began in August, he essentially ignored the entire thing, playing “Jesus …
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Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has announced its full lineup of new exhibits for 2018. Artists set to be featured range from contemporary stars like Little Big Town to bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley, who died in 2016 at the age of 89. The first new exhibit …
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