Nashville’s 2020 CMA Fest (June 4–7) may have been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Country Music Association is planning to keep fans entertained this summer. Jimmie Allen and Lindsay Ell will host CMA Summer Stay-Cay on July 1 at 5 p.m. CT. The live-stream event will air via CMA’s YouTube and Facebook.…… MORE
More than 40 country stars, musicians and celebrities will join forces for CMT’s Feed the Front Line Live benefit concert on May 20. Feed the Front Line is dedicated to supporting local economies by purchasing meals from struggling restaurants and then donating the meals to frontline workers and other people in need during the COVID-19…… MORE
The nomination for the 55th ACM Awards were announce on Feb. 27, and while artists like Dan + Shay, Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett racked up multiple nominations, there were more than a few questionable omissions—as well as inclusions—in the nomination process. Based on my first glance, here are the snubs and surprises from the…… MORE
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Performing rights organization SESAC held its Nashville Music Awards at the Country Music Hall of Fame on Nov. 10 to honor its Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year, Publisher of the Year and the its Most Performed Songs of 2019. Justin Ebach, who co-penned Dustin Lynch’s “Good Girl” and Brett Young’s “Here Tonight,”…… MORE
Chris Lane will hit the road this fall and winter for his Big, Big Plans Tour. Kicking off in Cincinnati on Oct. 31, the 29-date tour will make additional stops in Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Nashville, Dallas, L.A., Detroit and more. Gabby Barrett, Blanco Brown and Ernest will serve as support on select dates. “After a…… MORE
Rick Moranis will return to once again play Dark Helmet in “Spaceballs 2”!!! Bill Pullman will return as the hero Lone Starr, too. And Mel Brooks will be back as Yogurt . . . and, presumably . . . President Skroob. (He played both characters in the original.) Ted Danson’s wife Mary Steenburgen will play…
Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson has died. His family didn’t announce the exact date or cause of death, but he was diagnosed with dementia and placed in a conservatorship last year. He was 82. Wilson was plagued by drug addiction and mental illness throughout his life. By 1964 he had stopped touring with the band.…