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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Rihanna makes her triumphant return with a summer club banger, Kesha delivers some boy-crazy hyper-pop, and Giveon taps the classic Memphis soul sound. Plus, new music from Jin, Latto, Wolf Alice, and more.

Rihanna, “Friend of Mine” (YouTube)

Kesha, “Boy Crazy” (YouTube)

Giveon, “Rather Be” (YouTube)

Jin, “Don’t Say You Love Me” (YouTube)

Rico Nasty, “Crash” (YouTube)

Latto, “Somebody” (YouTube)

G Flip, “Disco Cowgirl” (YouTube)

Cautious Clay,...

Keith Urban, Megan Moroney, and Kelsea Ballerini are among the country superstars leading the lineup for CMA Fest, which will take place at venues around Nashville June 5 through June 8.

Urban, Ballerini, and Moroney (fresh off her first cover story for Rolling Stone’s 2025 “Future of Music” package) will all take the biggest stage at CMA Fest, Nissan Stadium. Both Urban and Ballerini will perform there on June 6, along with Shaboozey, Cody Johnson, and Parker McCollum. And Moroney will play there on June 7 with Rascal Flatts, the Red Clay Strays, Blake Shelton,...

Willie Nelson was the first artist to perform on the pilot taping of Austin City Limits back in 1974, and he has returned to the now-iconic television series to help close out its 50th anniversary celebrations. Before his full performance airs on Saturday, February 15th, watch an exclusive preview of “Always on My Mind” below.

On October 17th, 2024, Austin’s Long Center for the Performing Arts hosted a performance by Willie Nelson & Family to commemorate half a decade since the launch of the live music program on PBS. An hour-long recording of the outdoor concert set against the city’s skyline will be aired as a Season 50 special premiering on February 15th at 8:00 p.m. Et. It will be available to stream online immediately following the initial broadcast.

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Following a warm-up set by local swing legends Asleep at the Wheel, the 91-year-old country veteran took...

Luke Bryan is hitting the road.

The 48-year-old country star will kick off a brand-new 30+ city tour this summer, the Country Song Came On Tour.

Luke will launch the tour on May 29 in Bethel, New York, making stops at cities like Savannah, Dallas, Toronto, Birmingham, Virginia Beach and Bangor before wrapping up on August 30 in Buffalo, New York.

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The ticket presale for Luke’s fan club members begins Tuesday, January 28 at 8 a.m. local time through Thursday, January 30 at 5 p.m. local time. Ticket on sales begin this Friday, January 31 at 10 a.m. local time. Citi / AAdvantage cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, January 28 at 10 a.m. local time to Thursday, January 30 at 10 p.m. local time.

For all tickets, head to Ticketmaster.com. Can’t find tickets for the city you’re looking for? Try getting resale tickets on Stubhub.

Luke Bryan will spend the summer on the road for the Country Song Came On tour. The country artist will perform across North American with special guests George Birge, Avery Anna, Ashland Craft, Mae Estes, Cole Goodwin, Braxton Keith, Randall King, Vincent Mason, Drake Milligan, Adrien Nunez, and Owen Riegling.

The Country Song Came On tour kicks off on May 29 in Bethel and will conclude on Aug. 30 in Buffalo. Bryan will make stops in Raleigh, Savannah, Dallas, Toronto, Hershey, Birmingham, Cincinnati, Hartford, Virginia Beach, Bangor, and more. DJ Rock will...

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Some of Nashville’s top songwriters are headed to Hawaii this month for the tenth edition of the Maui Songwriters Festival.

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Lee Brice, Chris DeStefano and Joel Smallbone of For King & Country are among the talent scheduled to appear at this year’s event, which takes place from January 15 to 18 at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua. Produced in collaboration with Sony Music Publishing Nashville and Renate Event & Design,...

Two Step Inn will return in 2025 with headlining performances from Alan Jackson and Sturgill Simpson. The Georgetown, Texas music festival will be held on April 5 and 6 at San Gabriel Park for the third consecutive year with more than 35 scheduled performances.

Jackson will lead the first day of the weekend event with additional performances from Miranda Lambert, Flatland Cavalry, Gavin Adcock, Ernest, Eli Young Band, Randall King, Tracy Byrd, Diamond Rio, Priscilla Block, William Beckmann, Diplo and more.

As the Sunday headliner, Simpson’s set will follow performances from Lynyrd Skynyrd,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Green Day make some noise ahead of their 14th studio album, Playboi Carti plays the field (with help from Travis Scott), and Lewis Capaldi delivers a heartbreaking ballad. Plus, new music from Peso Pluma, Sleater-Kinney, and Jid.

Green Day, “One Eyed Bastard” (YouTube)

Playboi Carti feat. Travis Scott, “Backr00ms” (YouTube)

Lewis Capaldi, “Strangers” (YouTube)

Luis R Conriquez, Peso Pluma, “Pixelados” (YouTube)

Sleater-Kinney, “Untidy Creature” (YouTube)

Jid,...

If you can’t make it to the Lone Star State this weekend, Hulu will be livestreaming many performances going down at Austin City Limits Festival 2023.

