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The 13th annual Mack, Jack & McConaughey (Mj&m) fundraising weekend has set a new record, raising over $17 million for five charitable organizations dedicated to children’s education, health and wellness.

Held April 24-25, 2025, in Austin, Texas, the event was the most successful in the organization’s history.

Mj&m, the joint fundraising initiative created by Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, ACM Award-winning recording artist Jack Ingram, and Texas coaching legend Mack Brown, supports CureDuchenne, Dell Children’s Medical Center, HeartGift, just keep livin Foundation, and The Rise School of Austin.

“This year’s record-breaking success means more children will receive life-changing support,” said Mack Brown. “We’re deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to making this our most impactful event yet.”

The two-day celebration kicked off Thursday with a star-studded Gala featuring a performance by country music superstar Eric Church. The festivities continued Friday with a Golf Tournament, Fashion Show by Neiman Marcus,...

Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila have all three kids by their side for a special night!

The full family stepped out together for the 2025 Mack, Jack & McConaughey Gala at Acl Live on Thursday (April 24) in Austin, Tex.

Matthew and Camila were joined by 16-year-old son Levi, 15-year-old daughter Vida, and 12-year-old son Livingston.

Mack, Jack & McConaughey (Mj&m) is the annual joint fundraising effort of McConaughey, ACM Award-winning recording artist Jack Ingram, and coaching legend Mack Brown. The two-day fun-filled event offers music, golf and fashion benefiting select non-profit organizations that each reflect the Mj&m goal to empower kids. Since the launch of Mj&m, the nonprofit has given over $61 million to charitable organizations.

Levi is a budding actor and he recently made a fashion appearance in New York City!

Exclusive: Ali Afshar’s Esx Entertainment has set the western Day of Reckoning starring Billy Zane, Zach Roerig and Cara Jade Myers.

Pic follows put-upon lawman John Dorsey (Roerig), who on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, posses up with a bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden (Zane) to hold outlaw Emily Rouse (Myers) hostage. A battle of wills ensues as Emily turns the posse on themselves, but as her marauding husband and his gang approach, Emily and John realize they will need each other to survive.

Shaun Silva of TackleBox Films is directing.

Producers of the movie are Ali Afshar, Christina Moore Daniel Aspromonte, and Don Lepore (Ride, Billy Joel – The Last Play at Shea, Emmy nominated The Irrelevant Giant.

Mack, Jack & McConaughey (Mj&m), announced today that seven-time ACM Award winner, four-time CMA Award winner, and 10-time Grammy nominee, Eric Church will headline the 2025 Mj&m Gala on Thursday, April 24 at Austin City Limits (Acl) Live at The Moody Theater.

This joint fundraising effort of Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, ACM Award-winning recording artist Jack Ingram, and coaching legend Mack Brown has raised over $61 million for charities dedicated to children’s education, health, and wellness.

Eric Church is a multi-award-winning country artist known for his passionate fan base, the Church Choir, and a critically acclaimed catalog of music. He recently released “Darkest Hour,” his first new solo music in three years, in response to the devastation caused in his home state of North Carolina by Hurricane Helene, pledging all publishing royalties from the song to disaster relief efforts. He is currently working on additional new music as the follow...

You’d have to look pretty far and wide to find anyone in music who has been as consistently good or eternally enjoyable as Miranda Lambert. Almost 20 years into her run, she’s defined her career by always going her own way, both musically and lyrically. Her ninth solo set was recorded in her native Texas with help from peers and longtime collaborators like Brent Cobb, Natalie Hemby, and Jack Ingram, and the album’s co-producer Jon Randall. Postcards From Texas doesn’t have as many genre swerves as Lambert sometimes delivers.

Sitting across from Miranda Lambert, it’s hard not to be confronted by the strength, determination, and “fuck around and find out” attitude that defined one of country music’s most promising debut albums. Kerosene, Lambert’s first major label LP, turns 20 next year, and the Texas songwriter is reflecting on all that led to its 2005 release.

“When I first started, I wanted longevity, a long career and to have relevancy, and be able to play as long as I physically could play,” Lambert tells Rolling Stone. “Luckily, I have...

Matthew McConaughey is making a rare appearance with his full family!

