Look, we’re not just tooting our own horn here when we say that Peso Pluma’s headlining set at the second night of Rolling Stone’s Future of Music showcase at the Moody Theater was the buzziest show in town on Wednesday. Fans started queueing up hours before the música mexicana megastar took the stage — one dedicated kid was there at 4 a.m., no typo — and all day, people were talking about the spectacle to come. But this is SXSW, and there’s never just one show worth seeing.
- 3/14/2024
- by Cat Cardenas, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Angie Martoccio and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
SXSW 2024 kicked off its first full day of music on March 12 with a smattering of must-see shows around town, plus some tension in the air thanks to the festival’s relationship with the U.S. Army. (When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott chimed in on social media, it was the kind of noise that no one needs.) While a number of acts cancelled their official showcases, many of them continued to play unofficial shows for the audiences that SXSW brought to town, and several spoke out in support of the Palestinian people and against war.
- 3/13/2024
- by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Christian Hoard, Angie Martoccio and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Willie Nelson will dive into his extraordinary catalog of music in a new book, Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs, set to arrive Oct. 31 via HaperCollins.
The book — which Nelson co-wrote with David Ritz and Mickey Raphael — will find the singer offering insights into the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs. The book will span the entirety of his career, covering some of his earliest hits (some of which he only got paid $50 for) to deeply-cherished deep cuts and some of his clever concept albums.
The songs will...
The book — which Nelson co-wrote with David Ritz and Mickey Raphael — will find the singer offering insights into the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs. The book will span the entirety of his career, covering some of his earliest hits (some of which he only got paid $50 for) to deeply-cherished deep cuts and some of his clever concept albums.
The songs will...
- 5/15/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Independence Day will be a smoke show in Austin this summer as concertgoers try to separate the weed from the barbecue at Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic. Expect extra celebrations as this year’s installment marks the annual event’s 50th anniversary.
The Picnic, which will take place at Austin’s Q2 Stadium, will of course feature a performance by Nelson and his Family Band, as well as Tyler Childers, Dwight Yoakam, Shakey Graves, Shane Smith and the Saints, Sierra Ferrell, Asleep at the Wheel, and Particle Kid.
The Picnic, which will take place at Austin’s Q2 Stadium, will of course feature a performance by Nelson and his Family Band, as well as Tyler Childers, Dwight Yoakam, Shakey Graves, Shane Smith and the Saints, Sierra Ferrell, Asleep at the Wheel, and Particle Kid.
- 4/21/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour rides again in 2023. And this time, it’s a dual celebration: not only of music that colors outside the lines, but of its headliner’s 90th birthday. Nelson turns 90 on April 29.
Kicking off June 23, in Somerset, Wisconsin, the Outlaw Tour will initially play 16 shows, each with Nelson in the top slot and a rotating cast of artists in support. The first...
Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour rides again in 2023. And this time, it’s a dual celebration: not only of music that colors outside the lines, but of its headliner’s 90th birthday. Nelson turns 90 on April 29.
Kicking off June 23, in Somerset, Wisconsin, the Outlaw Tour will initially play 16 shows, each with Nelson in the top slot and a rotating cast of artists in support. The first...
- 3/14/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
With the Eagles marching toward a Super Bowl berth (hopefully), Philadelphia has a lot to crow about right now (even Zach Bryan lives there). Add a dynamic new festival to the list, one developed by native son Dave Hause. The Americana-punk troubadour has announced the inaugural Sing Us Home Festival for May in the city’s Manayunk neighborhood and stacked it with Lombardi Trophy-level talent.
Set for May 5th and 6th, Sing Us Home features headlining sets by Drive-By Truckers and Hause himself, backed by his band the Mermaid.
Set for May 5th and 6th, Sing Us Home features headlining sets by Drive-By Truckers and Hause himself, backed by his band the Mermaid.
- 1/25/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The Last Waltz Tour, a live celebration of The Band’s 1976 farewell concert, will return to the road this fall. The all-star tour first debuted in 2017 with Warren Haynes, Don Was, and Jamey Johnson atop the bill. All three of those artists return this time to re-create key moments from The Band’s San Francisco concert, which was filmed for Martin Scorsese’s 1978 movie — a.k.a. the greatest concert film of all time.
