After spending the last year as a free agent, Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Artists has found a new label home -- a strategic partnership with Universal’s John Varvatos Records, Big Machine Label Group and Republic Records.
Angaleena Presley releases her solo project, American Middle Class, on Oct. 14. She produced the disc with her husband, Jordan Powell, and admitted to Billboard that doing so was a risk.
2014 has been a year of renewed energy for Big & Rich. As their current single, "Look At You," sits at No. 20 on the Hot Country Songs chart, they're not only gearing up for the release of their fifth studio album, 'Gravity' -- they're looking back on 10 years of Big & Rich.
Blame King of the Bros Jason Aldean all you want for sparking country music’s recent obsessions with beer, trucks and even rapping. But don’t expect the massively popular singer, who grew up on Guns N’ Roses and is now trying his hand at “baby-making music,” to apologize for any of it: “You might as well slap me in the face as say ‘Yeah, it’s OK’ about a song of mine.”
Singer/songwriter Lee Brice scores his first No. 1 in four tries on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, as I Don't Dance, his third full-length album, arrives with 39,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
This weekend marks the Second Annual Bone Appetit -- an event that benefits Downtown Dogs Group, a no-kill animal rescue organization based in Jackson, Tenn. In addition to celebrating our furry friends, the event also features a lot of food and a lot of music, with Cody Ray Slaughter and a few other performers from the stage production of "Million Dollar Quartet" entertaining those in attendance.
