Austin City Limits has announced that 11-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile will be inducted into the ACL Hall of Fame during the 12th annual ceremony on July 1, 2026, at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. Bonnie Raitt will handle the induction and perform a tribute on the night. Highlights from
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Koe Wetzel has announced his sixth studio album, The Night Champion, set for release June 12 via Columbia Records. The announcement comes as his 50-plus date world tour — which shares the album’s name — is already underway, with U.S. dates beginning July 23 in Nampa, Idaho. The album follows 9 Lives, which produced the
If you follow the business side of country music at all, Seth England’s name is not new to you. As CEO of Big Loud — the Nashville-born label and management company behind Morgan Wallen, HARDY, ERNEST, and Florida Georgia Line — he has had a front-row seat to everything that has shifted in Music City
Craft Recordings and HighTone Records have announced the reissue of Boone Creek, the self-titled 1977 debut from the boundary-pushing bluegrass supergroup featuring Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Wes Golding, and Terry Baucom. The album arrives June 26 and is available for pre-order now — marking its first vinyl pressing in nearly five decades and its debut
Miranda Lambert and Kacey Musgraves aren’t feuding after all. It was all a sneaky way of teasing a new duet. Read More: Every Current Country Music Feud + Beef The big reveal came as part of Musgraves’ album announcement on Wednesday (March 11.) That project, calledMiddle of Nowhere, will feature a song with Lambert called
Megan Thee Stallion’s secret isn’t viral moments, it’s building genuine connections that turn followers into loyal customers. Megan Thee Stallion just dropped a philosophy that contradicts everything the internet tells you about building a following: being seen isn’t the goal. Understanding is. While everyone’s obsessed with viral moments and engagement metrics, she’s been operating on
Amber Rose reveals on a podcast that she encouraged Kanye West to drink Hennessy before his infamous 2009 VMAs interruption of Taylor Swift. Amber Rose just revealed she played a major role in one of Hip-Hop’s most controversial moments. The model and entrepreneur appeared on the “Ball in the Family” podcast with Lonzo and LiAngelo
Ludacris gets his moment in Atlanta’s Black Music Walk of Fame this June, joining a legendary class that includes cultural icons and industry titans. Ludacris is getting his flowers in his hometown this summer when he joins the Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame class of 2026. The Atlanta legend will be honored on
Salt-N-Pepa could win their appeal and still not get back Push It — and UMG’s new brief explains exactly why that’s possible. Salt-N-Pepa can’t even stream their own music in the United States right now, and UMG just filed a brief explaining exactly why they think it will stay that way. That’s the part of
Marco Rubio drops Cypress Hill and Ice Cube bars while warning Iran during a chaotic White House briefing. Marco Rubio brought the heat to the White House briefing room on Tuesday, dropping Hip-Hop bars while filling in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The Secretary of State and Trump’s national security adviser channeled Cypress Hill when
Jayy Wick faces attempted first-degree murder charges after authorities say he shot an 18-year-old man at a Florida beach during 229 Takeover Weekend. JaYy Wick faces attempted first-degree murder charges after authorities say he opened fire on an 18-year-old man at a Panama City Beach location during the early morning hours of April 25. The
Colman Domingo returned to Temple University as a celebrated Hollywood star, receiving an honorary degree while inspiring Philadelphia graduates. Introducing Dr. Colman Domingo. Actor Colman Domingoreturned to his hometown roots Wednesday as the Oscar nominated actor stood before thousands of graduates atTemple Universityand received an honorary degree decades after leaving school to chase a career
Brorilla just dropped a diss track called “Therapy” taking direct shots at her sister GloRilla, Brandon Ingram, Drake and others caught in the crossfire. Brorilla just took her ongoing feud with sister GloRilla straight to the studio with a new diss track that’s got the internet in a chokehold right now. The track, is a
HoodTrophy Bino’s Made a Way is a raw, 11-track statement on survival, growth, and fatherhood under pressure. Rising heavy-hitter HoodTrophy Bino is back with his most high-stakes project yet, Made a Way. This 11-track album is a blueprint for survival and a testament to the hustle, capturing a definitive moment in Bino’s journey where growth,
While Derek Trucks has been part of some incredible musical collaborations throughout his career, they also helped inform the path he’s taking today with Tedeschi Trucks Band. The guitarist had the honor of being enlisted by Eric Clapton to join his band in the early part of the 2000s and it provided him with opportunities
Nicole Kidman is speaking publicly about her divorce from Keith Urban for the first time — and her focus isn’t on what went wrong. It’s on family. In a new interview with Variety, the Oscar-winning actress opened up about the end of her nearly 20-year marriage to the country superstar, describing the past year as
Crusty Italian black metalists laCasta have been at it for more than a decade but are only now following up their 2020 debutIn Aeturnvm with a new batch of sonic ugliness calledOlibanvm (aka Frankincense). This relentless quartet—Marino Martellotta (bass), Sbrough (drums), Mario Morgante (guitars), Alessandro Donnaloia (vocals/synths)—are offering here a sneak peek of the nine
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Steven Drozd has opened up about being fired from Flaming Lips, saying that frontman Wayne Coyne “just stopped communicating with” him after he “went back to treatment”. Uncertainty about Drozd’s place in the indie band arose last year, when the multi-instrumentalist was absent from their live shows and replaced by AJ Slaughter. At the time,
Lago Eight years of silence have done nothing to soften Lago. The Phoenix, Arizona death metal outfit returns withVigil, a dense, suffocating, and surgically cold new full-length that pushes their bleak atmosphere into sharper, more punishing territory. Formed in 2010, LAGO first emerged with theMarianasEP before releasing their debut full-length,Tyranny, in 2014.Their 2018 album Sea