Country songs about dads watching their daughters getting married and —as Hank Hill once put it —“feeling emotions” constitute a mini-genre at this point, from Heartland’s “I Loved Her First” to Alan Jackson‘s “You’ll Always Be My Baby.” Country newcomer Post Malone became the latest contributor to that micro-canon this …
Read More »Darius Rucker Looks Back: 'When You're the Nice Guys, People Want to Knock You Down'
Sometime in 1986, Darius Rucker was singing in his dorm shower at the University of South Carolina when another kid on the floor overheard him. Mark Bryan grabbed his guitar and asked Rucker to jam in his room, leaving the door open. Within minutes, they were drawing their first crowd. …
Read More »On Zach Bryan's 'The Great American Bar Scene,' the Past Is Tangled, the Future Is Scary, and Right Now Is Miller Time
In barely five years, Zach Bryan has transformed from cult-roots road warrior (2020’sElisabeth)to fast-rising country-adjacent renegade (2022’sAmerican Heartbreak)to Number One hitmaker and voice-of-a-Gen-Z-generation storyteller (2023’s Zach Bryan). The men and women (mostly men) in his songs spend their twenties drinking their way through the alienating cities they’ve fled to from …
Read More »Hootie Babylon! Darius Rucker Tells All
Which Nineties band once dropped $32,000 to buy a dealer’s entire supply of Ecstasy at once? The answer would’ve been hard to guess at the height of their fame, but the culprits were the seemingly clean-cut dudes in Hootie and the Blowfish —who, as frontman Darius Rucker reveals in his …
Read More »Morgan Wallen's Nashville Bar Will Finally Open After Initial Delay
Morgan Wallen‘s This Bar will officially open this Saturday. On Friday, TC Restaurant Group announced that the bar, originally set to debut Memorial Day weekend, will open its doors to the public in time for next week’s CMA Fest. “We’re thrilled to welcome our first guests on Saturday, June 1, …
Read More »Morgan Wallen's Nashville Bar Postpones Memorial Day Weekend Opening at Last Minute
The opening of Morgan Wallen’s new Nashville bar and restaurant, slated for Memorial Day weekend, has been postponed at the last minute. Days after a city council denied neon signage to Morgan Wallen’s This Bar — with local politicians citing the country star’s chair-throwing incident and past use of racial …
Read More »City Council Denies Morgan Wallen's Nashville Bar Sign, Citing Controversies
Morgan Wallen’s questionable behavior in recent years caught up to him Tuesday when a Nashville council voted overwhelmingly to deny a 20-foot sign bearing his name in the city’s famed Lower Broadway entertainment district. The sign was proposed to hang from the bar over the sidewalk below; the venue already …
Read More »Morgan Wallen and Post Malone Skyrocket to Number One With 'I Had Some Help'
Morgan Wallen and Post Malone‘s collaboration “I Had Some Help” debuted at Number One on the Hot 100, Billboard announced on Tuesday, opening as one of the biggest debuts for a single this year. The single reps Malone’s second Number One of the year so far, following his collaboration with …
Read More »Post Malone 'Had Some Help' From Morgan Wallen on New Country Single
Post Malone kickstarts his country era with new single “I Had Some Help.” He debuted the song, which features Morgan Wallen, live at Stagecoach last month. Post Malone and Wallen’s inevitable summer hit is a big country-pop tune, in the vein of many of Wallen’s own singles. The song is …
Read More »Morgan Wallen's Chair-Throwing Case Will Continue in August
Morgan Wallen is expected to appear in court when his chair-throwing case picks back up in August (unless it’s settled before then). As People reports, Wallen’s attorney, Worrick Robinson, appeared on the musician’s behalf at a hearing in Nashville on Friday, May 3. The court had waived Wallen’s right to …
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