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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.

Get Tickets: Maui Songwriters Festival

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,...

Blake Shelton has announced his first full-length studio record in nearly four years. The Oklahoma native will release Body Language on May 21st. The album is the follow-up to Shelton’s 2017 long-player Texoma Shore.

Body Language — a Conway Twitty-esque title if ever there were one — spans 12 tracks, including Shelton’s current single “Minimum Wage” and the duet with fiancée Gwen Stefani, “Happy Anywhere.” The title track is a collaboration with the Swon Brothers, Shelton’s former protégés on The Voice.

“We’ve been working on this album on and off for two years now,...

Maddie & Tae have announced plans for their second album The Way It Feels, which is set for release on April 10th. It will mark the “Girl in a Country Song” duo’s first full-length release since their 2015 debut Start Here.

Several of the 15 tracks on The Way It Feels have previously been released as part of a pair of EPs — One Heart to Another and Everywhere I’m Goin’ — that Maddie & Tae issued in 2019. But The Way It Feels also reorders those existing songs and includes five previously unreleased songs...

As the Country Music genre continues to grow in popularity, shows like the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are all the more important.

This year, Tim McGraw and Miranda Lambert are each up for seven trophies, while Grammy performer Keith Urban has half a dozen shots at glory.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton will each compete in five categories, as will Kacey Musgraves and Lee Brice.

The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will go live on April 6th at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, hosted by Shelton and three-time nominee Luke Bryan.

And the nominees are…

Entertainer Of The Year

• Luke Bryan

• Miranda Lambert

• Blake Shelton

• George Strait

• Taylor Swift

Male Vocalist Of The Year

• Jason Aldean

• Lee Brice

• Luke Bryan

• Blake Shelton

• Keith Urban

Female Vocalist Of The Year

• Sheryl Crow

• Miranda Lambert

• Kacey Musgraves

• Taylor Swift

• Carrie Underwood

Vocal Duo Of The...

As the Country Music genre continues to grow in popularity, shows like the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are all the more important.

This year, Tim McGraw and Miranda Lambert are each up for seven trophies, while Grammy performer Keith Urban has half a dozen shots at glory.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton will each compete in five categories, as will Kacey Musgraves and Lee Brice.

The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will go live on April 6th at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, hosted by Shelton and three-time nominee Luke Bryan.

And the nominees are…

Entertainer Of The Year

• Luke Bryan

• Miranda Lambert

• Blake Shelton

• George Strait

• Taylor Swift

Male Vocalist Of The Year

• Jason Aldean

• Lee Brice

• Luke Bryan

• Blake Shelton

• Keith Urban

Female Vocalist Of The Year

• Sheryl Crow

• Miranda Lambert

• Kacey Musgraves

• Taylor Swift

• Carrie Underwood

Vocal Duo Of The...

Which music stars went home with awards at the 2014 Grammy Awards? Find out with this full winners list.

Winners in each category are bolded.

Record of the Year

"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers

"Radioactive" -- Imagine Dragons

"Royals" -- Lorde

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Bruno Mars

"Blurred Lines" -- Robin Thick feat. T.I. and Pharrell

Album of the year

"The Blessed Unrest" -- Sara Bareilles

"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk

"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" -- Kendrick Lamar

"The Heist" -- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

"Red" -- Taylor Swift

Song of the year

"Just Give Me a Reason" -- Jeff Bhasker, Pink and Nate Ruess (Pink feat. Nate Ruess)

"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars)

"Roar" -- Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry and Henry Walter (Katy Perry)

"Royals...