The 54-year-old Oscar-winning actor and his wife Camila were joined by their three kids while attending the 2024 Mack, Jack & McConaughey Gala at Acl Live on Thursday (April 25) in Austin, Tex.

The couple’s three kids – Levi, 15, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11 – looked so grown up during their rare public appearance.

Mack, Jack & McConaughey (Mj&m) is the annual joint fundraising effort of Matthew McConaughey, ACM Award-winning recording artist Jack Ingram, and coaching legend Mack Brown. The two-day fun-filled event offers music, golf and fashion benefiting select non-profit organizations that each reflect the Mj&m goal to empower kids. Since the launch of Mj&m, the nonprofit has given over $41 million to charitable organizations.

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Miranda Lambert is one of the most celebrated country music stars of the 21st century, building a discography full of classic songs going back 20 years. But what are her very best recordings? We count down the 18 greatest Miranda Lambert songs below. Watch their music videos below and let us know what you think. Do you agree with our choice for her number-one best song?

SEECarrie Underwood songs, ranked: We count down her 27 greatest hits full of love, faith, and a little revenge

18. “Vice” (2016)

17. “Little Red Wagon” (2015)

16. “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” with Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes, Caylee Hammack, and Elle King (2019)

15. “It All Comes Out in the Wash” (2019)

14. “Kerosene” (2005)

13. “Gunpowder and Lead” (2008)

12. “Automatic” (2014)

11. “If I Was a Cowboy” (2021)

10. “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” with Elle King (2021)

9. “Famous in a Small Town” (2007)

8. “In His Arms” with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall (2021)

7. “Somethin’ Bad” with Carrie...

“I have a love/hate relationship with the term ‘outlaw,'” Eric Church says in the opening moments of the the trailer to They Called Us Outlaws: Cosmic Cowboys, Honky Tonk Heroes And the Rise of Renegade Troubadours, a six-part documentary due next year.

Executive produced by country music luminaries Jessi Colter, Ray Benson, and Jack Ingram (who narrates), the 12-hour film, released in association with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, will feature interviews or performances from names like Church and Miranda Lambert to contemporary singer-songwriters Tyler Childers and Charley Crockett,...

The Born & Raised Music Festival will return for its second year in 2022, bringing a musical lineup that’s concentrated with Red Dirt, Texas country, and left-of-center country sounds. Presented by Aeg, the festival sets up at Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds in Pryor, Oklahoma, from Sept. 16 to 18 and features headlining performances from Zach Bryan, Cody Jinks, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Bryan, who recently played at Stagecoach, will headline the festival’s opening Friday night and Jinks will do the same on Saturday, with Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd leading the final day’s lineup.

Miranda Lambert has released another track off her upcoming album Palomino, ahead of its April 29 drop date. “Actin’ Up” is a swaggering slice of woozy country-rock, with Lambert dropping a wealth of pop-culture references in the lyrics.

In the first two verses alone, she alludes to Tommy James and the Shondells’ 1968 hit “Mony Mony,” Steve McQueen’s Mustang, and a golfer currently competing in this weekend’s Masters. “Even Tiger Woods couldn’t swing it this good,” Lambert sings.

Written by Lambert with Luke Dick and Jon Randall — Palomino’s...

Miranda Lambert sings about being in perpetual motion on her new album Palomino. Set for release April 29, it’s the follow-up to her collaborative 2021 album The Marfa Tapes and her first album under her own name since 2019’s Wildcard.

The track list includes a few songs from the bare-bones Marfa Tapes that are gussied up for Palomino, like “Geraldene” and “In His Arms.” There’s also a wealth of new compositions, many of them with songwriters Luke Dick and Natalie Hemby. Dick, Marfa Tapes alum Jon Randall, and Lambert produced the record.

The 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards winners were announced on Monday night, March 7, during a ceremony exclusively livestreamed on Amazon Prime. Scroll down for the complete list of winners, updated throughout the night. These ACMs were led by Chris Young with seven nominations, followed by Miranda Lambert, Walker Hayes, and Chris Stapleton with five apiece.

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The event spent more than 20 years on CBS, but this year has made the switch to the online subscription platform, which is already home to original TV programs and movies. The event was held at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, with ceremony host Dolly Parton and co-hosts Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett, who were last year’s ACM winners for New Male Artist of the Year and New Female Artist of the Year.