Presented by Robbie Robertson, his son Sebastian Roberston, and Keith Wortman of Blackbird Presents, the tour includes Kathleen Edwards,...
Presented by Robbie Robertson, his son Sebastian Roberston, and Keith Wortman of Blackbird Presents, the tour includes Kathleen Edwards,...
- 9/12/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
John Anderson is going to sea. The “Seminole Wind” country singer is joining Outlaw Country Cruise 7 as a headliner opposite Lucinda Williams, the Mavericks, and Steve Earle & the Dukes. It’s the latest in a string of Anderson news, as the 67-year-old gears up for the release of Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson.
On Saturday, the tribute album will come to life onstage at the Grand Ole Opry, as Dan Auerbach, who co-produced the record, joins Tyler Childers, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Elizabeth Cook, and...
On Saturday, the tribute album will come to life onstage at the Grand Ole Opry, as Dan Auerbach, who co-produced the record, joins Tyler Childers, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Elizabeth Cook, and...
- 8/5/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Matthew Morgan has joined the agency as Co-Head of its Nashville office, working alongside Co-Head Jeffrey Hasson. Rock agent Buster Phillips has also joined UTA’s Music City headquarters.
Morgan has worked with a wide variety of influential contemporary and country artists including Grammy Award winners Lizzo and Zac Brown Band, as well as Anderson East, Breland, Cam, Dean Lewis, Gayle, Jessie James Decker, Jp Saxe, Keane, Kidd G, Michael Franti, Nightly, Noga Erez, Phillip Phillips, Rival Sons, Robyn Ottolini, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and The Revivalists, among others. He played an instrumental role in Lizzo’s career by introducing her to her producer and label, creating a touring strategy that took her from clubs to arenas, and brokering deals across film, TV, publishing, endorsements and more. Morgan previously spent 13 years at CAA and two years at CMT. He is a member of the CMA, ACM, and Recording Academy Nashville Chapter.
Morgan has worked with a wide variety of influential contemporary and country artists including Grammy Award winners Lizzo and Zac Brown Band, as well as Anderson East, Breland, Cam, Dean Lewis, Gayle, Jessie James Decker, Jp Saxe, Keane, Kidd G, Michael Franti, Nightly, Noga Erez, Phillip Phillips, Rival Sons, Robyn Ottolini, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and The Revivalists, among others. He played an instrumental role in Lizzo’s career by introducing her to her producer and label, creating a touring strategy that took her from clubs to arenas, and brokering deals across film, TV, publishing, endorsements and more. Morgan previously spent 13 years at CAA and two years at CMT. He is a member of the CMA, ACM, and Recording Academy Nashville Chapter.
- 12/3/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The Americana Music Association will recognize a band, solo artists, an engineer, and a vocal choir when it hands out its Lifetime Achievement Awards at the upcoming Americana Honors & Awards ceremonies in Nashville.
The Ama announced the recipients of its special awards on Tuesday. Eclectic rock-country-Latin band the Mavericks will receive the Trailblazer Award; blues singer-guitarist Keb’ Mo’ is set for the Performance Award; engineer Trina Shoemaker will be recognized for production work; vocalist Carla Thomas receives the Inspiration Award; and the choir of Fisk University, the Fisk Jubilee Singers,...
The Ama announced the recipients of its special awards on Tuesday. Eclectic rock-country-Latin band the Mavericks will receive the Trailblazer Award; blues singer-guitarist Keb’ Mo’ is set for the Performance Award; engineer Trina Shoemaker will be recognized for production work; vocalist Carla Thomas receives the Inspiration Award; and the choir of Fisk University, the Fisk Jubilee Singers,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
If you’ve been following the Grammys for the past few years, you may have noticed the prevalence of an often overlooked genre in some marquee categories: Americana has had a big resurgence, and the Grammys have been one of the places where this ever-evolving genre has shined through. Thus, the Americana Music Honors and Awards — which will be presented on September 22 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee — have become a good place for Grammy watchers to look if they want to get ahead of the curve and predict those dark horse artists. Let’s take a look at the nominees, the possible winners, and why these matter much more than you might think.
