‘Tis the season. If you’re one that hates how early we start the Christmas festivities these days, you may want to look away. On Friday, Jon Pardi released his first Christmas album titled Merry Christmas From Jon Pardi. The album features a mix of original songs and covers of Christmas classics, and comes just 13 months after his most recent album, Mr. Saturday Night. Pardi announced the album earlier this month on Instagram: Christmas music is one of the most divisive topics of the entire holiday season. You’re either the person who starts playing “Jingle Bells” on November 1st, or…
Author: Easton Rex
Time to take home some hardware. On Thursday, Billboard officially released the finalists for their 2023 Billboard Music Awards, and country artists are well represented in the nominees. Morgan Wallen led all male performers with 17 nominations in 16 different categories, second overall only to Taylor Swift, including Top Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album, and Top Hot 100 Song. First year nominee Zach Bryan collected an impressive 14 nominations of his own, including Top New Artist and Top Hot 100 Songwriter. Bryan’s 14 nominations are the most this year for first time finalists. Other notable country nominees included Luke Combs…
Business in the front and, well, you know the rest. Country music has seen its fair share of interesting trends over the years, but one look that has become synonymous with the genre is the mullet. The style started to gain traction in the 80s and really took off in the early 90s before becoming outdated in the 2000s. Recent years have seen the mullet make a comeback, however, so it’s only fitting to take a look at some of the best mullets to grace country music. Billy Ray Cyrus Billy Ray might have the most iconic mullet not just…
That’s not something I ever thought I’d hear. Seemingly every day there’s some sort of interesting new use for AI, and one of the coolest is AI generated voices. You can basically recreate any famous voice using these new tools and get them to say, or in this case sing, anything you like. The latest viral application of the technology is a TikTok account Called White House Records, which features the fake voices of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Barack Obama covering all sorts of pop and country hits. The most viewed video from the account features all three “teaming…
“I’ll tell it like it is, I never thought that this would last this long.” On Friday, Randall King released his newest single, Hang of Hangin’ On, the latest release ahead of his upcoming third studio album. King teased the song on twitter early Thursday morning and confirmed the release on Instagram later in the day. Along with the new song, Randall also announced the title and release date for his new album “Into The Neon,” which is set to drop January 26th. Randall has one of the most classic Texas country sounds around, and the new song is a…
The gold chain cowboy is at it again. Friday Morning, Parker McCollum officially announced his 2024 Burn It Down tour, which features an impressive 42 shows starting in Spokane, Washington in January. The tour will also feature openers Corey Kent, Larry Fleet, George Birge, and Catie Offerman. The tour’s title reflects Parker’s latest single of the same name, which he sent to country radio earlier this year. Burn It Down was released as the second single off his most recent album Never Enough, following Handle On You, which turned out to be one of Parker’s biggest hits to date. The extensive tour dates are…