There’s aren’t many people who have advocated for Texas as artfully as Richard Linklater. From Dazed and Confused to Boyhood to Everybody Wants Some!!, his films have portrayed life in the state with the delicate touch of someone who truly understands it. Despite his success, he favors Austin over Hollywood, …

Danish soul-pop band Lukas Graham announced a headlining U.S. tour for early 2019. The 12-date trek launches February 22nd in Portland, Oregon and concludes March 15th in New York, New York. The jaunt will promote the trio’s upcoming third LP, 3, out October 26th. Fans who pre-order the album on …

As fly-on-the-wall rock-doc experiences go, there are few more thrilling than the first 10 minutes of Jean-Luc Godard‘s 1968 film Sympathy for the Devil. After the opening credits silently roll, we’re immediately transported to London’s Olympic Studios in the June of 1968, where the Rolling Stones are recording what will …

Lauren Alaina invokes the biggest stars of the decade in which she was born in her latest single, “Ladies in the ’90s.” The song is the Georgia native’s first new music since releasing 2017’s Road Less Traveled, which included the Number One title track. “I was born in ’94, daddy …

Imagine you’re hanging out with someone’s sweet old grandmother, the kind of person who will ask if you’ve got a sweater in case it gets cold, and how are things at school, and would you like a slice of pie or some more peach iced tea? Now picture that same …

On October 17th, the 2018 CMT Artists of the Year telecast will, for the first time in its history, feature an all-women cast of honorees. In addition, all of the guest performers will also be women. Three-time CMT Artist of the Year Carrie Underwood will take the stage with her …

Peggy Sue Gerron, the woman who inspired Buddy Holly‘s 1957 hit song “Peggy Sue,” died Monday at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports. She was 78. Gerron met Holly in Lubbock in the mid-Fifties when he was a budding musician and she was still a …

For the latest episode of Dwight Yoakam and the Bakersfield Beat on SiriusXM, the Grammy winner sat down for a jam session with guest Lukas Nelson for a joyous cover of Willie Nelson’s 1971 classic “Me and Paul.” Written about the elder Nelson’s mishaps with his drummer Paul English, “Me …

Country radio will mark the one-year anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre with a moment of silence on Monday, October 1st. In addition, the lights of the hotel and casino signs on the Las Vegas Strip will go dark on Monday evening at 10:01 p.m./PT. Fifty-eight people were …

The first thing Jon Batiste does when he wakes up each morning is write. It’s a exercise called Morning Pages, and Batiste has been doing it every day for several months now: three pages of handwritten free-writing to clear his mind and help open himself up to creativity before he …