Music Country

A self-taught songwriter, frontman, label head and festival promoter, Drew Holcomb has spent much of the past decade on the road, building a grassroots following for his folk-rock band, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors. “It’s been, ‘Hustle, hustle, hustle,’” he says, talking to podcast host Chris Shiflett about his work …

Sugarland will release their first new studio album in eight years on June 8th. Titled Bigger, the LP reunites core members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, who took a five-year hiatus after concluding their last tour in 2012. Bigger includes 11 new songs, 10 of them written by Nettles and …

The new music video for Dierks Bentley‘s fist-pumping anthem “Woman, Amen” celebrates the bond between a real-life mother and daughter from Nashville, Jennifer and Sydnee Floyd. At the beginning of the video, Jennifer recounts her experiences as a mother, from Sydnee’s difficulties at birth to her issues with bullying that …

Thomas Rhett was doing his best to keep a handle on his two young daughters and their dogs traveling with him on his tour bus when country’s most pop-forward male artist connected with Rolling Stone Country from the road on Friday. The night before, Rhett kicked off his headlining Life …

Kenny Roby moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1991 with the Lubricators, a precocious punk band he joined as a high-schooler in Clemson, South Carolina. They opened for Jane’s Addiction, the Circle Jerks and Danzig and then broke up shortly after their northern migration. Post-split, Roby got his hands on …

For the second year in a row, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is shining a light on the state of country music with a special exhibit that focuses on how the genre is building bridges across stylistic divides. It’s an ambitious undertaking, since what exactly defines “country …

Chris Young‘s growing reputation as one of country’s most reliable hitmakers isn’t without merit. Since 2009, the Tennessee native has employed his smooth, nimble baritone and flair for romantic drama on a total of 10 Number One songs between the Billboard and Mediabase country airplay charts, the most recent of …

Charley Crockett may have grown up on the Gulf Coast of Texas, but his first appearance on the eclectic Americana-at-sea Cayamo Cruise earlier this month left him with a serious set of sea legs. To restore his equilibrium, he took a trip to the Mississippi Delta and the city of …

One night before a gunman opened fire and killed 58 at the Route 91 Harvest festival on October 1st, Maren Morris played her own set, filling the Las Vegas Strip with the sounds of a country singer who’s never been afraid to challenge her genre’s boundaries. On Sunday, during a …

After a few days of teasing the track online, EDM artist Zedd has released his new collaboration with Maren Morris and electronic duo Grey, “The Middle.” The song is an infectious earworm that finds Morris straying from her country roots. A synth-heavy verse gives way to a Nineties R&B-indebted, vocoder-driven …