The livestream schedule include sets by Foo Fighters, Mumford & Sons, Alanis Morissette, The Lumineers, Hozier, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Maggie Rogers, Noah Kahan, Lil Yachty, Rina Sawayama, Tove Lo, The Breeders, Suki Waterhouse, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Niall Horan, Portugal. the Man, and many more.

The Austin City Limits stream is available to all Hulu subscribers from October 6th-8th. If you’re not currently a subscriber, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial.

Last-minute tickets to Austin City Limits 2023 are still available here.

Austin City Limits Livestream Schedule:

* = All times in Et; channels noted in parentheses

Friday, October 6th:

2:05 Pm – Asleep at the Wheel (1)

2:05 Pm – Devon Gilfillian (2)

2:45 Pm – The Altons (2)

2:55 Pm – The National Parks (1)

3:30 Pm – Nessa Barrett...

The 2023 Austin City Limits Music Festival has arrived! One of the top live music events of the entire year, the City Limits Festival starts at 2:05 p.m. Et on Friday, Oct. 6, and you can stream coverage on Hulu. There are some fantastic acts on the schedule this year, with Foo Fighters, The Lumineers, Alanis Morrisette and many others scheduled to appear. You can stream your favorite artists at the Austin City Limits Music Festival with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu.

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Ever since 2002, the Acl Music Festival has offered fans the chance to see some of their favorite musical acts live. The festival takes place over the course of three days,...

20 March 2023 – ACM and CMA Award-winning Singer/Songwriter/Producer Jon Pardi today announced his first official headlining run across the globe, the 2023 Mr. Saturday Night World Tour, produced by Live Nation. Named after his latest critically acclaimed album, Mr. Saturday Night, the tour kicks off in Belfast on Aug. 25 followed by multiple dates across the U.K. plus stops in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Oslo, and Stockholm. Pardi then returns for the North American leg of the Mr. Saturday Night World Tour, and rolls through Knoxville, Savannah, St. Louis, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, and more including dates in Ontario and B.C. Opening acts include Midland, Jackson Dean, Randall King, Ella Langley, and DJ Highmax on select dates.

Tickets will be available starting with a Citi presale beginning on Tuesday, March 21 and additional presales throughout the week (details below). The general onsale for the tour begins Friday, March 24 at 10 Am Local Time on LiveNation.

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)

Kate Vargas, “Glorieta to the Holy Place”

Kate Vargas’ “Glorieta to the Holy Place” creaks and sighs with otherworldly atmosphere, recounting a difficult pilgrimage made in the name of faith and healing. “I wrote a prayer,...

There’s a long, rich history of rodeo songs in country music, but not every artist who sang one has necessarily saddled up a horse. That’s not the case with Kylie Frey, a 25-year-old Opelousas, Louisiana, native who spent her formative years competing in regional rodeos. “I tied goats and roped calves,” the 25-year-old says proudly. Rodeo wasn’t just a hobby for Frey — her experiences in the dust and the mud, as Garth Brooks colorfully sang about the sport, inform both her worldview and the half-dozen songs on...

Country Music Hall of Fame member Garth Brooks has revealed Fun as the title of his upcoming studio album, sharing the news with fans during his weekly Inside Studio G Facebook Live chat on Monday, January 21st.

“It’s just the ‘Fun‘ album,” Brooks said during the discussion. “It’s just been a fun process to go through, especially being off from touring where you don’t have to worry if your voice is gonna be able to go in for sessions or not.”

Brooks said he expects to finish...

"Whispers that the latest from Winnipeg's favourite son had been rebuffed at European festivals before landing on Toronto's doorstep engender a suspicion towards it, as if it's typically Maddinesque gestures were just that: typical, tired, by the numbers." John Semley in Cinema Scope: "Granted, Maddin is once again working through his favorite hang-ups here: memory, family, and odes to forgotten film genres so consigned to oblivion that they never existed at all (in this case the Joycean gangster-haunted house picture). But Maddin finds new footing here, and his best leading man since Careful's Kyle McCulloch in Jason Patric, whose classic, rock-jawed good looks and tendency to play the silliness and surrealism totally straight, as if he's just happy for the job, make Keyhole feel like considerably more than another exercise in Maddinalia."

James Rocchi for the Playlist: "Maddin's usual fondness for the (soap) operatic and the melodramatic are both in play here,...

This week’s Must Read: While I’m not familiar with the films of Winnipeg director Winston Moxam, he sadly passed away very young back in April. Cineflyer has a round-up of articles and reviews about Moxam’s last feature film, Billy, which just opened in the filmmaker’s hometown. Plus, Randall King of the Winnipeg Free Press gave the film a glowing review.Battle for Brooklyn opened in NYC this week, so the New York Times published a semi-positive review by Neil Genzlinger. On the one hand Neil had some good things to say and the paper made the film a Critics Pick for the week, but way too brief reviews of very powerful movies like this always make me sad.Australia’s Beat magazine profiled Richard Wolstencroft about his latest venture, the just ended genre film festival Bloodfest Fantastique.Filmmaker Nathan Wrann has started a new Tumblr blog...