Just before New Year’s, Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem made a decision to cancel the first two weeks of his solo theater and club tour, which had initially been scheduled to start Jan. 11. Given the unknowns of Omicron, it seemed to make sense. Besides, he says, “I thought …
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Dawn Richard, Second Line R&B artist Dawn Richard has taken a winding path through her nearly 20-year career. Now, she finds herself on the North Carolina indie-rock label Merge with her sixth LP,Second Line. It may be an unexpected place for her, but the record feels like a culmination of …
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Eric Church announced his plans for the three-album release Heart & Soul last week. On Friday, he debuted the lead-off track from Heart, a windows-down love song titled “Heart on Fire.” Written solo by Church, “Heart on Fire” is more FM classic rock than Nashville country, with hints of Lonesome …
Read More »Eric Church's CRS Keynote Q&A: 5 Things We Learned
“We all are in this room because music touched us in some way,” Eric Church told a crowd of radio programmers gathered for a Q&A with radio personality Lon Helton during Country Radio Seminar in Nashville on Thursday, in a conversation called “Chasing Creativity.” In addition to letting slip some …
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