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Lady Antebellum On Going 'Downtown' While Being Knocked Up
Lady Antebellum have been enjoying the spunkiest and sauciest hit of their career with the chart-topping single "Downtown," even as the videos and promotional appearances for it feature Hillary Scott looking ever-so-more pregnant. As the band takes the stage for an exclusive Yahoo! Music performance, the average viewer might not notice Scott's expectancy all that […]
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Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale: Alt-Country’s Dream Team
Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale: Alt-Country’s Dream Team
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Blake Shelton Previews A Rowdier New Album And A More Competitive New ‘Voice’ Season
Blake Shelton may seem like a laconic fellow, but behind that casual country ‘tude, there’s obviously a lot of drive that lets him keep three irons in the fire—namely, the imminent arrivals of a new album, a new season of The Voice, and his annual hosting stint for the Academy of Country Music Awards. During […]
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Scotty, Lauren, Dierks, Luke Bryan, Many Others Debut Unreleased Tunes In Nashville Showcase
Outside of an awards show, it's hard to imagine a more star-studded concert than the one put on by Universal Music Group at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday. Get a gander at this bill: George Strait, Lady Antebellum, Eric Church, Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Little Big Town, Vince Gill, Josh Turner, […]
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Jerrod Niemann, A True Country Lover-Lover, Performs for Yahoo!
With his breakout No. 1 hit a couple of years back, Jerrod Niemann complained: "Lover, lover, you don't treat me no good no more." His brand new single, "Only God Could Love You More," is another break-up song… or another might-break-up song. But it's a far less blithe ballad in which Niemann means to convince […]
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Aerosmith's Carrie Underwood Duet: Did Every Member Consider It A Match Made In Country 'Rocks' Heaven?
Bon Jovi already went Nashville a while ago, but is the world ready for a country-fied Aerosmith? That's what they'll be getting with a Steven Tyler/Carrie Underwood that appears on the group's new album, Music From Another Dimension!, due in stores Nov. 6. Steven Tyler tells Yahoo! Music that he's certain the song will be […]
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Taylor Swift's 'Red': An (Almost) Definitive Guide to Subjects of All 19 Songs
From "I Knew You Were Trouble" to "All Too Well," educated-to-wild guesses on who Swift is singing about on wide-ranging tracks of fourth album
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Pinkerton' Comes Alive at Weezer Tour Opener
Rivers Cuomo reclaims 'Pinkerton' — and cruises through the Blue album — on opening date of the much-anticipated mini-tour
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Paul McCartney Revisits Beatles Classics, Solo Gems at Hollywood Bowl Marathon
Has Paul McCartney been borrowing Bruce Springsteen's trainer? At 67, the former Beatle seems determined to suddenly turn his gigs into E Street-style marathons. When McCartney did an American mini-tour last spring and summer, fans (and, at the Coachella Festival, some curious acolytes) were astonished by shows that stretched out to the two-and-a-half hour mark. […]
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How Gibbard and Farrar Turned Kerouac Folk on "One Fast Move or I'm Gone" Soundtrack
If you imagine a soundtrack for 1950s-60s beat writer Jack Kerouac, it's surely bebop, not country-folk. But that didn't stop Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard and Son Volt's Jay Farrar from collaborating on One Fast Move or I'm Gone, a rootsy set of songs loosely based on a Kerouac novel. Would the legendary scribe […]
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