Stetson, Other Brands Drop Nashville Hat Store That Sold ‘Offensive’ Anti-Vax Patches

Chaka Khan and Lionel Richie were among the icons of the music industry honoured with the Rhapsody & Rhythm Award at this year’s Celebration of Legends Benefit Concert in Nashville. 

Soccer Mommy has shared a new single called ‘Kissing In The Rain’ – listen below.The Nashville singer-songwriter’s new song is part of the soundtrack for the new DC comic book Dark Nights: Death Metal, appearing alongside tracks by Mastodon, IDLES, HEALTH, and others.“Please don’t let me go/ I’ll be in control/ I’ll be like everybody else is/ I can play it safe/ Save the kissing in the rain/ If it means I’m all you ever wanted to find,” Soccer Mommy sings on the song’s chorus.She continues:

RuPaul’s Drag Race — Trixie Mattel and Miz Cracker — plus Dorian Electra, a Texas-born queer, genderfluid experimental pop artist, and Bratty, a Mexican folk-pop starlet whose real name is Jenny Juárez.The next day, Saturday, June 26, offers Dawn Richard of Danity Kane fame, followed by two Nashville-based artists, Jake Wesley Rogers, a gay glam-popper who got his start as a teenager on America’s Got Talent, and Mercy Bell, a queer Latina country/folkie, before the headline set from the “Lost On

Miley Cyrus' upcoming Pride special is here! Fans got a first look at  on Thursday, ahead of the special's June 25 debut. The trailer came about a month after news broke of Cyrus' overall deal with NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. The Pride special — one of three specials Cyrus will produce for NBCU — will stream exclusively on Peacock.

A special celebration. On Thursday, June 17, Peacock announced that Miley Cyrus will be celebrating Pride Month in a special way!

Peacock is a planning a Party in the U.S.A.

UTA this week became the first of the major agencies and one of the first entertainment companies to reopen its offices after 15 months, inviting back agents and support staff that have been vaccinated against Covid. The offices re-opened yesterday, this coming two weeks after the agency reopened refurbished offices in Nashville. Plans are to reopen in London August 31 and New York on September 7.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIf the only performance Ned Beatty had ever given was the six minutes he appeared in “Network,” he’d be an actor the world would remember. In that visionary satire-that’s-not-really-a-satire, Beatty, who died Sunday at 83, does one of the most towering one-stop scene steals of all time as Arthur Jensen, the corporate communications overlord who comes in to read the riot act to Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the mad prophet of the airwaves.

Chris Willman Music WriterAfter he initially announced plans to release his debut album independently, singer-songwriter Sam Williams has signed with Universal Music Group Nashville, the company is announcing today. The 24-year-old son of country icon Hank Williams Jr.

Crys Matthews, Mya Byrne, Ben Garnett, BOOJUM, Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, and Gangstagrass. The next day offers Willi Carlisle, Maddie Witler, Amanda Fields, Hasee Ciaccio & Friends, Stephanie Anne Johnson, and Rainbow Girls.

Unexpected BFFs? Ali Fedotowsky’s move to Nashville came at a time when friend Jana Kramer may have needed her most — amid the country singer’s divorce from Mike Caussin.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWarner Chappell Production Music has opened the doors to two new recording facilities: SkyLight Studios in Los Angeles and Sandtrack Sound in Nashville.The WCPM team partnered with David Kotch of Criterion Acoustics to redesign SkyLight Studios, a former mastering lab located in Hollywood.

But first, dessert. Jana Kramer spent what would have been her sixth wedding anniversary in Miami with friends and commemorated the occasion with a cheeky sweet.

Rutherford County Fire & Rescue; all are presumed dead. The group took off in a Cessna Citation 501 from Smyrna Airport, south of Nashville, on Saturday morning, per authorities. The plane crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, Tennessee, at about 11 a.m.

Actor Joe Lara has died in a plane crash near Nashville. He was 58.