This past weekend, Cross Canadian Ragweed capped the final Boys From Oklahoma show of their 2025 reunion in front of 40,000 sweaty fans inside McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas, with frontman Cody Canada promising, “We will see you guys next year.” Days later, the Red Dirt torchbearers are making good …
Read More »A Toast to Taylor and Travis: This Love Changed the Prophecy
Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? Today the world salutes the love story of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who announced their engagement on social media Tuesday, with the wittiest wedding announcement in pop history: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” In the photos, Travis …
Read More »Daniel Donato Channels Gram Parsons, Guitar Greats on 'Horizons' Album
For Daniel Donato, Horizons is more than just the title of his latest album. It’s also the location where the guitar wizard and his unique brand of “cosmic country” currently reside —right on the edge of the earth. “It’s where any one person is standing in their life,where the land …
Read More »How Spike Lee's Musical Instincts Helped Shape His New Film 'Highest 2 Lowest'
Spike Lee’s brilliance as a movie director has never been in question. For decades, moviegoers have come to appreciate his eye for artsy, captivating visuals, such as the opening montage of his latest film, Highest 2 Lowest, which begins with the magnificence of a Brooklyn morning. Lee’s sense for music …
Read More »Here's Why Spoon Just Surprise-Released Two Great New Songs
Indie-rock heroes Spoon are back with two new songs. The Austin, Texas, band just surprise-released “Chateau Blues” and “Guess I’m Fallin’ In Love,” quintessential examples of the kind of sharp guitar bangers the band has been doing well for decades. It’s the first new music they’ve put out since their …
Read More »A Recording of Jerry Garcia's Final Show Has Never Been Released. Should It?
In the spring of 1997, Deadheads tuning in to The Grateful Dead Hour, the nationally syndicated radio show, heard a rare if disconcerting treat. Over two installments, host and Dead historian David Gans played the complete tape of Jerry Garcia’s last show with the band from two years before, at …
Read More »How Geese Pushed Themselves to New Heights
T he members of Geese are sitting around a hibachi grill at a Brooklyn restaurant, talking about the time they lost an entire day in the studio listening to handclaps. Deep into the making of their new album, Getting Killed, they thought it’d be a fine idea to incorporate some …
Read More »This Hawaiian Singer Is Finding His Lane in Country
“Everything that I represent has to do with the culture and the lifestyle of Hawaii,” Glenn Awong says. “Bringing it out here is really easy for me. I’m just being me.” Awong is best known as Maoli, the performing moniker for the Maui native who is, by most metrics, one …
Read More »Gavin Adcock vs. Charley Crockett: Everything That's Happened in Country Feud
Up until recently, many country fans probably didn’t know the name Gavin Adcock. Then he started a bona fide country music feud with Charley Crockett. In August, Crockett, a cowboy singer from San Benito, Texas, addressed country fans on Instagram in a lengthy post that focused on country music’s favorite …
Read More »Turbo Has Produced Hits for Gunna and Lil Baby. Now, He's Ready to Explore New Frequencies
There are a handful of hip-hop producers you can argue have served as architects for the sound of modern rap. Turbo, sometimes known as Turbo the Great, would undoubtedly be on the Mount Rushmore of present-day rap hitmakers.With production credits on some of this generation’s biggest hits — Gunna‘s “Drip …
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