MUSIC HEADLINES
Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith Partnership Cooling on Warming Ad
The San Jose Mercury News has reported that the Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith have canceled plans to appear together in a television ad speaking out against global warming. ...Read More
Dr. Phil Reaches Out to Mindy McCready
TMZ reported that Mindy McCready had a dramatic episode late last week after getting dumped by her boyfriend. She apparently then downed a bottle of vodka and pills and collapsed while ...Read More
Taylor Swift Acknowledges Rascal Flatts for Jumpstart
Taylor Swift's star has been rising higher and higher this year as she continues to dominate the charts. However, she hasn't forgotten who helped give her a headstart in the music biz. The young starlet ...Read More
Big & Rich Take Break from Touring
Though Big & Rich have made their presence felt on the concert circuit this year, the duo will not be playing any more shows for the rest of 2008. The group announced earlier this year ...Read More
Alan Jackson Sells 50 Millionth Album
Alan Jackson has achieved a major milestone in his career, as it was announced yesterday that he had surpassed the 50-million mark for album sales. His debut album, Here in the Real World, was ...Read More
Keith Urban to Play Fashion Rocks Show
Keith Urban will appear at the all-star Fashion Rocks concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Sept. 5. The show will air on CBS on Sept. 9. Other stars scheduled to perform include ...Read More
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Nominated for UK Mercury Prize
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' critically acclaimed Raising Sand is one of 12 albums that has been nominated for the Mercury Prize. The annual award is determined ...Read More
Sugarland Keeping Busy
Sugarland had a super tuesday all their own, as they performed on Good Morning America and The View earlier today (July 22). A deluxe version of their third album ...Read More
Folk Musician Artie Traum Dead at 65
Folksinger/guitarist Artie Traum succumbed to cancer at age 65 on Sunday afternoon (July 20) at his home in Woodstock, NY. Along with his brother Happy, Traum recorded ...Read More
ABC to Air CMA Awards Nov. 12
This year's CMA Awards will take place at the Sommet Center in downtown Nashville on Nov. 12 and will be broadcast live on ABC. Last year's program was the third-highest rated awards show ...Read More
Hank Cochran Undergoes Cancer Surgery
Hank Cochran, the legendary singer and songwriter whose credits include Eddy Arnold's "Make the World Go Away" and Ronnie Milsap's "Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me," is recovering at a Nashville hospital ...Read More
Julianne Hough Up For an Emmy
Julianne Hough has been nominated for an Emmy for outstanding choreography after her successful turn on Dancing With the Stars. The nominees for the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced ...Read More
CMA Music Festival Special Coming to ABC
ABC will air a two-hour special titled CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock on Sept. 8. The special will be filmed in Nashville and hosted by Taylor Swift, Kellie Pickler and Julianne Hough ...Read More
Jack Ingram to Have Say on Next Country Star
You might instead call him Jack-of-all-trades. Jack Ingram, who is already well known for being an outstanding singer, songwriter, and winner of the 2008 Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist award ...Read More
Levon Helm, Joan Baez to Appear at Americana Festival
Levon Helm and Joan Baez are scheduled to appear at the Americana Festival and Conference in Nashville this September. Helm will perform a full concert at the Ryman Auditorium ...Read More
Kenny Chesney Makes White House Visit
Kenny Chesney visited with President George W. Bush and Baseball Hall of Fame member Frank Robinson on Wednesday afternoon (July 16), during the first-ever White House Tee Ball All-Star Game ...Read More
Jeff Bridges to Star in New CMT Film
CMT Films will co-produce a new film starring Jeff Bridges as a downtrodden, alcoholic country singer. Crazy Heart, which is written and directed by Scott Cooper, will also feature ...Read More
Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman Reject Baby Pic Offers
Parents Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban have reportedly turned down several multi-million dollar offers from publications for pictures of newborn daughter Sunday Rose. ...Read More
Jessica Simpson Gets Country Assist from Dolly Parton
Jessica Simpson's first country album, entitled Do You Know?, will be released on September 9th on Columbia Nashville. The album was recorded with producers ...Read More
Shania Twain Finds Comfort in Son, Music