SEEGrammys flashback: When Tay beat Bey for Album of the Year in 2010 – does that win hold up?
Album of the Year is stacked with well-known artists inside the genre. Sarah Jarosz’s “World on the Ground,...
SEEGrammys flashback: When Tay beat Bey for Album of the Year in 2010 – does that win hold up?
Album of the Year is stacked with well-known artists inside the genre. Sarah Jarosz’s “World on the Ground,...
- 8/13/2021
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
The first round of performers has been announced for AmericanaFest 2021, which takes place in Nashville September 22nd to 25th. Among the 240 total artists scheduled to showcase at venues around Music City are Kelsey Waldon, Allison Russell, and Joshua Ray Walker.
More than 160 artists were announced on Wednesday, including singer-songwriters Kathleen Edwards, Arlo McKinley, William Prince, and Brandy Clark; roots patriarchs and matriarchs Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, and the McCrary Sisters; and scruffy alternative acts Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Early James, and the Pine Hill Haints, among many others. Also of...
More than 160 artists were announced on Wednesday, including singer-songwriters Kathleen Edwards, Arlo McKinley, William Prince, and Brandy Clark; roots patriarchs and matriarchs Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, and the McCrary Sisters; and scruffy alternative acts Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Early James, and the Pine Hill Haints, among many others. Also of...
- 7/21/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
The Outlaw Music Festival Tour, the annual package tour highlighting artists who make music outside of the mainstream, is returning in 2021. Once again headlined by Willie Nelson, the tour begins August 22nd in Texas and features a rotating cast of singer-songwriters and bands. Sturgill Simpson appears on more than half of the announced 14 dates.
Along with Nelson and the Family Band, the first show kicks off with Chris Stapleton, Ryan Bingham, and Yola playing the Germania Insurance Amphitheatre in Austin. Other artists appearing at various dates of the tour include the Avett Brothers,...
Along with Nelson and the Family Band, the first show kicks off with Chris Stapleton, Ryan Bingham, and Yola playing the Germania Insurance Amphitheatre in Austin. Other artists appearing at various dates of the tour include the Avett Brothers,...
- 5/24/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
After being dry-docked by the pandemic, the Cayamo Cruise is returning to the water in 2022. The concert-at-sea company Sixthman announced Cayamo’s lineup on Wednesday, a robust schedule with Punch Brothers, Emmylou Harris, and Grace Potter among the headliners.
Dawes, the Mavericks, Richard Thompson, Indigo Girls, and Ruthie Foster are also on the cruise, set for March 18th through 25th. This year’s theme is “A Journey Through Song.” Other artists include the Jayhawks, Kathleen Edwards, Shawn Mullins, John Paul White, the Secret Sisters, Sierra Hull, Allison Russell, Brittney Spencer,...
Dawes, the Mavericks, Richard Thompson, Indigo Girls, and Ruthie Foster are also on the cruise, set for March 18th through 25th. This year’s theme is “A Journey Through Song.” Other artists include the Jayhawks, Kathleen Edwards, Shawn Mullins, John Paul White, the Secret Sisters, Sierra Hull, Allison Russell, Brittney Spencer,...
- 5/5/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.
After eight years between albums and a sojourn running her own coffee shop — the cheekily named Quitters — Kathleen Edwards came roaring back to music in 2020 with Total Freedom. Like its title implies, it’s a record of liberation that finds the Canadian songwriter embracing the ups and downs of her past and present. “Life’s imperfections,...
After eight years between albums and a sojourn running her own coffee shop — the cheekily named Quitters — Kathleen Edwards came roaring back to music in 2020 with Total Freedom. Like its title implies, it’s a record of liberation that finds the Canadian songwriter embracing the ups and downs of her past and present. “Life’s imperfections,...
- 12/28/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
George Clooney, Dan Tyminski, Tim Blake Nelson, Chris Thomas King, and John Turturro are just a few of the names featured in the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? who will be reuniting for the film’s 20th anniversary next month.
The digital event is part of the Nashville Film Festival, which gets underway in a virtual format the first week of October. In addition to King, who played the role of bluesman Tommy Johnson in the film, artists including Tyminski (George Clooney’s singing voice on “Man...
