• Highlights from 2014 Hangout Music Festival Day 1

    The 2014 Hangout Music Festival kicked off Friday in Gulf Shores, Alabama. We posted yesterday about our favorite things from the festival pre-party, and today we bring you the highlights of Day 1. We saw Allen Stone and Ingrid Michaelson at the Chevrolet Stage, The 1975 at the Palladia Stage, Childish Gambino and STS9 at the Boom Boom Tent, and finally Dawes and The Black Keys at the Hangout Stage. Check back tomorrow for our Day 2 highlights!
  • Who's Going to be a Dad?

    With Father's Day coming up on June 15th, let's take a look at the dad's to be (and the new dads) in the country music industry ...
  • Rascal Flatts Takes "Rewind" on the Road

    When "Rewind" hit stores on May 13th, the band kicked off the Rewind tour with a one-of-a-kind event. Held at the Avalon nightclub in Los Angeles, the band played an acoustic set with each song being paired with a different wine based on the lyrics and tempo.
  • Introducing Kenny Carr

    Kenneth "Kenny" Carr is an internationally renowned jazz musician who has mastered sousaphone, bass horn, trombone, baritone, drums, trumpet, and piano. He is known as one of the world's premier soulful jazz trombonist and shout band recording artists.
  • Tour Journals: Jimkata frontman Evan Friedell talks the challenge of compiling a setlist

    Welcome to Tour Journals, a Music Times segment where we ask some of our favorite up-and-coming bands to send us a dispatch from the road. This time around, we've asked Jimkata frontman Evan Friedell to keep a journal on tour with him. Last week, he went behind the scenes of his first "hometown" show in New York City. This week, he talks about the challenge of coming up with setlists. Check back next week for more!
  • Michael Sweet vs. Nikki Sixx

    When Stryper's Michael Sweet wrote his autobiography, his reference to Motley Crue wasn't a dig or a slap, it was simply a comparison. Sadly, Nikkie Sixx didn't take it as it was intended and slapped out at Michael through social media.
  • "Country Music's Greatest Eats"

    What would happen if you were to put Alan Jackson, Alecia Davis, Allison Demarcus, Amy Grant, Brett Eldredge, Cody Alan, Craig Morgan, Easton Corbin, Eli Young Band, Gloriana, Holly Williams, Jana Kramer, Katie Cook, Miranda Lambert, Randy Travis, Scotty McCreery, The Henningsens, The Oak Ridge Boys, Trace Adkins, Wynonna Judd and Zac Brown Band into a giant kitchen with nine other country stars? There would be great stories, amazing music and food good enough (and varied enough) to make you cry!