HBO’s Music Box series is turning its spotlight on Jason Isbell for a film to premiere on the network April 7. Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed looks at Isbell’s creative process and his life and work with […]
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If you’ve been to the merch table at a roots music concert lately, you’ve probably noticed what I’ve noticed: Vinyl is front and center, and CDs are sort of an afterthought, if they’re available at all. That trend is […]
When the news spread last weekend that multi-instrumentalist David Lindley had died, musicians from virtually every modern genre expressed sadness and appreciation. He recorded and toured with hit singer-songwriters in the pop world like Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, and […]
Scientists have long paid attention to how music and memory are intertwined. We know that when we hear a song that was all over the radio when we graduated from high school, we can time travel, almost, back to […]
As part of its live programming marking Black History Month, the Grand Ole Opry aired video last weekend of an apology it formally issued last August to harmonica player and early Opry performer DeFord Bailey for dismissing him in […]
If you like to start off the Super Bowl with a good cry (and who doesn’t?), Chris Stapleton’s soulful, stripped-down rendition of the National Anthem delivered. It elicited tears from Eagles coach Nick Sirianni as well as lineman Jason […]
NPR Music has opened its submission window for its annual Tiny Desk Contest, in which unsigned artists and bands of any genre can submit video of themselves performing an original song in some way that involves a desk. The […]
Sixteen years after its founding, Record Store Day is still going strong as a way to bring exclusive and highly anticipated titles, and thus customers, to the independent record stores that are a cornerstone of the music community. This year, […]
Every Willie Nelson concert is a party, but at the Hollywood Bowl in April, the party is for him. A two-night concert dubbed “Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90” will celebrate Nelson’s 90th birthday with a jaw-dropping lineup that […]
Maybe a star-studded reality show is what it’s going to take to finally get mainstream country music to let someone other than white dudes onto the radio. Kacey Musgraves and actress Reese Witherspoon are producing an eight-episode series titled […]
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