Kelsea Ballerini took the stage at the 2023 CMA Awards to perform her vulnerable breakup song “Leave Me Again.” With just her voice and her acoustic guitar, she delivered one of the highlight performances of the evening, an understated gem that further proved Ballerini is gliding into her superstar era. …

Presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, called Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “comedian in cargo pants” and a “Nazi” during the NBC News Republican debate Wednesday. Zelensky, who is Jewish, has expressed his solidarity with Israel amid its war in Gaza and has reportedly sent an official request to the Israeli Prime …

Lainey Wilson delivered a triumphant performance of “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” during Wednesday night’s CMA Awards in Nashville. A track off her Album of the Year-contending Bell Bottom Country, the cinematic song was written by Wilson with Trannie Anderson and Paul Sikes and delivers a message of perseverance and freedom …

Chris Stapleton might be having the busiest week in Nashville. Just two days before the release of his fifth album, Higher, the 45-year-old singer performed “White Horse,” the album’s storming lead single, on this year’s CMA Awards. Backed by his core band, including wife Morgan Stapleton on vocals, and with …

Morgan Wallen and Eric Church’s friendship is well-documented, so it shouldn’t have been too much of a shock when the elder statesman, who’s been a mentor of sorts to Wallen, joined him for what was billed as a performance with a “surprise guest” at the 2023 CMA Awards. Together, the …

THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. It was a night of one-hit wonders during the seventh episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer Season 10, where a final batch of contestants sang and twirled onstage as exaggerated table ornaments and savory desserts. In The …

The verdict at this year’s CMA Awards is clear: The most important song and single of the year was first released 35 years ago. Luke Combs‘ version of “Fast Car,” which reached Number Two on the Hot 100 this summer and became one of the unlikely blockbuster hits in any …

Grainy video allegedly showing rapper A$AP Rocky firing a gun at his former friend A$AP Relli on a Hollywood street corner two years ago was made public for the first time Wednesday inside a Los Angeles courtroom. Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, sat at a defense table and watched the clip …

Jelly Roll is the year’s breakout country star, a larger-than-life character with so much heat right now that the producers of the CMA Awards chose him to open the show. The face-tattooed singer-rapper from Antioch, Tennessee, sang a boisterous “Need a Favor” with help from an unannounced guest: Wynonna Judd. …

The 160,000-member Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has officially reached a tentative agreement with the movie studios and streaming services represented by the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers (AMPTP), effectively ending the months-long Hollywood actors strike. The union approved the agreement …