The seemingly odd-couple pairing of Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake is one of the most anticipated performances of tonight’s 49th CMA Awards. But it’s not Timberlake’s first appearance on the star-studded awards show. That came courtesy of country music’s most successful group, Alabama. From 1980 to 1987, the country-pop supergroup enjoyed an… Source: Music […]

It was two hours of grownup girl power at City Winery in Nashville yesterday when the third class of CMT’s Next Women of Country initiative was showcased with live music, special guests and big announcements. The third annual event is part of CMT’s initiative to “increase the exposure of female artists… Source: Music […]

Peter Gabriel hasn’t released an album of original material since 2002’s Up, though he’s stayed busy with a series of tours and the covers project Scratch My Back. He’s supposedly been working on a new LP over the past year, and last week’s South Park played a large portion of his… Source: Music News

Members of Eric Church’s fan club the Church Choir were treated to a surprise yesterday afternoon, when copies of Mr. Misunderstood — a new studio album from the Chief himself, with unfussy production by Outsiders producer Jay Joyce — arrived in their mailboxes. Unannounced and thoroughly unexpected, the record appears to be the… Source: Music News

Bad Brains guitarist Dr. Know, real name Gary Miller, is reportedly in the hospital and on life support, according to social media posts by author Greg Tate, the Dean Ween Group and Living Colour guitarist Corey Glover. Tate, a Rolling Stone contributor, wrote on Facebook about Dr. Know’s hospitalization on Sunday night. He said he learned… Source: Music News

By the fall of 1981 it was pretty clear that the Ramones were never going to make it big. They’d been gigging relentlessly since forming in 1974 and had recorded six widely-acclaimed albums, but they’d never had a song go higher on the Hot 100 than Number 66 and were… Source: Music News

Wednesday marks a milestone for Little Big Town. The vocal quartet heads into this year’s CMA Awards with five nominations — more than any other act except Eric Church, who matches them with five nods of his own. “I’ve secretly always wanted to be most nominated,” bandmate Kimberly Schlapman confides to Rolling… Source: Music […]

Big Boi and Phantogram’s aptly dubbed Big Grams project have released a wildly vibrant clip for “Fell in the Sun,” a track off their self-titled debut EP. The simple clip finds Big Boi and Phantogram’s Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter dancing and performing the horn-laded cut amidst a constantly changing blur of… Source: Music […]

For about a decade, comedian Harry Shearer and his wife, singer Judith Owen, have staged yearly Christmas pageants for charity that they’ve dubbed Christmas Without Tears. This year, the actor — best known for his many roles on The Simpsons and for getting stuck in a pod in This Is Spinal… Source: Music News

Since its August release, Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A biopic chronicling the rise and fall of the gangsta rap firebrands, has become the highest-grossing music biopic in history. Though the rags-to-riches story detailed the rise of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E, it also depicted Jerry Heller, the group’s first manager and longtime nemesis, as the villain, extending a… Source: Music News