“I’ve heard artists say this. ‘I don’t use any AI. I don’t use any Suno for my stuff.’ Bull crap. I’m telling you, I’ve seen singers out there give interviews where they’re like ‘I don’t do that. I don’t do that.’ I’m telling you for a fact, LIE.”
There is also a very real possibility that we are witnessing Charley Crockett being legitimately “cancelled,” or at least the attempt to cancel him—and everything that loaded term entails. At the moment, it’s time to sound the red alert.
You can tell it’s a slow news week when it’s a nothing burger with cheese like this that creates the biggest nontroversy in all of music. Charley Crockett ditched one of his openers since they are professed “Satanists.”
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. And that’s what Garth Brooks will be slinging on his upcoming tour. Announced on July 7th after a countdown clock on his website went to zero, “Blame It All On My Roots” promises to take fans back to 1996.
It’s been stigmatized over the years for a performer to have a second job, if not an entirely separate career while pursuing music on the side. Whether it’s fair or not, some perceive that working a second job makes you a second-class musician.
It’s hard to know where to start being enraged at or deconstructing this recent piece of media released by the Country Music Hall of Fame. First off, why are we featuring a pop producer in a display at the Country Music Hall of Fame?
As has been pretty widely reported, as the visage of Taylor Swift was displayed at the concert, it was met with a showering of boos. Looking through the videos, you can also hear plenty of cheers. In truth, it was a mixed reception.
It’s a tale as old as time for massive private equity firms to buy into iconic American brands like the Grand Ole Opry, mismanage the assets, implement draconian cost cutting measures, and then liquidate assets.
We always knew Bailey Zimmerman was a douchebag that was looking to take after Morgan Wallen. Now he’s got the felony charges to prove it. But there’s even a bigger concern about this situation.
For the last five years or so, Jelly Roll and Bunny Xo have been using the very personal details of their lives and relationship to sell themselves to the public via the stenographers in the media, and the public has been buying it wholesale.
Fans of country music artist Brad Paisley have been celebrating recently as new songs from the performer have been populating on streaming services a few at a time, and have been reminding them of his early career output in the best of ways.
So Garth Brooks is pondering the sale of his music catalog, including both his publishing and recorded music rights, all of which he’s retained sole ownership of over his career. Garth’s asking price is said to be upwards of $2 billion.
Ever since Taylor Swift went full-blown pop with her 2014 album 1989, there’s been numerous murmurs, head fakes, false starts, and inferences that certain songs from her have been a return to “country” by the massive global superstar.
Well lookey here, it’s another Morgan Wallen nontroversy. And even though the dude has done some completely stupid things over the years that have deserved criticism or outright ridicule, this one feels like a big fat nothing burger.
Sam Barber is a contemporary folk artist who has so much more similar in style, sound and approach to the music of Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan, Joshua Slone, and other massive artists that have been dominating charts.
Getting too hot and bothered about country performers launching brands or doing endorsement deals is a fool’s errand. But there is something specific about Wal-Mart that makes the whole thing feel, well … icky.
While in Austin, TX earlier this year for the DuraMAX Texas Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas, Kyle Busch and his wife Samantha stopped by Austin’s famed honky-tonk Sagebrush.
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If this is the worst “controversy” Zach Top has to deal with in his career, he will be sitting pretty. And that comes with the caveat if it should even be considered a controversy at all. But what he did say was misguided.
The beauty in the world is the new Kacey Musgraves album ‘Middle of Nowhere.’ That’s what we should focus on, not trying to use “country music” as a dumping ground for the power elite to distract from their privilege.
What exactly “authenticity” is, and what role it plays or should play in country and Western music has always been a fiercely-debated topic; almost as fiercely debated as what country music even is by definition.
We don’t know for sure since nobody is talking in either the Charley Crockett camp, or at Island Records. But talking to numerous individuals within the music industry, there is a handful of likely reasons ‘Clovis’ was pulled.
What is indisputable at this point is that Ella Langley is nothing short of a country music superstar. She is one of the biggest stars to be launched from the country genre in years, and is one of the biggest artists in all music.
Oh great, another list. And just like what always happens with lists these days, people treat them like it’s a “Where’s Waldo?” exercise, scouring through them to find what to tear apart based on their own tastes.