Mainstream country music singers will once again gather under the iHeartMedia banner when the broadcasting giant stages its annual iHeartCountry Festival this spring in Austin. Set for May 4 at the Moody Center in the Texas capital, the festival features a lineup of radio mainstays and those on the uptick. …
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Seven small towns in the U.S. will welcome Jason Aldean and Kid Rock next year when the polarizing singers co-headline the Rock the Country Tour. The festival tour will stick mainly to the South, spending two nights at each stop in Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Missouri, Kentucky, and Georgia. …
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In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Jason Aldean was an open book about why he has “nothing but good things to say” about Donald Trump and why he decided against receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. But he was also a decidedly closed book — one with missing pages …
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Jason Aldean said that if he had the chance to do it all over again with “Try That in a Small Town,” he would do pretty much everything the same — except film the video in front of a courthouse where a lynching took place in 1927. In an interview …
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Jason Aldean defended his controversial song and music video “Try That in a Small Town” this week. “If you’ve got common sense, you can look at the video and see, I’m not sayin’ anything that’s not true,” the singer, who has sparked many a controversy, claimed on the podcast Coop’s …
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Sugarcoating her opinion isn’t Maren Morris‘ style, and neither is biting her tongue. While teasing a new music video on Instagram, the country singer appeared to take aim at Jason Aldean and the small town of gun owners and potential racists he boasts about on the controversial single “Try That …
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Country music is this summer’s streaming powerhouse. That fact was all but cemented on Monday when “I Remember Everything,” Zach Bryan’s duet with Kacey Musgraves, became the fourth consecutive country song over the course of six weeks to hold the Number One slot on Billboard’s Hot 100. With more than …
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Over the last few years, the Gulf Coast Jam, a multi-day concert blowout held every spring in Panama City Beach, Florida, has become one of country music’s leading festivals, pulling in headliners like Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown, and Kenny Chesney. But recently, festival producer Rendy …
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Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” didn’t have significant radio play last week, nor the help of a major label. But it did have digital sales. A lot of sales. With the backing of conservative influencers like Matt Walsh, Dan Bongino, and Laura Ingraham, who championed the song as …
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The devoted culture warriors dedicated to taking Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” to the top of the charts appear to have already grown bored of the song as it plummeted from Number One to Number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week. Last week, the …
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