• Kenny Chesney Named Taste of Country 2016 Headliner...before 2015 Event Ends

    Music festivals are releasing their lineups earlier and earlier and Taste of Country has set a high bar by naming Kenny Chesney as the 2016 headliner before the 2015 event is even over. It's a bold move, as apparently the promoters of the event—which is currently in its third year—have already booked the venue for next year as well. Confidence is good, right?

  • Eli Young Band, The Chainsmokers Announced for Super Bowl 49 Pre-Parties

    The final week of the National Football League is underway, and the teams that will be headed on the road to Super Bowl XLIX will be decided over the next few hours. Only two will survive the gauntlet of the playoff tournament to get to Glendale, Arizona, where the Super Bowl will be played Sunday, Feb. 1. Surrounding the biggest sports event in the United States are a whole slew of parties, concerts and various events thrown by companies and media outlets with celebrities, athletes and socialites all looking to join the action for Super Bowl week. In the week leading up to the big game, there will be five days of free concerts by artists, including country stars Eli Young Band and pop-EDM upstarts The Chainsmokers. The five days of concerts will bring together a variety of styles, including some high-energy dance music, country and 1980s classics from Dramarama, Bow Wow Wow, Gene Loces Jezebel and Naked Eyes. Each night will span four hours, starting at 6 p.m. and ending at 10 p.m., with the headliner taking the stage at 8:30 p.m.

  • Country Singers Deliver on 'The Best of Me'

    When the Nicholas Sparks penned film 'The Best of Me,' starring Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden, hits theaters on October 17, the soundtrack will be filled with some of the hottest country singers of the day.

  • Eli Young Band's House Party

    When most people throw a house party, guests arrive in small groups and top out at 25 to 30 people. When Eli Young Band throws a house party, people arrive by the carload and the numbers soar into the thousands.

  • Working Out ala Country Style

    Shape Magazine is all about working out, so when they put out a country workout playlist, it shouldn't have been a surprise. The thing is, their list seems to be more about raising your heartbeat from the "sexy" factor than the actual beats per minute (BPM) making you move a little faster. While yes, the guys that they feature are all good looking, finding the right music to motivate takes more than how well the singer fills out a pair of blue jeans!

  • Darius Rucker - the New King of Pranks

    When bands go on tour, it doesn't matter if they're country, Christian, rock or R&B, there are some constants ... road food may or may not be good, bathrooms on the bus will start to smell if they're overused and pranks WILL occur.

  • Celebrating Being "Drunk Last Night"

    Last night, country music celebrated with Laura Veltz and Josh Osborne, the co-writers of the Eli Young Band's latest hit, "Drunk Last Night."

  • Rick Ross 'Mastermind's Billboard 200 Takeover

    'Twas another good week for new album releases, as half of the Top 10 spots on this week's Billboard 200 were occupied by new names, and four of those debuts managed to land in the top five.

  • Motley Crue Gets the Country Treatment

    When Big Machine Records announced plans to release a country tribute album to Motley Crue, last month, fans of the hard rockers were surprised and maybe a bit confused. Turns out that Vince Neil was just as confused at first.
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