The Country Music Hall of Fame officially inducted its 2026 Hall of Fame class on Sunday. But unless you’re a country music ultra-nerd—and even if you are—there’s a good chance you didn’t even know they were happening.
At some point, we got tired of fast food and TV dinners as a society, and all the artificial flavors and chemical preservatives they contain. What you feed your brain and your soul is just as important, if not more.
After David Allan Coe’s passing on April 29th, 2026 at the age of 86, many Coe fans are wondering what his prospects are for getting into the Hall of Fame, either in the near future, or ever? This is a very fair question to ask.
Released on October 2nd by Drake on a deluxe edition of his latest record called “Habibti (FOMO),” the song called “Solar Eclipse” is basically a reworking of “Choosin’ Texas,” just with different lyrics, and a totally different vibe.
What strangely went under-reported is that on Thursday (10-8), Musgraves stopped into Austin’s famed honky-tonk The White Horse to play a surprise intimate show for the two-stepping crowd, reprising a bunch of old school country covers.
Like so much that ‘Rolling Stone’ publishes these days, this headline, and this statement is categorically and provably false. In fact, it’s so false, the exact opposite is the case, and it’s shocking in its either sheer ignorance, or its attempt to gaslight.
Clearly we live in a moment where visual media is virtually required. But what is an artist to do if they don’t want to break their budget on a bunch of live actors only to limit the scope of their music?
Well, it finally happened. As anyone with any good sense knew, at some point, someone was going to end up seriously hurt and in the hospital due to being hit by something thrown during a Treaty Oak Revival show.
It’s officially official. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is now the longest-running #1 single in the all-genre Billboard 100 history—a history that goes back all the way to 1958. This week, the song spent its 23rd week at #1.
It’s hard not to notice a growing trend in our sawdust-covered corner of the world. Not long ago, fights on social media were fairly rare. It felt like something that happened around the music, and not instead of it.
Perhaps the coolest and most remarkable aspect of the elevation of Ella Langley and “Choosin’ Texas” to the most popular song in all of music is that Ella has done this all by herself. There was no featured artist or remix.
After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, John PayCheck resigned his position as the tour manager for his famous father, and joined the the U.S Army. He would end up spending more than 20 years in the military.
It’s nationwide, and affecting all genres. We’re losing large swaths of the population of blue collar, club-level working musicians who can sustain themselves without any other means of employment, and at an alarming pace.
It’s only a matter of time until Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is officially crowned the biggest single in American music history. It’s already the longest-running #1 single on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
This question was inevitable in the passing of Dolly Parton on August 25th. And the only logical conclusion is “nobody.” But posed as a hypothetical and a thought exercise, who could be that person that we revere on the same level as Dolly Parton?
Is Stella Lefty an “Industry Plant”? Was her career “Astroturfed”? Is she a “Nepo Baby?” Frankly, I really don’t care. Frankly, I really don’t care. But the more the legacy media tries to convince me that Stella Lefty isn’t a Nepo Baby, the more I think she is.
It’s over. At least for the most part, and for now. And though the producers of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other corporate-warped minds might think he’s still the current hot thing, the truth is that Jelly Roll is cold product
Yeah, I saw all the back and forths between Charley Crockett and Jack White last week. I also found the entire exchange and aftermath to be aggressively, aggressively boring. Don’t you think we’ve squeezed that turnip enough?
There’s worse offenses for sure. Nobody should be looking to “cancel” Miranda Lambert over this issue. Artists deserve to get paid. But is it a bad look? It kind of is. She could have passed it to someone else.
Hayden Panettiere (pronounced pan-a-teery) was not a country star. She simply portrayed one on television. But as her life drew parallel to the one she played on the small screen, it became eerily similar to the stories we’ve seen play out.
Recently, a Saturday Night Live skit featuring comedian Chris Farley impersonating Hank Williams Jr. has been making the rounds online. Originally aired as part of Season 23, Episode 4 on October 25th, 1997, the skit is quite hilarious.
All of the Ella Langley accolades and attention have somewhat overshadowed the rather incredible success of another song, Stella Lefty’s “Boston.” Whether it deserves to be or not, it has also been assigned to the domain of “country.”
Tyler Childers does not give audio or video interviews these days. He just doesn’t do it. Simply seeing Tyler Childers speaking extemporaneously on camera this week in a video released was a little jarring almost.
It used to be that whenever a true country music traditionalist came down the pike—especially a younger one—it had us all in a tizzy because it was such a rare occurrence. Now it’s not a rare occurrence at all.