Music Country

Sam Hunt wanders the sleepy streets of Bernal, Mexico, in the new video for “Downtown’s Dead,” the moody follow-up single to his juggernaut “Body Like a Back Road.” Filled with dusty scenes of a mostly empty town –including Bernal’s stunning cathedral – and Hunt drifting around on an old motorcycle, …

“This sounds like I’m full of shit,” Lori McKenna says, adding a dose of salt to her otherwise sweet, mom-next-door demeanor, “but I’m just so happy that I get to have music as a career.” Frankly, it’s hard to imagine a world in which anyone would ever doubt McKenna’s sincerity. …

In the intensely delicate and moving pop-country tune “A Day Without,” newcomer Abi delves into the profound feelings of pain and uncertainty that come with experiencing loss. The subject is something the 20-year-old knows all too well, having had to cope with the death of her father. In the new …

Kentucky-born performer Tyler Childers has extended his wide-ranging 2018 summer tour into fall, with plans to headline some of the biggest venues of his still-accelerating career. Nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year at the upcoming Americana Music Association Honors and Awards, the unflinching singer-songwriter’s new dates begin October 10th …

Keith Urban‘s latest single “Coming Home” is all about taking the familiar and making it strange and new – even going so far as to repurpose one of country’s most famous guitar riffs. So it’s fitting that Urban’s surreal new video for “Coming Home” takes the world and turns it, …

The rip-roaring spirit of early rock & roll looks to be alive and well in 2018 thanks to the all-killer pairing of Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis, who are dropping their new collaborative LP Wild! Wild! Wild! this summer via Chicago’s Bloodshot Records. Driven by a boogie-friendly bottom end …

The Academy of Country Music has announced the recipients of its special honors, with Dierks Bentley tapped to receive the ACM Merle Haggard Spirit Award, in recognition of a career that has spanned eight albums and blazed a unique trail with his artistry, just as the award’s namesake did during …

Nothing says “outlaw” like a Caribbean cruise, and for the fourth year running the Outlaw Country Cruise will set sail in January 2019. When it does, it will have a stacked lineup including Drive-By Truckers, Margo Price and Lucinda Williams all onboard. Run in conjunction by Steve Van Zandt’s Renegade …

This year’s 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards arrived with a pall cast over the show, as it was the first time the country music community convened in Las Vegas since the Route 91 Harvest festival. On October 1st, a gunman shot and killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more …

To those who follow Kacey Musgraves on Instagram, the Grammy-winning country singer is simply “@spaceykacey.” She fully grows into that moniker on her latest album, the lush Golden Hour, a collection of country, folk and dreamy electronica that she sums up as “space country” or “galactic country.” For Musgraves, who …