The Country Music Association announced nominees for the 2022 CMA Awards on Wednesday morning (Sept. 9). Newcomer Lainey Wilson earned six nominations has become the fourth country artist in history to earn six nominations in their first year on the CMA ballot. Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Chris Stapleton and hit songwriter Shane McAnally earned five nominations each. Miranda
0 Comments
Seasoned singer-songwriter Jonathan Terrell keeps the honky-tonk close to home — in more ways than one — in his infectious new song ”Place Out Back,” which is exclusively premiering at The Boot today (Sept. 8). The track’s galloping groove, anchored by electric guitar and cleverly-layered auxiliary accompaniment, echoes the bustling electricity that wafts through the late night haze of a
0 Comments
Many Americans take their physical fitness seriously. On the aerobic exercise front, around 50 million people regularly go running or jogging. That’s to say nothing of all of the people who take yoga classes, have gym memberships, or participate in some other kind of regular physical training. Of course, most serious physical activity requires shoes
0 Comments
John Michael Montgomery was involved in a serious bus crash on Friday (Sept. 9) that left three people injured. The country singer was on his way to a concert in North Carolina when the accident occurred. Montgomery says he’ll need several weeks to recover. WATE-TV in Campbell County, Tenn., shares that the country singer’s bus was traveling
0 Comments
SATURDAY AM UPDATE: With the exit of New Line’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot in what has been a lucrative post Labor Day weekend pre-pandemic, Disney swooped in and booked its 20th Century Studios horror title Barbarian. That pic, directed and written by Zach Cregger, follows a woman staying at an Airbnb, who discovers that the house she
0 Comments
Writer/Director Jalmari Helander delivered a delightfully wicked twist to Santa Claus in 2010’s genre-bender Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Helander’s latest, Sisu, sees the filmmaker reteaming with some familiar Rare Exports faces for another crowd-pleasing genre-bender, this time an R-rated journey through Lapland near the end of World War II. The period action adventure goes hard on hyper-violence and
0 Comments
Phillips has announced the highlights from The Geneva Sessions, the first online auction curated by Phillips’ watch specialists in Geneva. In addition to Patek Philippe, Rolex, Audemars Piguet and F.P. Journe, this tightly curated selection of timepieces will include over 50 lots. There are many styles and budgets to suit with The Geneva Sessions, which
0 Comments
Faced with an impossible puzzle, lab monkeys in a recent experiment showed unflappable resolve: They continued to guess what they thought must be the correct responses, even when rewards were doled out at random or in ways meant to disincentivize the animals from sticking to their guns. In short, the monkeys’ spuriously learned convictions—their seeming
0 Comments
Track is his second recent song recorded with producer Vance Powell Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has released a new single, “Born & Raised.” The rollicking track was recorded with producer Vance Powell and features Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and Eagles of Death Metal drummer Julian Doro, along with keyboardist Mike Webb and steel guitarist Luke Schneider. The reflective song
0 Comments
Weight of the world got you down? Feeling jaded about love? Escape into a world of romance by rediscovering some classics and/or recent gems you may have missed. Here are just a few to get you going. There’s something for everyone on this list — comedies, period pieces, musicals, fantasy, and more! Somewhere In Time
0 Comments
The movies by anthropologist filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel hinge on proximity. They survey unknown spaces, seeking intimate gateways into new environments and perspectives. With each work, intimacy arises by re-purposing the camera to obliterate the barriers between it and its subjects. In Castaing-Taylor and Paravel’s posthumanist masterwork Leviathan (2012), they adopt an aquatic
0 Comments