Since her split from hubby Mutt Lang two months ago, Shania Twain has found strength in the two things that mean the most to her: her 6-year-old son, Eja D'Angelo, and her music. ...Read More
Kellie Pickler Uplifts Women on New Single
Kellie Pickler's latest single offers an affirmative message to women. "Your worth ain't on a price tag/It comes from within." These lyrics, from her song, "Don't You Know You're Beautiful," address ...Read More
Larry the Cable Guy Gets Christmas Special
Larry the Cable Guy will star in an upcoming holiday special for CMT, while comedian Tom Arnold will host a second season of CMT's My Big Redneck Wedding. ...Read More
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman Plan Baptism
Keith Urban and wife Nicole Kidman will have their infant daughter, Sunday Rose, baptized during a Catholic christening ceremony in Sydney, Australia, reports The Daily Telegraph in Sydney. ...Read More
Stolen George Jones Guitar Returned
George Jones was recenlty reacquainted with a long lost old friend. Just last month, a guitar was returned to him that was stolen over 40 years ago. However, a wrist injury that prevented ...Read More
Joe Nichols Keeps Grand Ole Opry in Forefront
Joe Nichols made his debut in 2002 with "The Impossible," and has since accomplished a great deal, although nothing yet that makes him feel as though he's truly ...Read More
Reca McEntire Calls Upon Former REBA Friends for Video
Reba McEntire enlisted the help of friends Joanna Garcia and Steve Howey to act in her latest music video for "Every Other Weekend," which began airing this week. ...Read More
Rare Elvis Special Comes to CMT, Wal-Mart
CMT will air Elvis: Viva Las Vegas, a new, two-hour TV special on Aug. 11. Additionally, the DVD and Blu-ray disc of the special will be available for purchase exclusively at ...Read More
Oak Ridge Boys Join Harmony Elite
During their unique career, the Oak Ridge Boys have won Grammy Awards and performed for world leaders and even scored at the top of the pop charts. ...Read More
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Purchase Malibu Home
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are now neighbors to such names as Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker. The country couple, whose primary residence is in Oklahoma ...Read More
Eddie Montgomery Recalls Upbringing
Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry is feeling nostalgic as the duo releases its latest album, Back When I Knew It All. ...Read More
Chesney Fans Old Flame
Kenny Chesney is reportedly giving love another chance with a former girlfriend. And while the country star said that he is considering settling down in the near future, any rumored marriage plans were definitely premature. ...Read More
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Welcome a Baby Girl
Nicole Kidman and her husband, Keith Urban, have welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, born Monday morning in Nashville, PEOPLE has confirmed. ...Read More
Carrie Underwood on American Experience
For all of Carrie Underwood's success, much of it must be attributed to the red, white & blue. After all, she found fame on the show "American Idol," and she also scored a major ...Read More
Kenny Chesney Gets XM Channel
Kenny Chesney will be getting his own channel on XM Satellite Radio from July 26 through Oct. 25. Featured on the station, called No Shoes Radio, will be Chesney's music, as well as ...Read More
Craig Morgan on American Pride
During his 10 years of active duty in the Army, Craig Morgan engaged in Operation Just Cause, and descended with his compatriots on Panama when U.S. troops landed there ...Read More
Toby Keith, Trace Adkins and Jack Ingram Reflect on America
Though the Fourth of July is a time for Americans of all stripes to celebrate their patriotism and love of the red, white and blue, some of country music's biggest names are concerned that ...Read More
Home Video Spurs Sugarland's Latest Hit
Customarily, the video is shot after a song gets recorded and released, but in Sugarland's latest hit, "All I Want To Do," the opposite has been the case. The song was written and centered around ...Read More
Inductees to Musicians Hall of Fame Announced
The second class of inductees to the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum were announced on Tuesday morning (July 1) in Nashville. Booker T. and the MGs, the Memphis Horns ...Read More
Fans Can Find Platinum Tickets in New Sugarland Album
No, this isn't Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, but Sugarland is adding platinum tickets to five copies of the deluxe fan edition of their new album, Love on the Inside. ...Read More
Waylon Jennings' Former Band Step Out On Their Own
The former members of Waylon Jennings' touring band have formed a tribute band called Waymore's Outlaws, with singer Tommy Townsend, bass player/tour manager ...Read More
