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Guy’s 2026 Smokehouse Cooking Demos (Goldenvoice) If you're planning your trip to Stagecoach, a crucial piece of information has just arrived: The set times for all stages are now available on the festival's website. Festival organizers also revealed one more thing they're cooking up: the return of Guy Fieri's Smokehouse for the seventh year in a row. Each day, several performers will join Guy and well-known pit masters for cooking demos. On April 24, […]

Drew Barrymore & Megan Moroney (Courtesy 'The Drew Barrymore Show') While Megan Moroney's still metaphorically floating around on Cloud 9 after the release of her new record, in real life she's pretty busy these days. The "Beautiful Things" hitmaker made her first appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Wednesday, tasting unusual flavors of ramen and bonding with Drew over post-breakup paybacks. She also reminisced about coming face to face with more […]

Lady A (Courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum) Lady A made what may turn out to be a rare 2026 concert appearance Wednesday night in Nashville.Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood played an exclusive show in the Country Music Hall of Fame's CMA Theater in front of an audience made up solely of museum members.Known as The Big Gig, the night is one of the perks […]

Luke Bryan (Disney/Larry McCormack) Luke Bryan's annual Crash My Playa fan getaway will continue for a 12th year in 2027, taking over Riviera Cancun, Mexico, Jan. 13-16. The announcement hit the Crash My Playa socials Thursday morning, along with a promotional video promising the usual four days of music during the all-inclusive weekend, complete "with the best fans in country music."Crash My Playa will return to Moon Palace Resort in 2027. […]

2026 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees announcement (CMA) We're about a week away from learning the identities of the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Marty Stuart will host the official announcement of the 2026 inductees March 20 from the Hall of Fame's rotunda.You'll be able to livestream this year's big reveal starting at 10 a.m. CT on the CMA's YouTube channel. The three new members will officially […]

Carly Pearce & Riley Green's "If I Don't Leave I'm Gonna Stay" (Blue Highway Records) Carly Pearce and Riley Green bring a simmering intensity to their vocals in the first preview of their duet, "If I Don't Leave I'm Gonna Stay," which officially drops Friday. "We're getting close to losing clothes, I should go/ Look at the time, it's getting late/ If I don't leave, I'm gonna stay," Carly sings as […]

Conner Smith's new album, Stories I've Never Told — Acoustic Tapes, will arrive on Friday, featuring six songs Conner wrote, as well as a cover of Zac Brown Band's "Free." He's currently working on more new music to arrive later this year.Clint Black's new exhibit, The Hard Way on Purpose, is set to open at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on April 22. Scheduled to run through […]

Vince Gill & Kix Brooks (Rick Diamond/WireImage) Country Music Hall of Famers Kix Brooks and Vince Gill are coming together for a writers round in Nashville to raise money for a nonprofit Kix co-founded. Kix started Hope on the Inside with fellow Louisiana native Briana Calhoun in 2023 to help people in correctional facilities.“I can’t wait to share what is going to be a really special night with some of Nashville's most […]

Chris Janson's 'Fun' (Harpeth 60 Records/Warner Music Nashville) The men behind "Buy Me a Boat" and "Dust on the Bottle" are getting together to have some "Fun." Chris Janson teased his new collaboration with David Lee Murphy on his socials on Wednesday."They can’t say we didn’t have fun! New song and music video feat. @davidleemurphy out Friday," he revealed, along with a snippet of the video."We had a truckload of it/ […]