Last year’s winner for Entertainer of...

Miranda Lambert won her first Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 2022 ACM Awards. Other notable winners included Morgan Wallen, whose Dangerous: The Double Album won Album of the Year, and Lainey Wilson, who won New Female Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for her hit “Things a Man Oughta Know.” Chris Stapleton was named Male Artist of the Year and Carly Pearce took home Female Artist of the Year honors. Old Dominion won their fifth consecutive title as Group of the Year.

Ahead of Monday night...

The 57th Academy of Country Music Awards are tonight, March 7, celebrating the best in country from the past year. So who will come out on top? Hundreds of Gold Derby users have made their predictions here in our predictions center. Scroll down for our official odds, which are based on those combined predictions. Our projected winners are highlighted in gold.

We’re betting on the ACMs to spread the wealth pretty evenly. In fact, the only artist we’re expecting to win more than once is Walker Hayes, who is tipped to win four awards, all for his breakthrough, crossover hit “Fancy Like”: Single of the Year as both artist and producer on the song, and Song of the Year as both artist and songwriter. He was also up for New Male Artist of the Year, whose results were announced in the days leading up to the ACMs, but...

This year’s Academy of Country Music Awards nominations were a bit polarizing with the glaring exclusions of some artists leading the new wave in country music right now like Kacey Musgraves and Mickey Guyton, and the inclusion of the all-too-controversial Morgan Wallen. With the show coming soon on March 7, let’s take a look at the album and song categories to see who’s likely to win.

Album of the Year

A couple possible scenarios could happen here. The nominee that would make the most sense winning would probably be Morgan Wallen, as “Dangerous: the Double Album” is the most successful album here by a huge margin and was in fact the biggest album of 2021 from any genre. However, I’m still not sure about how much the ACMs will want to give Wallen such a big honor, especially considering he was banned from competing and attending last year’s edition.

The 57th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards nominations were announced on Thursday morning, February 10. The winners will be announced during a ceremony held on Monday, March 7, but unlike previous years when the awards show has aired on CBS on broadcast television, these will be exclusively livestreamed on Amazon Prime. See the full list of nominations below, led by Chris Young with seven, followed by Miranda Lambert, Walker Hayes, and Chris Stapleton with five apiece.

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Entertainer Of The Year

Eric Church

Luke Combs

Miranda Lambert

Chris Stapleton

Carrie Underwood

Female Artist Of The Year

Gabby Barrett

Miranda Lambert

Ashley McBryde

Maren Morris

Carly Pearce

Male Artist Of The Year

Jimmie Allen

Luke Combs

Thomas Rhett

Chris Stapleton

Morgan Wallen

Duo Of The Year

Brooks & Dunn

Brothers Osborne

Dan + Shay

Locash

Maddie & Tae

Group Of The Year

Lady A

Little Big Town

Midland

Old Dominion...

Two heads are better than one, so they say, and the Academy of Country Music voting members would seem to agree. As nominations for the 2022 ACM Awards rolled in on Thursday, numerous collaborative singles like Chris Young and Kane Brown’s “Famous Friends” found their way into major categories alongside Walker Hayes’ breakout hit “Fancy Like” and Morgan Wallen, who was banned from the 2021 ACM Awards after his racial-slur controversy.

Young leads all nominees with seven total nods, including Album of the Year for Famous Friends and several others including...

Mack, Jack & McConaughey (Mj&m), Austin’s beloved charity event, returns for its tenth year on April 28-29, 2022.

Kenny Chesney to Headline 10th Annual Mack, Jack & McConaughey Gala

The joint fundraising effort of Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, Academy of Country Music Award-winning songwriter and recording artist Jack Ingram, and coaching legend Mack Brown has raised nearly $20 million for charity beneficiaries dedicated to children’s education, health and wellness. Mj&m announced today that Kenny Chesney, the 8-time ACM and Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year will headline the 2022 Gala Thursday, April 28 at Acl Live at The Moody Theater.

Tickets go on sale Friday, February 4 at 10 a.m. Cst and are available to the public here. This intimate, acoustic show is designed to bring the charity audience a very special night of entertainment unlike anything attendees might experience at a regular concert.

