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October 24, 2021 FEATURED, Music News First Look At Khalid’s New Mixtape ‘Scenic Drive’ Shares First Single ‘Present’ Khalid released a new single, “Present,” taken from his upcoming mixtape, Scenic Drive, out December 3. In a press release Khalid explained the track saying; “I’ve had the chance to listen to a lot of music and

Luke Bryan provided roadside service to a single mom in need on Sunday morning (Oct. 24). Courtney Potts was stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire and her two young kids when Bryan pulled up alongside her. Video from Potts’ Instagram account shows the megastar on his knees, working a tire iron to help get

Brandi Carlile made her Saturday Night Live debut this weekend with explosive performances of “Broken Horses” and “Right on Time” that earned extended applause from the studio audience. Carlile will take that captivating stage presence on the road in 2022 with the headlining Beyond These Silent Days Tour, which gets underway next summer. Named for

Country trio Pistol Annies have released their first-ever Christmas album, Hell of a Holiday. Out Friday (Oct. 22), the 13-song collection features three covers and ten originals, including the ebullient title track. “​​It’s gonna be a hell of a holiday and it’s only just begun / The whole world is decorating and it’s only November

Rising star Brittney Spencer is set to hit the road for her first-ever headlining run at the end of 2021. Her In a Perfect World Tour — which is named after a line from “Sober and Skinny,” a song she put out over the summer — kicks off Dec. 2 at Rockwood Music Hall in

October 25, 2021 FEATURED, Music News A Soulful Debut From UK Breakout Star Mimi Webb With Her EP ‘Seven Shades Of Heartbreak’ [embedded content] After building anticipation worldwide, UK pop singer and songwriter Mimi Webb proudly presents her debut Seven Shades of Heartbreak EP. Listen to it HERE via Epic Records. The seven-track project places her show-stopping vocals, eloquent songwriting, and undeniable

Miranda Lambert sure lives in style. The country superstar has pretty diverse taste in spectacular homes, but they have one thing in common: they are absolutely beautiful. Lambert and her first husband, Blake Shelton, owned a home together in Nashville, though pictures of that property have yet to emerge. They also lived together in Oklahoma,

Flatland Cavalry have come a long way, both literally and figuratively. When the band’s singer, Cleto Cordero, speaks with Rolling Stone, he and the band are in Texarkana, on the eastern border of his home state of Texas, having driven all the way from the West Texas city of Odessa — not quite the entire

Ava Rowland currently finds herself living a life that she could previously only dream of. The Ohio native is continuing to climb the steps toward country music stardom in the future thanks to songs such as “He’s Like a Habit” and “Mama’s Favorite Song.” But with her new single “Ghost,” she’s taking a moment to look

Olivia Newton-John has been battling Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer for years, and in a new interview on the Today show, she says she’s “feeling pretty good” due to medical cannabis. The pop superstar and actor appeared on the show on Oct. 20 to talk to Hoda Kotb about the 40th anniversary of her iconic

It’s been 40 years since Neal McCoy said “I do” to his wife, Melinda Williams — after their romance began in a shoe store. The very first time that McCoy laid eyes on Williams, he was working at his first job, at a shoe store in the mall, and she was working at another store. “She came

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit played night six of their eight-night Ryman Auditorium residency on Friday and featured Allison Russell opening the show with songs from her solo album Outside Child. During Russell’s set, Isbell popped onstage to be the Tom Petty to Russell’s Stevie Nicks on a cover of the 1981 duet “Stop

Chris Stapleton and Rage Against the Machine frontman Tom Morello have joined forces for a roots-rock epic, “The War Inside.” A sunset-tinged, animated music video, which follows a couple driving backwards in time across a disaster-ravaged American landscape, accompanies the song. Displaying Stapleton’s singular vocals and Morello’s famous blend of heavy metal and hip-hop guitar sounds, “The

Jessie James Decker has announced a full scale tour for next spring. Her 2022 The Woman I’ve Become Tour includes 24 stops across the country. Decker and opening act Adam Doleac will begin on April 14 in Detroit and stay on the road through early June, finishing at the Mission Ballroom in Denver, the city in

Country music singers relied on the hits in creating the best new Christmas songs of 2021. Lee Brice, Brett Eldredge, Josh Turner, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and more recorded Christmas standards for albums, EPs and digital releases this year. Tops on our list of new country Christmas songs? Wilson’s cover of George Strait’s “Christmas Cookies.” The best

