Author: Casey Nyman

You can’t convince me there are many people in country music who would be more fun to hang out with than Luke Bryan. After more than 20 years in the industry, Bryan has built a reputation for being just as entertaining offstage as he is on it. He comes across as an all-around goofy, down-to-earth Georgia boy who isn’t afraid to let his sense of humor fly… even when he’s dealing with complete strangers. Alabama-born and now Nashville-based comedian Danae Hays recently put the “Crash My Party” singer’s open-book personality to the test, using him as the focus of one…

Fans at the Velocity Festival were treated to some unexpected Sunday worship with Creed headlining the final day, and while the pairing may seem unlikely at first, it actually makes perfect sense. The 90’s and 2000’s staple band, led by vocalist Scott Stapp, rounded out the three-day weekend at the Iowa Field of Dreams-based music festival, following up Shinedown and Carrie Underwood (who had some viral moments from the show of her own). In between their reigning fan-favorite hits like “My Own Prison” and “With Arms Wide Open,” Stapp took a brief detour from Creed’s catalog to perform a cover…

Call me naive, but I didn’t think the media literacy crisis was this bad. We’ve officially gone from hyper-fake AI-generated Facebook videos swindling Boomers and beyond to simple quote posts on TikTok fooling thousands of people. I didn’t think society still needed a PSA reminding everyone not to believe everything they see on the internet, but unfortunately, Ella-Langley-mania appears to have clouded everyone’s judgment. There’s no denying the 27-year-old country music star has exploded to an entirely new level this year thanks to her highly successful sophomore album Dandelion, and its reigning single “Choosin’ Texas,” which is challenging to spend…

A few weeks ago, it seemed like there was barely a handful of people left who actually liked Jelly Roll, but following his Jimmy Kimmel hosting stint, I think he may have just crushed whatever support he had left. 2026 has truly become the year of “Jelly Roll fatigue,” with his questionable setlist cover song choices, way-too-public divorce details, and rumors of low ticket sales dominating the conversation online. Unfortunately for Jelly Roll, his takeover of the late-night show while filling in for Kimmel a couple of weeks ago only added more fuel to the fire, sending the internet into…

If there’s one thing about the internet, it’s that people hate change and love to hate…and social media is the perfect place for those two things to collide. Unfortunately for country music’s sweetheart Lainey Wilson, she was the brunt of this weekend’s online discourse following the highly anticipated kickoff of college football. The Louisiana native was fittingly featured on College GameDay at the season opener in Baton Rouge as the celebrity guest picker and the event’s musical headliner. Wilson joined the crew of Nick Saban, Desmond Howard, Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, and Pat McAfee (who also received his own fair…

Carrie Underwood took a step away from her personal discography over the weekend, throwing the crowd for a loop with a few setlist shakeups at Iowa’s Velocity Festival. Located on the iconic Field of Dreams site, the Friday, September through Sunday, September 6 event hosted rock-centric bands Shinedown and Creed, with Underwood wedged in the middle as the headliner of Saturday night’s show. Fitting with the head-banging theme, Underwood decided to put her own spin on a few classics ranging from Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Collective Soul, Guns N’ Roses, and her currently most viral performance of Limp Bizkit. For…