Deemed “The People’s Superstar” by The Los Angeles Times,...

The next season of the Netflix self-improvement series Queer Eye premieres Dec. 31 and takes the cast to Texas to continue their mission of encouragement and empowerment. Texas native Miranda Lambert has recorded a new song called “Y’all Means All” for the series, a snippet of which can be heard in the show’s teaser. She also dropped the full song and lyric video at midnight on Thursday.

While the Queer Eye ambassadors put on cowboy hats and learn about boot-scooting (“What is a honky-tonk?” Tan France asks at one point) in the teaser,...

Chris Stapleton and Mickey Guyton were the top nominees in the country music categories when the Grammy Awards announced their nominations on Tuesday. Stapleton and Guyton will compete in the same three categories: Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song, and Best Country Album.

Stapleton’s nominations come on the strength of his album Starting Over, which is nominated for Best Country Album. His recording of “You Should Probably Leave” is up for Best Country Solo Performance, while “Cold” competes for Best Country Song. Guyton’s debut LP Remember Her...

Julien’s Auctions announced the launch of the exclusive, online charity auction Music Health Alliance Second Annual Handwritten Lyrics Auction at juliensauctions.com for advance bidding beginning Friday, October 15th, 2021 to coincide with Heal The Music Day.

The auction will start closing in real time and in lot order for live bidding at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, November 1st, 2021. Proceeds will benefit Music Health Alliance whose mission is to Heal the Music by providing access to healthcare through services that protect, direct and connect music professionals with medical and financial situations.

For the second consecutive year, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars partnered with a marquee list of the most decorated and influential singers and songwriters of all time, across the genres of pop, rock, country, folk, americana, and gospel music, who personally donated handwritten lyrics of some of their most classic and ground-breaking hits to...

This has been an exciting year for country music. From the returns of acclaimed singer-songwriters like Chris Stapleton and Kacey Musgraves to some massive chart successes for acts like Gabby Barrett, Walker Hayes, Luke Combs, and Morgan Wallen, it’s safe to say the genre is having a resurgence. With that in mind, the competition for even a nomination at the Grammys is tightening up, so let’s take a look at the likeliest contenders.

The biggest country players this year will likely be Musgraves and Stapleton. Both artists have previously swept the country field for their respective albums “Golden Hour” and “Traveller,” and both might go head-to-head this year with their current releases “Star-Crossed” and “Starting Over” — Musgraves could be slotted in pop, though, since “Star-Crossed” is more pop-leaning than her previous work. In Stapleton’s case, he’s likely to get performance and/or songwriting noms for one...

Austin City Limits has announced the first half of its new season. The 47th season of the long-running live-music series kicks off October 2nd with an hour devoted to Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, and Jack Ingram and their collaborative album The Marfa Tapes. Ahead of the premiere, Acl debuted Lambert, Randall and Ingram’s performance of the song “In His Arms.”

“My favorite thing is to write love songs about men with men,” Lambert says to introduce the ballad. “We know ‘em better than anybody,” Ingram quips. Lambert says they...

Todd Snider has announced dates for an extensive fall tour. The Nashville singer-songwriter’s Return of the Storyteller Tour begins July 24th with a sold-out event at Tennessee’s the Caverns.

Spanning more than 50 dates from which audio will be compiled for a live album, the Return of the Storyteller Tour will keep Snider on the road through early December. Stops along the way include Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse, New York’s Gramercy Theatre, and Seattle’s Washington Hall, plus multiple nights in Felton, California; Des Moines, Iowa; and Tomball,...

The latest episode of CMT’s new series Campfire Sessions featured artists performing intimate acoustic versions of cover songs. Kelsea Ballerini had a standout performance on the July 1st episode, adding a little country twist to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” a 1977 song that went viral last year thanks to a TikTok video.

Ballerini’s rendition doesn’t have the keys or disco-lite beat of the original “Dreams,” but Stevie Nicks’ bittersweet melody gets center stage here amid a set of ringing open chords. With her band members backing her up,...

Miranda Lambert pays tribute to her Texas roots in the new song “Two-Step Down to Texas,” a track on her collaborative album The Marfa Tapes, a stripped-down, rustic record with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall.