Ejected Tim McGraw Fan Holds No Grudge
Even after Tim McGraw decided to play security guard at a show last week at a Auburn, Wash. concert, the ejected fan, a union glazer named Marcus Nirschl, still says he'll continue to support ...Read More
Dierks Bentley Delivers to Fans
Not too long ago, Dierks Bentley spent most of his time in the audience rather than on the stage. Even though things have changed, he still remembers what it was like getting amped up ...Read More
Idol Alum Kristy Lee Cook Gets Contract
Kristy Lee Cook, better known as a finalist from American Idol's seventh season, has inked a deal with 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville, a label within the Sony BMG Nashville ...Read More
Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus Sing at Memorial Festival
Billy Ray and daughter Miley Cyrus treated fans to a performance at a Nashville-area skate festival on Sunday (June 29) to honor Alex LaVasseur, the late son of ...Read More
Brooks & Dunn To Receive Star on Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced last year that Brooks & Dunn would receive a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...Read More
Dierks Bentley Takes on Fans in Xbox 360's Game With Fame
Dierks Bentley recently participated in the Xbox 360 promotion, Game With Fame, where he battled in the video game Halo 3 online ...Read More
Miley Cyrus Opens Up About Controversial Photo Shoot
Miley Cyrus says she is still getting over her topless Vanity Fair photo scandal. The child star of Disney's Hannah Montana franchise caused controversy after posing topless ...Read More
Mindy McCready Arrested After Violating Probation
Mindy McCready is currently free on $5,000 bond after being arrested for violating her probation. McCready's arrest came after she reportedly overstated the number of hours ...Read More
Alabama's Randy Owen to Release Memoir
Randy Owen, lead vocalist of Alabama, is writing his autobiography, Born Country, to be released in bookstores on Nov. 11, on the same date that his solo album, One on One, is released. ...Read More
Sara Evans Tries Her Luck On Million Dollar Password
Sara Evans will appear as a celebrity contestant on the game show Million Dollar Password, hosted by Regis Philbin. The episode, which will air ...Read More
Toby Keith Earns Appreciation From Capitol Hill
Toby Keith's strong support for the military is reflected in his music, as in "American Soldier" and "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)," so it is a fitting tribute that ...Read More
Craig Morgan, Country Artist Turned Film Reviewer
Though most artists are accustomed to hearing the often harsh words of critics and reviews after releasing a labor of love, Craig Morgan is taking it upon himself to dish out the dirt ...Read More
John Michael Montgomery Concludes Rehab Stint
John Michael Montgomery has completed a 28-day stay in rehab and is back on the road, though presumably with the anxiety attacks and sleep disorder that ...Read More
Faith Hill in Increasingly Crowded Company
Though Faith Hill has been one of country music's top female vocalists for years, she still feels like she's got something to prove. Considering the influx of new female stars ...Read More
Tim McGraw Ejects Audience Member During Washington Concert Incident
Tim McGraw assisted members of his stage crew eject a fan from his concert in Auburn, Wash. on Tuesday night (June 24) after seeing the man assault a woman ...Read More
Rissi Palmer Signs with IMG Models
Country singer Rissi Palmer has struck a deal with IMG Models, which represents such beauties as Gisele Bundchen, Selma Blair ...Read More
New York Welcomes Back CMA Songwriters Series
The CMA Songwriters series returns to New York City with a concert at Joe's Pub on July 17. Featured names include Dave Berg ...Read More
Trace Adkins to Chair Food Allergy Walk
Trace Adkins has been named the national honorary chair of the 2008 Walk for Food Allergy event, a charity fundraiser which will take place in 26 cities this fall ...Read More
Jessica Simpson to Appear on The View
Jessica Simpson will join ABC's The View on Wednesday (June 25) to discuss her move to country music. ...Read More
Ricky Skaggs Turns Country Songs to Bluegrass
Ricky Skaggs is hoping his best-known country hits will translate to bluegrass -- or at least Cracker Barrel is. Skaggs has recorded bluegrass versions of the songs for The High Notes ...Read More
Willie Nelson Brings Farm Aid Relief to Iowa
Willie Nelson has contributed much more to the world than just his legendary music. When, fifteen years ago, he staged a Farm Aid concert in Iowa ...Read More
Keith Promotes New Film Beer for My Horses
When asked about his upcoming movie, Beer for My Horses, Toby Keith described the picture as "a dream come true." ...Read More
Advertisement