The digital event is part of the Nashville Film Festival, which gets underway in a virtual format the first week of October. In addition to King, who played the role of bluesman Tommy Johnson in the film, artists including Tyminski (George Clooney’s singing voice on “Man...
- 9/22/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
The sirens on the rocks are summoning everyone back. The Nashville Film Festival will celebrate the impending 20th anniversary of the release of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” with an online reunion of principal cast members, plus musical performances from figures who appeared on the soundtrack and others.
George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and Chris Thomas King will be getting the old chain gang back together for the event, which is part of the festival’s Oct. 1-7 virtual proceedings. King will reprise his musical performance from the film in addition to being interviewed.
Also offering musical performances will be Dan Tyminski of Alison Krauss & Union Station, who provided Clooney’s “Soggy Bottom Boys” singing voice on “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” and other songs in the film, and two representatives of the Carter Family whose early 20th century sound was repopularized by the film, Carlene Carter...
George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and Chris Thomas King will be getting the old chain gang back together for the event, which is part of the festival’s Oct. 1-7 virtual proceedings. King will reprise his musical performance from the film in addition to being interviewed.
Also offering musical performances will be Dan Tyminski of Alison Krauss & Union Station, who provided Clooney’s “Soggy Bottom Boys” singing voice on “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” and other songs in the film, and two representatives of the Carter Family whose early 20th century sound was repopularized by the film, Carlene Carter...
- 9/22/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Each month, the editors and critics at Rolling Stone compile a list of our favorite new albums. Our picks from August include a bold return from the Killers, a return to reggaetón from Colombian star Maluma, a stripped-back sound from singer-songwriter Angel Olsen, and Katy Perry’s latest pop-star reinvention.
Angel Olsen, Whole New Mess
Olsen’s latest album presents last year’s All Mirrors material in its original form, which the singer-songwriter laid down in the fall of 2018 inside the Unknown, Phil Elverum’s church-turned-studio in Anacortes, Washington. The cinematic,...
Angel Olsen, Whole New Mess
Olsen’s latest album presents last year’s All Mirrors material in its original form, which the singer-songwriter laid down in the fall of 2018 inside the Unknown, Phil Elverum’s church-turned-studio in Anacortes, Washington. The cinematic,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Joseph Hudak, Samantha Hissong, Jonathan Bernstein, Gary Suarez, Ethan Millman, Brittany Spanos, Dewayne Gage, Brenna Ehrlich, Hank Shteamer, Jon Freeman and Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
It’d been six years since Kathleen Edwards had seriously thought about making music when she received an out-of-the-blue phone call from the manager of country star Maren Morris in 2017. For the previous three years, Edwards had been working 12-hour days at Quitters Coffee, the neighborhood cafe in suburban Ottawa she opened after a series of creative, mental health, and romantic crises led her to pause her music career in 2014.
Morris, a longtime fan, wanted to know if the Canadian singer-songwriter would write with her. Edwards was intrigued. “I thought,...
Morris, a longtime fan, wanted to know if the Canadian singer-songwriter would write with her. Edwards was intrigued. “I thought,...
- 5/19/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
No one ever knew what to call Mumford & Sons. The Guardian had already described them as “Coldplay reincarnated as hillbillies” by the time the group released their debut album in the U.S. in February 2010, a moment that garnered a slurry of descriptors: “foot-stomping British folk;” “skiffled Frames (nice banjo);” or, as this magazine wrote, “if Dexys Midnight Runners aged into boozy-pub session romantics.”
One word eventually stuck: Americana. The New York Times would describe the group as “Britons touched by Americana” later that year; a Spin cover story would...
One word eventually stuck: Americana. The New York Times would describe the group as “Britons touched by Americana” later that year; a Spin cover story would...
- 12/20/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Ned LeDoux celebrates the old ways of livin’, Joel Crouse returns with an Ed Sheeran co-write, and Kelsea Ballerini just wants to stay home in this week’s list of the best country songs to stream now.
Levi Hummon & Runaway June, “Cowboy Take Me Away”
A Dixie Chicks staple is reborn. When “Cowboy Take Me Away” hit the radio airwaves in November 1999, the song represented a woman’s yearning for a storybook romance. Two decades later, it unfolds like a conversation between two lovers, with Levi Hummon’s first verse adding a male perspective.
