It’s a tale as old as time: Bigger isn’t necessarily better. After two years of graceful, measured, and intimate pandemic-era awards shows in Nashville, the Academy of Country Music Awards returned to their usual home of Las Vegas and doubled down on the huge, choosing the cavernous Allegiant Stadium to …
Read More »Eric Church Is Releasing an Album Titled '&.' Or Is It 'And'?
Ed Sheeran has been titling his albums with mathematical signs sincehis 2011 debut, +, and artists across genres have used question marks, exclamation points, and even parentheses as album titles over the years. Enter Eric Church, who’s taking a page out of the punctuation book for at least part of …
Read More »Tanya Tucker Leads 2020 Country Grammy Nominees
Nominees for the 62nd Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday morning, with Tanya Tucker leading among country performers and Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, and Dan + Shay all picking up multiple nominations in the country categories. Tucker’s 2019 album While I’m Livin’ was a big favorite for voters, earning the singer …
Read More »See Eric Church, Bruce Springsteen Perform Together for the First Time
In 2012, Eric Church scored a Number One country hit with his nostalgic anthem “Springsteen.” On Monday night in New York City, Church joined the inspiration for his song —Bruce Springsteen himself — onstage for the first time to perform Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. track “Working on the Highway.” …
Read More »The Greatest Tours of 2017
Tom Petty,40th Anniversary TourPetty billed this run of dates with the Heartbreakers as his last “big one.” They ended up serving as his grand farewell before his October 2nd death – a two-hour show mixing beloved hits with lesser-known gems like “Crawling Back to You” and “Forgotten Man,” wrapping on …
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