Ashley McBryde on Keeping Country Music Honest With New ‘Devil I Know’ Album: ‘I Don’t Sing Anything That’s Not True’

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr’s “Rewind Forward” will be out on October 13. This is Starr’s fourth extended play release in three years.

Two Door Cinema Club have returned with their vibrant new single ‘Sure Enough’ – listen to it below.The Northern Irish trio’s new track is an explosion of energy, featuring fizzing synths reminiscent of retro video games and spry electric guitar lines, marking the start of their next era.“Comfort, safety and security are all easy to come by. All you must do is accept the lie,” the band said of the new song in a press statement.Listen to it below.The new single arrives after the band’s recent announcement of a 2024 North American tour.

Chelsea Handler has a new man in her life, and she’s so gaga over him she dropped a John Mayer reference to describe it.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For a while there, unbeknown to all but a few, there was a danger that hit country-pop duo Dan + Shay might go separate ways. But replacing the “+” in their moniker for a minus sign iwouldn’t have had much of a ring to it for either of them, so it’s to everyone’s benefit that they got to the root of what threatened to put a damper on their personal chemistry and found their duo mojo again in approaching the making of “Bigger Houses,” their fifth full-length album for Warner Nashville.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Every year at the Americana Honors & Awards program in Nashville, Jim Lauderdale will exclaim, as a running joke, “Now, that’s Americana!” — usually right after someone has given a rousing performance in a style that most people wouldn’t reflexively classify as Americana. The fact that it’s said both enthusiastically and slightly facetiously does beg the obvious, perennial question: What’s Americana… all kidding aside? Standing outside the Ryman Auditorium, where the 22nd annual edition of the awards show was about to go down, Brandi Carlile had an answer. And since she is the closest thing to an offical mascot the genre has had since the passing of John Prine, when Carlile talks about Americana, people listen.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Oliver Anthony has made his first serious step toward getting off the DIY train after instantly vaulting to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 without without a label or agent. UTA announced Thursday that it had signed the Virginia-based upstart for global representation in all areas.

Louise Redknapp certainly had something to smile about as she was seen looking stunning at a London event, days after going public with her new romance.The 48 year old mum of two recently stepped out with her new beau Drew Michael, 39, which is the first time she's openly dated someone since her split with former footballer Jamie Redknapp six years ago. Louise was seen without Drew by her side as she attended the reopening of Space NK's Duke of York store on September 20 in London. She looked sensational in a pair of black trousers, a white baggy T-shirt and an oversized leather jacket and heels.

Maren Morris has revealed that she will be departing from country music due to the industry’s “homophobia and transphobia.”The Texan singer has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights within the country music scene since the start of her career. She appeared as a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and apologised for country music’s historically poor relationship with its queer fans.In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Morris discussed her attempts to “burn [county music] to the ground and start over” as a way to make the genre more progressive and inclusive.

Dan Abrams has signed a new multi-year deal with NewsNation, in which he will continue to host its primetime Dan Abrams Live.

The 2023 Canadian Country Music Awards were a sensational event filled with music, excitement and well-deserved winners.

It wouldn’t be a country music party without a little bit of Carly.

is taking “a step back” from country music after years of from inside the industry. “I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over,” Morris told in a candid new interview. “But it’s burning itself down without my help.”For starters, the 33-year-old Grammy-winner will now release music through Columbia Records instead of their Nashville branch.

Maren Morris is over it!

Maren Morris is “taking an axe to the tree” that is rotting at the root — a metaphor in her new song “The Tree” about country music’s deep-rooted issues to grow with the times.

Maren Morris seemingly takes aim at the state of country music with the release of her new songs “The Tree” and “Get the Hell Out of Here.”

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It’s been a challenging time lately for Maren Morris in the country music world, as her views on key issues of the day have been in conflict with those of some of country’s more right-leaning artists or fans. She addresses the toll this has taken on her in a music video that came out Friday morning for a new song, “The Tree,” that makes it clear she’s feeling some estrangement from the genre, or even ready to think about moving on — although, ironically, the style of the song couldn’t be more country.

When Davina McCall tells OK! she’s “having the time of her life”, we don’t doubt it for a second. As we catch up with the radiant presenter, it’s obvious from the get-go that she’s happier than ever. She has another exciting new TV show on her hands with pet project My Mum, Your Dad, and has been working on her own fashion collection.

Geese have announced details of a new EP called ‘4D Country’ and released its first single – listen to ‘Jesse’ below.The release follows the band’s second album ‘3D Country’, which was released earlier this year via Partisan/PIAS.‘4D Country’ will be released on October 13 and feature a re-working of the title track from their recent album.Of its first single, which you can hear below, frontman Cameron Winter said: “‘Jesse’ started as a really fast song, then morphed into a slower, psych-ier, more soulful track.“It got left off of the album because we didn’t feel like there was a good place for it, but we’ve always really enjoyed playing it live.”Geese are currently midway through a UK headline tour, and play Glasgow’s King Tut’s tonight (September 10).See the remaining dates below.SEPTEMBER 202310 – Glasgow, King Tut’s11 – Dublin, Academy 212 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club13 – Manchester, Band On The Wall14 – Nottingham, BodegaReviewing ‘3D Country’, NME said: “This is an album made by young people who’ve – quite literally – watched the world burn before their eyes.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In the year 2023, Allison Russell has come as close as anyone is to being the face of Americana music, even though there are any rock-solid artists who’ve been in the limelight longer than she has — like Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams and her friend and mentor Brandi Carlile — who certainly count as poster boys and girls. She might even be the front-runner for the artist of the year prize at the upcoming Americana Honors & Awards show, which takes place in Nashville Sept. 20, notwithstanding that Billy Strings has been nominated again to defend his title.

Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods made their rekindled friendship official!