If you’re looking for a weekend jam, direct yourself in the direction of Blake Shelton’s 2016 collaboration with the Oak Ridge Boys, “Doing It to Country Songs.” What’s it about? Let’s look at some of the lyrics:

During an appearance guest hosting The Voice (I was told by someone who watched that “she says things that mean nothing, but she looks beautiful so”), Shania Twain announced that her first new album in over 15 years will be released this September, with the first single coming in June. It’s called “Life’s About to…

There was a time when country stars like Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Jr., and the problematic-but-influential Louvin Brothers helped define the genre as we know it by wearing their hearts on their sleeves—singing about bad luck, failed romances, and worries that, eep, they might be going to hell. But that country…

“Everyone here’s a fucking idiot,” says Wheeler Walker, Jr., of the artists and fans flocking to the 2016 CMT Awards. Evidence of this idiocy lies in the fact that his album isn’t selling nearly as well as (for example) Blake Shelton’s, even though Walker—unlike just about everyone else in the building, he explains—is…

Jerry Greer, 19-year-old son of country singer Craig Morgan, was found dead on Monday, July 11. He had been missing since Sunday, when he fell overboard during a Kentucky Lake boating trip in Tennessee.

Welcome to That’s My Title, a series in which we’ll explore songs that have similar titles and, as such, generally similar premises.

Here is what I wanted to say about Kiefer Sutherland’s new country music video and single: “Are you Walker, Texas Ranger? Are you walked and woke, Kiefer Sutherland?”

On Wednesday, Rayna and Deacon finally got married—but not before the groom and the rest of the family almost ruined it all, because that’s the way of the heart-wrenching nighttime soap called Nashville. So how many ways was the #Nashvillewedding nearly cancelled? Let’s look back and commiserate, shall we?

Imagine if someone approached you and asked, “Wanna hear some new music from Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris?” How would you respond? With a silent shrug? A quick “No”? With a gasp, followed by, “What do I look like, some kind of dummy? Of course I wanna hear some new music from Trio!” If it’s more…

For years, Drew and Jonathan Scott were just twin brothers who were tremendously and inexplicably famous on HGTV due to their shared love of property and each other. But late last year, they transitioned into twin brothers who are using their tremendous and inexplicable fame on HGTV due to their shared love of…

Jamie Lynn Spears, former Nickelodeon star and sister of Britney Jean, has just reached a fairly significant milestone in her blossoming songwriting career: she’s entered the Billboard Hot 100. Spears co-write Jana Kramer’s “I Got the Boy,” which debuted at No. 92 this week.

Carrie Underwood, the Grammy-winning country singer who will destroy your property with a baseball bat and never get charged for it, released a new track from her upcoming album Storyteller this week, and it’s got a long title. Not Illinois-era Sufjan Stevens long, but long.

Country music power couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert’s divorce is expected to be finalized on Monday, according to TMZ. Shelton reportedly filed in Oklahoma.

Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” is catchy as hell and that knowledge isn’t lost on Carrie Underwood, who gave the song a Nashville twist in at the Big Barrel Country Music Festival on Sunday. Cue the twangy guitars!

It’s 85 degrees out as dusk lowers itself onto downtown Nashville. A breeze slowly wends its way through the crowd, roaming around the hordes of young women in short-shorts, every article of clothing possible covered in fringe, perfectly curled hair rolling down their backs, blindingly white grins open wide as they…

The most specific cheers at Brooke Hogan’s performance Friday afternoon at the Hard Rock Cafe stage at CMA Fest in Nashville, it must be said, were for Josh, her guitarist, who had several fans (family members) in the crowd waving signs for him.

Titled like a nod to Salinger or a year-end anthology, Brandy Clark’s debut album 12 Stories begins with a promise, as well as a reminder of what country music has always claimed, and lately, often, failed, to do. It’s stories, not anecdotes, not scenarios, not atmosphere that drives the genre—but real stories, rife…

Sam Hunt, the former college football player turned country hit-maker responsible for love-lorn, hip-hop infused tracks, has been compared to Drake before, in a way that perhaps reveals the mainstream music press’s biases a little too clearly. (They’ve been particularly linked after Hunt covered “Marvin’s Room” in…

Randy Howard was an early ‘80s country star who toured with the likes of Willie Nelson and released novelty numbers like “All American Redneck” (“He’s got a pick-up truck/he loves to fuck”) and “My Nose Don’t Work No More” which is, obviously, about snorting too much cocaine. Unfortunately, like all the best country…