Levi Hummon & Runaway June, “Cowboy Take Me Away”
A Dixie Chicks staple is reborn. When “Cowboy Take Me Away” hit the radio airwaves in November 1999, the song represented a woman’s yearning for a storybook romance. Two decades later, it unfolds like a conversation between two lovers, with Levi Hummon’s first verse adding a male perspective.
- 11/12/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Kathleen Edwards can’t believe it: The first original song she’s releasing since 2012 is full of “meows.” The song is “It’s Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive),” a highlight from the forthcoming holiday album A Dualtone Christmas that features artists like Amos Lee, the Lone Bellow, and Delta Spirit.
“We’re really going in with a bang,” Edwards says of the tongue-in-cheek ode to lovably disastrous holidays that features Edwards providing a cat-like refrain. “I’ve been working on my unison ‘meows’ this whole time.”
The song, which Edwards describes as “little fragments,...
“We’re really going in with a bang,” Edwards says of the tongue-in-cheek ode to lovably disastrous holidays that features Edwards providing a cat-like refrain. “I’ve been working on my unison ‘meows’ this whole time.”
The song, which Edwards describes as “little fragments,...
- 11/4/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
After moving to Nashville from Ohio in 2011, Caroline Spence nannied, waited tables and wrote songs. It took her two years to come up with one she felt was good enough to play around town: “Whiskey Watered Down,” a gently savage kiss-off to a flaky musician. “You think you’re a big deal with that guitar in your hands,” she sings. “But you’ll never be Parsons, Earle, or Van Zandt.”
“I had been making myself a student [of those famous musicians],” the 29-year-old country singer says of her songwriting process. “The tagline of the...
“I had been making myself a student [of those famous musicians],” the 29-year-old country singer says of her songwriting process. “The tagline of the...
- 8/14/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
If you think country music is all about love and pickup trucks, then it's time to take a walk on the dark side of a genre where houses with abusive husbands are routinely blown up and you don't want to imagine what's lurking at the bottom of the river. From women who have had more than enough from their lying, cheating spouses to a boy named Sue hellbent on finding his scoundrel of a father, these are some of the best country songs about revenge. Some of these anthems are funny - like Travis Tritt offering his ex a quarter when she comes crawling back to him - but many of them will send a chill down your spine.
Just remember: dusty country roads hold plenty of secrets, and before you go seeking revenge, you might want to channel Tritt instead of Carrie Underwood, no matter how jaw-dropping her anthems about making men pay are.
Just remember: dusty country roads hold plenty of secrets, and before you go seeking revenge, you might want to channel Tritt instead of Carrie Underwood, no matter how jaw-dropping her anthems about making men pay are.
- 6/16/2018
- by Sabienna Bowman
- Popsugar.com
Promotional Our friends at eMusic share some of their favorite albums with us each week. Voyageur Kathleen Edwards A divorce record produced by her new beau, Bon Iver Voyageur was produced by Edwards’s new beau Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) in the wake of her marital split from her longtime guitarist Colin Cripps, making it her “indie rock” record and her “divorce” record. That may be true, but only to a point, and neither gets to the heart of Edwards’s voyage. With a little help, she finds a new companion, and herself as well. Cyrk Cate Le Bon Living on the...
- 1/19/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Men With Brooms Dir. Paul Gross (2002) Part of the appeal of Hulu is that it's starting to function like the early days of cable television (a prime example: the USA Network's show "USA Up All Night"), providing a home to second-run films that are proudly B-level or Z-level low-budget camp. The type of film that would be weirdly appealing as you flip through the television stations, even though you haven't heard of it. Men With Brooms has that feel. It's not a technically good film, but between its likable cast (Paul Gross, Molly Parker, and Leslie Nielsen) and refreshing topic - the absurd, beer-swilling and ice skating Olympic level Canadian sport of curling - it's certainly a film made for a lazy, aimless Sunday. It is also Canadian to the point that, during a crucial moment, Canadian songstress Kathleen Edwards' poignant "Hockey Skates" comes on the soundtrack, with...
- 2/5/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
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