Chris Stapleton was the most-played artist on TouchTunes jukeboxes, as the music company releases its year-end charts. As a whole, country music accounts for more than half of the most-played artists and songs on digital jukeboxes in 2017. The charts measure plays tallied by digital jukeboxes in 65,000 U.S. bars …
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Ty Dolla $ign pairs an upbeat R&B-pop tune with a surprisingly tragic story in the new video for “Side Effects.” The song appears onthe rap star’s latest album, Beach House 3. The Ryan Hope-directed clip opens with several sequences of pure joy: A young man falls in love, creates music …
Read More »Miranda Lambert Launches New Pet Product Campaign, Readies Clothing Line
Ahead of the Christmas holiday, Miranda Lambert‘s MuttNation foundation has unveiled a new line of pet products in collaboration with the Petmate brand, with all proceeds going to her dog-loving charity. The new line includes plush toys based on the 2018 Grammy nominee’s real-life shelter rescues along with “Free Love” …
Read More »Hear Wade Bowen's Tex-Mex Flavored New Song 'Day of the Dead'
Wade Bowen has advertised his new LP Solid Ground as his “Texas album,” and it’s not an idea he’s taking lightly. The album, due February 9th via Thirty Tigers, will feature fellow Texans Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, and – based on the new song “Day of the …
Read More »See Shania Twain's Explosive Performance at Canada's Grey Cup
The Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup championship game is, like America‘s Super Bowl, one of the most-watched annual events on Canadian television, so it’s only natural the country would recruit one of its biggest stars for a spectacular halftime show. At the 105th Grey Cup on Sunday, which saw the …
Read More »Lanco Detail Debut LP 'Hallelujah Nights'
Nashville country-rock band Lanco are closing out 2017 with a crescendo, as their single “Greatest Love Story” is currently spending a second week in the Number One spot on country radio. They’ll carry that momentum forward into 2018, when they release their debut LP Hallelujah Nights on January 19th. Produced …
Read More »Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter Accused of Rape
UPDATE: The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said that it is currently reviewing a sexual assault accusation against Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter, according to Deadline. *** Melissa Schuman, former member of teen-pop group Dream, has accused Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter of rape. In a detailed blog post, …
Read More »Review: Charlotte Gainsbourg's Spacey Trip With Macca, Half of Daft Punk
On her first LP in seven years, singer-actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Sixties French pop star Serge Gainsbourg) exudes the same droll, distracted sense of uneasy whimsy she’s brought to her screen performances and previous music projects. Fans of spacey Nineties lounge-pop like Air or Broadcast will drift along happily …
Read More »See Margo Price's Funky 'Do Right By Me' at 2017 Americana Awards
One month before her latest album All American Made hit stores, Margo Price previewed the country-soul standout “Do Right By Me” with a live performance at the 2017 Americana Honors and Awards. That performance appears during the newest episode of Austin City Limits, whose hour-long abbreviation of the Americana ceremony …
Read More »Watch R.E.M.'s Extended, NSFW 'Nightswimming' Video
R.E.M.have unveiled an extended and not-safe-for-work version of the video for their 1993 single “Nightswimming.” The so-called “R version” of the clip will see release on the 25th-anniversary reissue of Automatic for the People, out November 10th via Craft Recordings. The “R version” of “Nightswimming” features an extended intro in …
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