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“Don’t tell me your position, don’t need no sympathy,” California singer-songwriter Tré Burt sings in his piercing new folk polemic. “Your bleeding heart’s complicit if you ain’t in the street.” That song is “Under the Devil’s Knee,” a haunting folk-roots number that mourns the lives of George Floyd, Eric Garner, …

U.K. soul singer Yola performed Nina Simone‘s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” onstage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium for a Tuesday night appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Filmed in the empty venue, with its recognizable stained-glass windows illuminated behind her, Yola and her band delivered an empowering, joyful …

“Everything I do is a temporary fix,” Maggie Rose laments in her new song “20/20,” written and recorded in the early days of the quarantine. Beginning as a gentle solo piano ballad, “20/20” transitions into a full-band swoon, with the Nashville soul singer finding a glimmer of hope in a …

Life is a blink. One minute you’re in the backseat of your parents’ car, being driven for ice cream, and the next you’re taking care of your folks, ushering them into the car to take them to some appointment or another. That’s the message of Brett Eldredge‘s music video for …

Brittany Howard, Nathaniel Rateliff and Cold War Kids will headline a two-day online concert in support of musicians affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Presented by Jack Daniel’s, the Crash the Couch virtual music festival will stream for free on the whiskey brand’s YouTube channel on Friday, August 14th, and Saturday, …

Front Country combine their acoustic instrumental prowess with a message to make an impassioned rock & roll anthem in “Amerikan Dream,” the group’s latest release from an upcoming third album. Titled Impossible World, it’s the band’s first album recorded in Nashville since the trio of Melody Walker, Adam Roszkiewicz andJacob …

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. Elizabeth Cook, “Bones” The Americana …

While many Independence Day celebrations in the United States are being canceled or drastically slimmed down this year, iHeartMedia is going to the homes of several country performers for a new television special. The iHeartCountry 4th of July BBQ airs Friday, July 3rd at 8 p.m. ET on the CW …

A group of Texas country acts, including Eli Young Band and Pat Green, are set to launch a new series of drive-in concerts at the Globe Life Field stadium — home of the Texas Rangers — outside Dallas in early June. The shows, dubbed Concert in Your Car, aim to …

Collaboration is at the very heart of Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen‘s partnership under the “Hold My Beer” name, refined over 15 years or so of live performances and expertly distilled on the friendly duo’s 2015 debut album. But there’s an entirely new type of collaboration on the Texas singer-songwriters’ …