This year’s Stagecoach Festival was a love letter to country music’s past and a nod to its wide-open future. While the festival — the genre’s largest, most rollicking reunion that takes place in California’s low desert the week after Coachella — was sparse on guest appearances (no Axl Rose, this …
Read More »Lainey Wilson, Hardy Lead 2023 ACM Awards Nominations
Lainey Wilson and Hardy were the most nominated country artists when the nominees for the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards were announced Thursday morning. The pair are nominated together for their collab “Wait in the Truck” for Song of the Year, Visual Media of the Year, and Music Event …
Read More »CMT Music Awards 2023: The Complete Winners List
Musicians and fans from across the country came together on Sunday for the 2023 CMT Music Awards. Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown hosted the ceremony and Noah Schnapp of Stranger Things announced the first winner — Hardy’s “Wait in the Truck” featuring Lainey Wilson, for Collaborative Video of the Year. …
Read More »The 2023 CMT Music Awards Did Some Time Traveling
You could be forgiven for tuning in to Sunday night’s CMT Music Awards in Austin, Texas, and having the sensation that you’d stepped through a time portal into a mid-1990s VMAs or a mid-2000s CMAs, or a smoked-out arena in 1970s Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Because the annual fan-voted awards show, now …
Read More »2023 CMT Music Awards: How to Watch, Who's Nominated, Who's Performing
The CMT Music Awards is saddling up and heading west this year to that beloved musical and cultural mecca of Austin, Texas. But while the scenery may be different, much will remain the same: two of the CMT Music Awards‘ previous hosts will be leading the proceedings, the performance lineup …
Read More »Lukas Nelson and Lainey Wilson Say Seize the Night on New Duet 'More Than Friends'
Lukas Nelson and Lainey Wilson lobby for a night with benefits (and zero regrets) in their spunky new duet “More Than Friends.” It’s a bright, rollicking country-rock anthem and announces Nelson’s new album, Sticks and Stones, the follow-up to Nelson’s A Few Stars Apart. “Let’s pretend we’re more than friends …
Read More »Lainey Wilson Leads 2023 CMT Music Awards Nominations
Nominations for the 2023 CMT Music Awards were announced Wednesday morning and Lainey Wilson wound up with the most of her contemporaries. The “Heart Like a Truck” singer picked up four nods for the fan-voted event, which is set to air live from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on …
Read More »Hardy Is a Country Singer Who Just Wants to Rock the F-k Out
Michael Hardy had been on his bus writing songs with his frequent collaborators Brett Tyler and Jordan Schmidt when he pressed play on a mix of his new album. They were floored by the heavy-rock influences coming out of the speakers and wanted to write something along those lines. “I …
Read More »Hardy and Lainey Wilson Sing Harrowing 'Wait in the Truck' at 2022 CMAs
Hardy and Lainey Wilson brought a harrowing tale of domestic violence and vigilante justice to the CMA Awards stage with their rendition of “Wait in the Truck,” currently just outside the Top 25 on country radio. Wilson, the top nominee at the 2022 CMA Awards, plays the woman in distress …
Read More »Country Music Loves to Talk About Honoring Its Past. The 2022 CMA Awards Actually Did It
The 2022 CMA Awards were a mostly predictable affair with a few pleasant little surprises — and we’re so grateful for it. Between the maelstrom known as Ye, the upending of the already chaotic Twitter, and the high stakes of the midterms, there’s enough wacky shit afoot without having to …
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