55 People Arrested, 22 Hospitalized at Keith Urban Concert
A total of 55 arrests and 46 medical incidents, including 22 people transported to hospitals, marred a Keith Urban concert event in Mansfield, Massachusetts Saturday (7-26) night at the Xfinity Center...
View ArticleMan Accused of Rape at Keith Urban Concert While Others Watch
According to the Sun Chronicle, 18-year-old concertgoer 18-year-old Sean Murphy raped a 17-year-old girl during the concert, while 15 or more concert attendees stood around and watched, many taking...
View ArticleThe Deal with Taylor Swift’s Aug. 18th Press Conference (A Spoiler)
Ooooh! Ahhhh! What forever will Taylor Swift announce when she holds her much-anticipated live Yahoo video stream and Q&A on August 18th at 5:00 PM Eastern???? .... Give me a break. The histrionics...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Jason Aldean’s “Old Boots, New Dirt”
Bad mouth Jason Aldean's previous accomplishments all you want, but heretofore his career has been defined by the defiant spirit of interior America's lost populous---disenfranchised and forgotten in...
View ArticleNo Really, Sam Hunt’s “Montevallo” is NOT Country
In a nutshell, Sam Hunt and Montevallo are not country, and this goes beyond opinion. So what that a couple of songs feature a banjo or a steel guitar. This arguably makes the offense even worse...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Worst Country Songs of 2014
The downward spiral for mainstream country music continues as evidenced by the following list of some of the most horrible offerings of 2014. With how terrible these selections are, you could consider...
View ArticleCountry Music’s Biggest Winners & Losers in 2014
2014 has been a year of great flux in country music, with some legendary successes by independent artists and new mainstream artists, and the shuffling out of other artists and the fumbling of what...
View ArticleMetro-Politan: Country Music’s New Cancer
The next menace was country rap, symbolized by Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" becoming the biggest country single in all of 2011. Then country rap gave way to Bro-Country---the most dominant torment...
View ArticleBillboard’s Country Charts at a Critical Crossroads
In 2015, the names and music residing at the top of Billboard's respective genre charts seems topsy-turvy and misguided. While Sam Hunt and his music that resembles next to nothing country is at the...
View ArticleSo How Are All of Those Trend Chasing Country Songs Doing Anyway?
If you're going to release a country music song that is likely to completely alienate the core of your fan base and cut against the grain of all of the long-standing principles of your career, it...
View ArticleCouple Responsible for Assault on Producer Dave Brainard Surrenders to Police
The brutal assault against country music producer Dave Brainard that occurred in the early morning hours Sunday, September 27th on Demonbreun Street in Nashville near Music Row, has finally been...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Worst Songs of 2013
So here you go ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the worst that 2013 had to offer in country music. As you might suspect, a list of mainstream country’s worst misdeeds in 2013 is mostly populated by...
View ArticleKe$ha & Pitbull Blend A Country Vibe Into “Timber” Hit
Back in July of 2012, I placed my chips on the square that said that sometime in the future pop star Ke$ha would be a big player in the country music realm, and that when she did, she would be huge....
View ArticleEDM Replacing Rap As The Scourge of Country Radio
Whereas 2013 seemed to be dominated by country rap singles, 2014 has so far been the story of EDM, or Electronic Dance Music. Though EDM and hip hop can sometimes be mistaken for each other, especially...
View ArticleEDM in Country Is Here with Avicii and Bobby Bones
EDM, or Electronic Dance Music, is making a big move into country music with one of the world's biggest EDM stars in Avicii, and he's doing it with the help of none other than notorious Clear Channel...
View ArticleJerrod Niemann Is No Willie or Waylon (A History Lesson)
Tuesday was the release of Jerrod Niemann's dumb new album High Noon, and before we've even had a chance to really delve into just how much of a mockery it makes of country music, Niemann's already out...
View ArticleSong Review –“Medicine” by Shakira feat. Blake Shelton
Shakira isn't just releasing this song in her home genre of pop. It has entered the Country Airplay charts this week at #57. "Medicine" is Shakira's "gone country" moment. All that said, "Medicine" as...
View ArticleJohnny Cash’s “Out Among The Stars” Tops Charts at #1
Johnny Cash is once again the big man in music as his recently-released "lost" album Out Among The Stars has come in at #1 on the Country Albums chart, and #3 on the all-encompassing album sales chart...
View ArticleRonnie Dunn’s “Peace, Love & Country Music”
To do Ronnie Dunn and his new album Peace, Love & Country Music justice, one doesn't need to write an album review, one needs to do something in between an in-depth psychoanalysis and a diagramming...
View ArticleAs Predicted, “Bro-Country” Is Now a Term of Endearment
Just as I've been saying ever since the term "bro-country" was widely adopted by naysayers of the current male-dominated laundry list phenomenon in country music, eventually it would be co-opted by the...
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