“If you ever get time to two-step down to Texas/find yourself down ’round Austin way,” Lambert sings to kick off the song, which includes a multitude of Austin allusions. She name-checks live-music haunts like the Broken Spoke dance hall, the Continental Club, and the Carousel Lounge, along with venerable Texas artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan...

Netflix released the trailer for the fourth and final season of “Atypical,” which will premiere on July 9.

The coming-of-age comedy follows Sam (Keir Gilchrist), a 19-year-old on the autism spectrum as he searches for love and independence. This season will see each character face a challenge they never anticipated as Sam sets his sights on a nearly impossible goal.

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Rapaport, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Nik Dodani, Jenna Boyd, Amy Okuda, Graham Rogers, Fivel Stewart will return for the final season.

“Atypical” is created, written and executive produced by Robia Rashid under her Weird Brain Inc. banner. Writer Mary Rohlich and Seth Gordon serve as executive producers.

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CBS announced that the new one-hour reality series “Secret Celebrity Renovation” will premiere on July 9 at 8 p.m. Hosted by “Entertainment Tonight’s” Nischelle Turner, the series will give stars the opportunity to show...

Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall performed the drinking song “Tequila Does” off their stripped-down album The Marfa Tapes during the 2021 CMT Music Awards. Seated around a campfire, the trio strummed guitars and harmonized, playing up the natural vibes of the LP, which was recorded mostly outdoors in west Texas.

Lambert takes lead on this one, relishing lyrics about choosing Casamigos and Jose Cuervo over a guy. “They don’t love me like tequila does/nobody can,” she sang. The Texas-born country singer was tied with Maren Morris for...

Miranda Lambert is gorgeous during her performance at the 2021 CMT Music Awards! The 37-year-old country music queen sang and played the guitar alongside Jon Randall and Jack Ingram during the awards ceremony on Wednesday. The trio, who collaborated on the album, The Marfa Tapes, performed an acoustic version of Lambert’s hit song, “Tequila Does,” in front of a house...

H.E.R. and Ingrid Andress will join the star-studded performer lineup for the 2021 CMT Awards while Anthony Mackie, Busy Philipps, Iliza Shlesinger and Michael Strahan have been added as presenters, the network announced Monday (June 7).

The two artists will duet with previously announced performers: Fast-rising R&b star H.E.R. will continue her musical expansion by singing with Chris Stapleton (with whom she recently recorded), while Andress will share the stage for the first time with pop singer Jp Saxe. Likewise, Lindsay Ell has been added to perform with Lady A and Carly Pearce.

Hosted by country luminaries Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown, the show airs Wednesday (June 9) at 8 p.m. Et/ 7 p.m. Ct on CMT, MTV, MTV2, Logo, Paramount Network and TV Land.

Other performances will include Breland + Mickey Guyton, Brothers Osborne + Dierks Bentley, Carrie Underwood + NeedToBreathe, Chris Young + Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini + Paul Klein from Lany, Lauren Alaina + Jon Pardi,...

Cody Jinks and Zz Top will headline the first Born & Raised Music Festival, a new concert and camping event set for September 17th through 19th in Pryor, Oklahoma, at the Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds — known to metalheads as the home of Rocklahoma.

Billed as a “weekend of music and camping for the outlaw in all of us,” the lineup includes outlaw country artists, Americana singer-songwriters, and a heavy dose of Red Dirt bands. Blackberry Smoke, Lucinda Williams, Randy Rogers Band, Parker McCollum, Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, Jack Ingram,...

On Tuesday, CMT announced the first group of performers for the 2021 CMT Music Awards, set to air Wednesday, June 9th, at 8 p.m. Et on the cable network.

The initial lineup includes a handful of all-star collaborative performances that pair contemporary country artists with musical legends and new faces alike. Those include multiple nominee Mickey Guyton singing with soul/R&b icon Gladys Knight, duo Brothers Osborne joining their “Burning Man” collaborator Dierks Bentley, and Maren Morris with her “Line by Line” duet partner Jp Saxe. Also performing at this...

The first round of performers announced for the 2021 CMT Music Awards is heavy on duets, as the telecast will include numbers uniting Mickey Guyton with Gladys Knight, Maren Morris with Jp Saxe and Brothers Osborne with Dierks Bentley.