Billy Strings got his start in bluegrass music, but he’s been steadily expanding his sound and allowing shades of psychedelia and metal to filter into his recent albums. For his debut on Austin City Limits this weekend, however, the Michigan singer-guitarist goes back to his roots to perform a lively version of “Red Daisy.” Flanked by

Zac Brown Band deliver some much-needed feel-good energy in the music video for the title track of their just-released new album, The Comeback. Like the lyrics of the song — and the album as a whole — ZBB’s “The Comeback” video speaks directly to the current cultural moment, underscoring the difficulties many have faced during the COVID-19

Brandi Carlile joins Elton John to celebrate the “Simple Things” in a new collaboration. The song features the two in jubilant, knowledge-dispensing harmony over a jaunty, piano-driven melody. “Simple things / Hard to learn / Fire’s hot / Burn, burn, burn,” goes the song’s chorus. “Simple truths / Hard to see / Not what you want, but what

“No thanks will come your way when you’re living in the center of a circle made to break,” Yola sings early on in “Be My Friend,” a compelling track from her newest album, Stand for Myself. In addition to warning powerfully against complacency, the lyric asks for meaningful connection across social, political and cultural division, a

Eric Church and Mickey Guyton are among the first round of artists announced as performers at the 2021 CMA Awards, which are set to take place on November 10th at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Church will perform the song “Heart on Fire” from his Album of the Year contender Heart, while Guyton will be joined by

Pop-country duo SixForty1 know what it feels like to have your heart broken. They channeled those experiences into their new song “Me and Your Memory,” premiering exclusively on The Boot. “We all have the ‘one that got away,’ whose memory we still live with,” SixForty1 tell The Boot. “We just wanted to shed some light on

Chris Stapleton has pushed two scheduled shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena back to December, per doctor’s orders. This Thursday’s (Oct. 21) concert in Cincinnati is also being postponed. The news comes four days after the singer and CMA Entertainer of the Year nominee rescheduled a show for Sioux Falls, S.D. Stapleton has laryngitis and isn’t

Miranda Lambert is longing for life in the wild West in “If I Was a Cowboy”: “If I was a cowboy, I’d be wild and free / Rollin’ around these towns like tumbleweeds … If I was a cowboy, I’d be the queen,” she sings in the chorus. Lambert co-wrote “If I Was a Cowboy” with Jesse Frasure,

It’s a great day to believe a lie. Freedom fighter Travis Tritt made a pair of appearances on right-wing talk shows this week after publicly declaring that he would not perform concerts in venues that require Covid-19 vaccination, masks or even testing. Naturally, he cited fellow anti-lockdown crusader Eric Clapton for lighting the path forward.

Lee Brice‘s new single “Soul” isn’t a reinvention. It might even amount to a simple vacation from the more urgent, emotional style he’s made his signature for a decade — but everyone needs a vacation. The singer has tilted left before with great success. “A Woman Like You” was a lighter vocal for him, and

The battle pairings on Season 21’s The Voice are coming to an end, which means emotions are running high as coaches continue to whittle down their teams from 11 to 10. On Tuesday night (Oct. 19), Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Ariana Grande listened on as the final Battle Round performers took to the

Twenty-two years ago today, on Oct. 19, 1999, Keith Urban‘s debut solo album was released. The self-titled record marked Urban’s worldwide launch as a solo artist. Previously, Urban had released another self-titled solo album in 1991, but only in Australia, as well as an album in 1997, The Ranch (later re-released and re-named Keith Urban in the Ranch), with

Garth Brooks had to cancel his headlining Stadium Tour appearance at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium this summer due to severe weather, but the country superstar has already booked his return, albeit on a much smaller scale. On Tuesday, Brooks announced plans to play a pair of back-to-back shows at the Ryman Auditorium, capacity around 2,300. Set

Unlike his peers Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney and Faith Hill, who offered a more traditional sound on their early recordings, Keith Urban started out as a soft rock- and R&B-loving pop-country pace-setter. Fans could hear it all the way back in 1999, on his self-titled American debut (not to be confused with his lesser-known Australian debut from

Texas mainstay Randy Rogers Band have released a new single, “Picture Frames.” Co-written by band frontman Randy Rogers with singer-songwriter/producer Drew Kennedy, it’s a heartfelt look back on a love story, as told through the pictures hanging on the couple’s wall. The song’s first verse begins at the beginning, recounting an early date in New Orleans. “We