For Americana fans, one of the live music highlights of 2017 was Jason Isbell’s historic six-night, sold out run at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Now, Isbell has two exciting new Ryman-related announcements. First, on October 19th the beloved singer-songwriter and his band the 400 Unit will release Live From the Ryman …

“Someone said youth is wasted on the young,” Lori McKenna sang recently on “People Get Old,” the first song to be released from her upcoming LP The Tree. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter builds on the theme with her latest song, “Young and Angry Again,” a playful ode to making the most …

Nick Offerman is a good dude to have around when a movie shows danger signs of descending into sentimental drool. Hearts Beat Loud beats that curse because the actor has always been allergic to bullshit. In Brett Haley’s Brooklyn-set family fluffball, the formerParks and Recreationstar plays Frank, a widower who …

Little Big Town turn up the heat and turn back the clock with their just-released single “Summer Fever.” A breezy nod to the mellow tunes that dominated AM radio in the Seventies and Eighties, the song was co-written by the group’s Karen Fairchild with Jesse Frasure, Cary Barlowe and Sam …

Roseanne co-star Sara Gilbert reflected on the series’ cancellationand its overall legacy following Roseanne Barr‘s racist tweet during Monday’s episode of The Talk. “I would like to say this has been a very difficult week,” said the show’s co-host. “A lot of people have been hurt by this. I will …

In a business where media training is all but an essential part of the artist development process, BJ Barham remains a refreshingly candid interview. While previewing his band American Aquarium’s new album Things Change this week, the North Carolina singer-songwriter also weighed in on his relationship with Jason Isbell, navigating …

As the host of the Discovery Channel’s Survivorman, Les Stroud entertained viewers with his immersive approach to the wilderness – as in, he’d drop himself into a remote locale with only a few tools and challenge himself to make it out unscathed. But the Canadian-born Stroud also spreads his nature-first …

Annual bluegrass festival DelFest wrapped up its 11th year on Sunday, bringing together dozens of artists and fans of the genre at Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, Maryland. The four-day musical gathering was host to both established grass legends and vanguard up-and-comers, with a healthy measure of onstage collaborations such …

YouTube has removed more than 30 music videos, concentrated in one genre, after British police blamed them for inciting murder and violent crime. The decision came after Cressinda Dick, commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Service, said in a public radio interview earlier this month that drill music – a subset …

Last weekend, President Trump fired off a series of angry tweets labeling the ongoing independent investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia as a “Witch Hunt” while shifting the blame onto his former political opponent, Hillary Clinton. Those tweets have reverberated through the Capitol in the days since. “I thought …