Also unveiled Wednesday as landing performance slots on the June 9 show were country superstars Luke Combs and Chris Stapleton. An appearance by the Texas trio of Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, who just released the trio project “The Marfa Tapes,” is also on the books.

Guyton and R&b-pop legend have not collaborated before. Morris was recently a featured artist on “Line by Line,” a single credited to Saxe, a multiple 2021 Grammy nominee. Brothers Osborne and Bentley are no strangers to one another; the country duo appeared as featured artists on Bentley’s “Burning Man” in 2018.

Combs is the currently hottest act on the bill so far, commercially speaking, even...

After its 24-hour online stream in May, The Marfa Tapes Film — following the making of Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall’s new collaborative album — is available for purchase and rental. Also featured in the short film is the new song “They’ve Closed Down the Honky Tonks,” a track that doesn’t appear on the recently released Marfa Tapes album.

A solo acoustic Lambert performance, “They’ve Closed Down the Honky Tonks” was penned by Lambert in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic when quarantine had everyone...

Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The 22-song set, which features contributions from Pharrell Williams, Future, and Jhene Aiko, among others, debuted at Number One two weeks ago. After being knocked out of the top spot by DJ Khaled’s Khaled Khaled last week, Moneybagg Yo rebounded on the latest chart, earning 74.6 million streams. Meanwhile, Khaled Khaled fell to Number Three, earning 50.5 million streams but falling behind Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous (58.3 million streams).

Rapper Tee Grizzley owned the...

Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday night to perform their Marfa Tapes track “In His Arms.”

The trio gave the simple, sweet song an appropriate set-up, playing guitar and singing in front of a wood-beam backdrop surrounded by Edison bulbs. “Is he playing in some house band in Dallas?/Is he breaking horses in San Antone?” Lambert sang. “Is he all alone in the neon light?/I wish I was in his arms tonight.”

Lambert, Ingram and Randall recorded The Marfa Tapes in Marfa,...

Amazon Prime Video announced that the final season of “Bosch” will premiere on June 25.

All eight episodes will launch at once. Based on the best-selling Michael Connelly novels, the show has been the streamer’s longest running series so far.

The new season kicks off when a 10-year-old girl dies in an arson fire, prompting Detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) to risk everything to bring her killer to justice despite opposition from powerful forces.

The cast also includes Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, Madison Lintz and Lance Reddick. “Bosch” is executive produced by Welliver, Elle Johnson, Pieter Jan Brugge, Henrik Bastin, Michael Connelly and Eric Overmyer.

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The Atx Television Festival announced the additions of HBO’s upcoming new series “The White Lotus” and “In Treatment,” as well as HBO Max’s new comedy “Hacks,” a Season 3 discussion of “Titans” and a theme panel...

Billie Eilish holds on to Number One on the Apple Music Pre-Add Chart with Happier Than Ever, the long-awaited followup to her debut, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go?

Happier Than Ever, due July 30th, leads Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (Number Two) and OneRepublic’s Human (Deluxe) as the album with the most pre-adds on Apple Music from April 30th through May 6th. Pre-adds allow listeners to queue up an album to be added to their library when it’s released, offering a good indication of the...

Jon Randall had been going to Marfa, Texas, and nearby Terlingua since the early 2000s, and he was quickly becoming an evangelist. “It was one of those places that just filled my heart,” the Texas-born songwriter and producer says. “Especially if you’re very creative and ever have an introspective part of you, it’s that place you want to be.”

Randall says he had “oversold” the place to his friends so many times that finally, in 2014, two of his fellow Lone Star natives took him up on the offer.

Hayes Carll was in the middle of a performance last week when he managed to sum up what many musicians and fans have been feeling for months.

“I tell people for the first four years of my career and for the last 16 months of my career, I’d finish a song and nobody clapped,” the Texas songwriter said, as midnight neared and cool winds blew into the open-air Truman Waterfront Park Amphitheater in Key West, Florida. “In between, I had a pretty nice run where people clapped. So, it’s...

As the release of their collaborative album The Marfa Tapes draws near, the trio of Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall are popping up with live appearances. On Wednesday, they performed the song “Geraldene” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and followed it with the Thursday announcement of a new documentary.

