Ski-masked singer RMR, a student of all pop genres who hates to contain himself to only one of them, broke the internet in February 2020 with “Rascal.” The track, and accompanying video full of firearms and blunt smoke, is RMR’s reimagination of “Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts, as …
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Pilgrimage Festival, the eclectically curated and decidedly chill music gathering held south of Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee, has announced the lineup for 2019. Foo Fighters, the Killers and Keith Urban top the bill, with a diverse undercard touching on genres ranging from soul and country to alt-rock and folk. Leon …
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Headlining sets by Chris Stapleton, Lady Antebellum and Keith Urban, plus a vast range of impressive up-and-coming talent, highlighted the seventh annual Country to Country (C2C), Europe’s biggest country music festival, this weekend. Held over three days, the concerts took place at the 3Arena Dublin, Ireland; SSE Hydro in Glasgow, …
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The Fourth of July is a crucial part of country music’s DNA, providing the setting for hundreds of all-American songs — from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” to Toby Keith’s “American Soldier” — that bleed red, white and blue. It’s no surprise, then, that many of the genre’s icons …
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Post Malone set a new record for most streams in a week and established the best-selling week of 2018 as the rapper’s Beerbongs & Bentleys opened atop the Billboard 200. The album opened with 461,000 total copies in its first week of availability, with the majority of that total the …
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Since the birth of country music more than a century ago, the genre has relied on songs that tell stories and allow listeners to share experiences relating to those stories. As technology has advanced, the discovery of new music has become more challenging, although the accessibility of those new songs …
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