Zach Bryan got drunk, and decided he was going to be a tough guy. It probably was not the smartest of decisions. Gavin Adcock is a troll, and the first rule of how to deal with a troll is to not feed them.
The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville has announced the theme for their next major exhibit. About every couple of years, the Hall of Fame features a big exhibit that delves into some era or influence.
But whether your Freedom of Speech hero is Charlie Kirk or Jesse Welles, it should be for all of us to protect our neighbor’s right to “say exactly what [they] mean all the time.”
It’s a very real possibility that Zach Top doesn’t win a single trophy at the 2025 CMA Awards. But in some respects, it doesn’t matter if he does. He’s already won as a traditionalist on an independent label.
Accusing someone of “gatekeeping” is just an intellectually lazy, thought and discussion-ending enterprise designed to win arguments online as opposed to addressing the very real and systemic issues.
In 2022, an effort was undertaken to erect a memorial that would incorporate the “weeping angel” design at Keith Whitley’s final resting place. It has finally been completed.
the bigger you get, the brighter the spotlight shines, and the greater the scrutiny comes down, especially when you’re scrutinizing others. Charley Crockett is starting to feel those effects.
They’re always showing up to functions and award shows, making big impressions at places like the Grand Ole Opry, yet they’ve always been on the outside looking in when it comes to breaking out into country stardom.
No seriously folks, throwing stuff at the stage at country music concerts is not cool. It’s dangerous, it’s disruptive, and it’s getting out of hand. And no, this is not a mainstream country issue.
“It’s been infiltrated by California, just like everything else.” This answer is simply a stock, reactionary, culture war-inspired, flinging of red meat to a right wing constituency that is not rooted in truth whatsoever.
One artist that we know won’t be submitting their work to the Recording Academy happens to also be the biggest artist in all of “country” music. Morgan Wallen has let it be known that he won’t be submitting.
Over the last few months and years, something has been coming to the rescue of this relic of mass advertisement: independent country music. Charley Crockett, the Turnpike Troubadours and others have used billboards.
Charley Crockett has been making more and more public pronouncements that make you want to pump your fists, ranting about the music business, and making David Goggins-like motivational points
George Strait is more than deserving of the honor, and it feels like it’s coming at the perfect time in his career. But as to be expected, in this politically acrimonious time we live in, it’s been polarized by some.
This unassuming building, formerly known as the Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, was once the home and creative nucleus of legendary producer and songwriter Cowboy Jack Clement.
Along with Luckenbach, TX and Gruene Hall, The Coupland Dancehall in Coupland, TX about 25 miles east of Austin is one of the legendary spots where so much Texas music history has been made.
Hate on Lower Broadway all you want. But if you really want to make a difference about how that area is evolving, steer people to the places down there that are still doing it right, that act like beacons of true artistic expression.
At this point, TikTok viralty and Spotify algorithms aren’t just the new thing or the biggest thing. They might be the only thing that matters in music anymore. This creates a dilemma.
Beyoncé’s recently concluded “Cowboy Carter Tour” was recently declared the “Biggest Country Tour in Billboard Boxscore History.” But of course, there is an important list of caveats to this record-breaking feat.
When the history books regard this era when the independent became the mainstream in country music, Tyler Childers will play perhaps the most important, and most pivotal role in that story.
It’s even worse when country music’s institutions recognize artists for being country when these artists don’t even recognize being country themselves, and don’t even care for the recognition.
Sometimes life unfolds like a country song, and it’s too hard to believe. The sordid tale of the widow of George Jones and her relationship with convicted criminal Kirk West is one of those stories.
Once again the public is being asked to weigh the character of Zach Bryan after an online imbroglio. And once again, the scenario feels like a big nothing burger, blown out of proportion.
It wasn’t just the music that intrigued us about these two men. It was the men themselves, and how they walked through the darkness of life, and turned it into light through music.