Like their previous televised performances, the trio’s version of “Geraldene” is an all-acoustic performance that has the looseness of a friendly jam session. Lambert smiles her way through the funky, swaggering tune referencing a woman who’s “trailer-park pretty” and causing domestic trouble.

When Miranda Lambert walked offstage at Denver’s Pepsi Center on March 2nd, 2020, it marked the last time she would perform in front of paying fans for more than a year. That dry spell came to an end last week when Lambert played her first three of five scheduled indoor concerts at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth.

A cavernous 100,000-square-foot space, Billy Bob’s has become a live-music institution in Texas since opening in 1981. Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, and Zz Top have all performed there. Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry,...

Moneybagg Yo has had some massive debuts on the Rs 200, with Time Served debuting at Number Four and Code Red debuting in the top 10. He’s on track for another big debut with A Gangsta’s Pain, which dropped on Friday. In the week leading up to its release, the album was the biggest album on Apple Music by Pre-Adds.

Pre-adds allow listeners to queue up an album to be added to their library when it’s released, offering a good indication of the albums that fans are most excited for.

For the second time in just seven months, the Academy of Country Music handed out its annual awards. After the 2020 ACM Awards were delayed from April to September because of the pandemic, the organization moved the show from Las Vegas to Nashville for the first time in its history. And if those ACMs made a point of being transparent in their approach to Covid safety, this year’s show did the same in the way it addressed country music’s inclusivity problem.

That much was evident from the early minutes of the show,...

Elle King and Miranda Lambert kicked off the 2021 Academy of Country Music Awards with a bang, performing “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” in heavily fringed biker jackets and glittery bellbottoms.

.@mirandalambert and @ElleKingMusic just kicked off the 56th #ACMawards with their performance of "Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)" from the @opry!

Miranda Lambert and Elle King are set to open Sunday’s 56th ACM Awards with the live debut of their upbeat party song “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home).” The Academy of Country Music announced its performance lineup on Tuesday, detailing song selections and other collaborations.

In addition to Lambert and King, Dierks Bentley will join up with the War and Treaty to perform U2’s “Pride (In the Name of Love)” with the husband-and-wife duo. Other collaborations include Lambert with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall singing “In...

Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett were named the best new male and female artists of the year by the Academy of Country Music in pre-telecast reveals posted Thursday morning.

Both artists were pictured opening up video cards from ACM Awards co-host Keith Urban and being shocked by the news. Allen was handed his as “something that arrived in the mail” in a studio control booth. “You’re just playin’!” he exulted after watching Urban’s video proclamation.

Barrett, sitting at a conference room table, was just a little more expectant when opening her video card:”Oh my God! Now I know why you told me to put on my makeup and get dressed.”

Giving these awards out early isn’t just a way to knock some categories off early and leave more time on the three-hour CBS telecast for performances, although it is performance-related. As Urban noted in his video messages,...

Maren Morris, Eric Church, and Mickey Guyton are among the artists scheduled to perform at the 2021 Academy of Country Music Awards. The show will take place in Nashville on Sunday, April 18th, and, as with the 2020 edition of the show, incorporate the stages of Ryman Auditorium, Bluebird Cafe, and the Grand Ole Opry House for more than 30 total song performances.

Specific song choices haven’t been detailed yet, but Miranda Lambert and her Marfa Tapes collaborators Jon Randall and Jack Ingram are all part of the show lineup. Elle King,...

The Academy of Country Music has revealed what it says is the full performance lineup for its April 18 awards show on CBS, a list of 29 performers that includes co-hosts Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton as well as major stars of the genre like Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Maren Morris and Luke Combs.

Also slated to appear on the three-show show are Dan + Shay, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Little Big Town, Kane Brown, Brothers Osborne, Ashley McBryde, Kelsea Ballerini, Alan Jackson, Carly Pearce, Chris Young, Jack Ingram, Lee Brice, Ryan Hurd, Elle King, CeCe Winans, Jon Randall and the War and Treaty.

Although no songs were announced, it appears fairly certain that Lambert, Ingram and Randall will be joining up to premiere a song from their upcoming album as a Texas trio, “The Marfa Tapes,” due out May 7. Lambert and King recently released a joint single,...