• California Artists Sing About Drought: E-40, Vienna Tang and Honorary Citizen Jake Owen with Jimmy Kimmel

    Things are pretty dry in the Golden State as the sun's rays are little brighter and golden than farmers and the governor might hope. Due to a lack of rain, Governor Jerry Brown has ordered mandatory water usage regulations for the first time, encouraging citizens of the state to be as conservative as possible when using H2O in the southern half of the state. Music Times came up with a few songs about drought sung by (and to) residents of California, including E-40, Jake Owen and Vienna Tang.

  • Jake Owen Cut Hair 'Cause Mom Told Him To

    Jake Owen is the cool, beach-country guy with the cool songs and the cool guitars and all that stuff. But you know what is not cool anymore? His hair. The 33-year-old's scalp recently got the respite it sorely needed after years of hauling Owen's wildebeest mane around. "I don't even know what the back looks like!" he told KMLE after getting a haircut. "I'll tell you what the weirdest thing for me is, is seeing my neck. I've never seen that before, you know?" At first, Owen blamed the cut on his significant other. "I don't know, man," Owen said. "My wife, she wanted a different man." But it did not take him long to reveal the truth. "It gets long, and my mom's always like, 'You need to cut your hair,'" Owen said. "It wasn't like I was going to trim it, I was going to just drastically do it." Perhaps the move was also made as part of Owen's recent commitment to be more badass.

  • The NCAA Playoffs, As Decided by Every School's Music Alumni: Alabama, Oregon, Florida State and Ohio State Face Off

    We at Music Times have, at best, a tenuous connection with college athletics. We write about music. At the same time, nothing is trending like the first ever NCAA College Football Playoff. The University of Alabama and University of Oregon held tight to their top spots in the bracket of four, Florida State slid up one spot after a close game with Georgia Tech and Ohio State jumped into the last available spot with a crushing victory over Wisconsin. The best thing we can do, lacking the athletic know-how, is check out how this would turn out based on famous musical alumni from each school. Check it out.

  • Jake Owen Shares 'What We Ain't Got' Music Video [WATCH]

    Country star Jake Owen has shared the music video for his latest single "What We Ain't Got," which you can check out below. The highly emotional video is pretty bare bones and features Owen singing the song while the camera focuses on several people who have overcome or are overcoming some sort of adversity, including a cancer patient, a prisoner and a paraplegic. According to "The Boot," most of the people who appear in the video are not actors and are actually suffering from the afflictions they are portraying. "I think it was just important to have real people and real scenarios in this song to help with the message of it," Owen says of the video. One of the people who appears in the video — the first person to appear after Owen — is the song's writer Travis Meadows, who wrote the song about his own troubled life.

  • Kenny Chesney Stadium Tour: Jake Owen, Cole Swindell, Chase Rice Added

    Kenny Chesney has already invited Jason Aldean and Eric Church to be part of his forthcoming Big Revival Tour. Now he is letting a few smaller stars — Jake Owen, Cole Swindell and Chase Rice — in on the fun. "When I came to town, I was a writer, trying to get my songs — and playing on a stool down on Lower Broadway," Chesney said in a press statement, via radio.com. "I didn't have nearly the success Cole and Chase are enjoying right now, but I know the difference getting your music in front of an audience makes. For both of these guys, who have a lot of energy and a real way of grabbing people, I think it's the perfect way to get the audience fired up for the show." With Chesney, Aldean and Church on the bill, it is tough to care about the rest of the guys, though.

  • Keith Urban Added as Headliner to Country Jam 2015

    Country star Keith Urban has been announced as one of the headliners of Country Jam 2015, "Taste of Country" reports, where he will be joining fellow superstars Tim McGraw and The Band Perry. The annual festival takes place at the Jam Ranch outside Grand Junction, Colorado, and will run next year from June 18 to 21. So far, just the three headliners have been announced, though more artists will be added soon.

  • Jake Owen Explains to Larry King How He Made it to the Top

    Jake Owen is a laid-back guy who appears to never stress about anything. So it was no surprise when he told Larry King on Larry King Now that his rise from opening act to headliner came because, "patience happened" and he had "a lot of great people" on his team who were all helping him get there.

  • How to Win New Fans (Jake Owen Style)

    When Jake overheard three ladies talking by the pool and one of them said that she hated country music, he sprung into action like a modern-day super hero, buying them lunch, chatting with them and then inviting them to his show. By the end of the night, he had three new fans and one country-convert!

  • Award-Winning Country Songs With 1-Word Titles

    While country songs with 1-word titles are more and more popular now, with tunes like "Dirt" by Florida Georgia Line, "Beachin'" by Jake Owen, "Bartender" by Lady Antebellum, "Yeah" by Joe Nichols all being in the Top 10 this week, the 1-word title isn't as new a thing as we seem to think. The award-winning 1-word titles phenomenon goes back 47 years.
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