Anthony Bourdain Bemoans The Rise of EDM Over Live Music
On last week's episode of CNN's Emmy Award-winning program Parts Unknown hosted by Anthony Bourdain, the well-known chef spouted off about the state of live music and EDM's involvement when touring Las...
View ArticleCountry Music Writes A Letter to Jamey Johnson
Jamey. Jamey Johnson. Yeah, hey man, it's your old pal country music here. Sorry to bother you like this out of the blue and everything, but it looks like I've kind of gotten myself into a mighty big...
View ArticleJerrod Niemann’s “Donkey” (Review & Rant)
Country is the only genre of music on planet Earth where the midlife crises of its artists play out on the airwaves and populate the very top of the charts, effecting the sonic path of the entire...
View ArticleCountry Music Entering A New Remix Era
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the remix era of country music, where the worst "country" songs get regurgitated with an overlayed rapper or EDM twist, repackaged to terrorize the eardrums of the...
View ArticleAlmost Every Major Country Artist Now Has Same Talent Agency
Just think about this for a second: Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Brady Paisley, Miranda Lambert, and Rascal Flatts are all now managed by the same exact...
View ArticleBefore They Sucked: Big Country Stars at the Start
When you look back at some of the early songs, early albums, and even the early image of some of country's biggest current stars, it can stimulate downright culture shock. Of course styles change...
View ArticleMono-Genre Watch: Pitbull Riles the World Cup
When it comes to mixing music forms with no regard for the autonomy or integrity of the respective genres, Latin rapper Pitbull is popular music's prime culprit. As evidenced in the massive hit...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Is Leaving Country. But Will Country Let Her?
Welp, that's that. Gauging from the comments made in Rolling Stone's current country music special edition by the CEO of Big Machine Records aka the Country Music Antichrist Scott Borchetta, we can now...
View ArticleThe Worst “Country” Songs of 2014 So Far
The middle point of 2014 finds so called "bro-country" in full throat, with its death grips around the neck of the country music genre and threatening to throttle the very life out of it with no prayer...
View ArticleWhy Jerrod Niemann’s “Donkey” Was His Waterloo
When you live by the bit, you die by the bit. And Jerrod Niemann has just been bitten in the ass by a "Donkey." Early on when you looked at the amount of "adds" the song was getting on radio, it did...
View ArticleCountry Is Now Pop: Sam Hunt’s “Leave The Night On”
This is not a review, this is a warning. Sam Hunt's "Leave The Night On" is a potential swan song for what we define as country music today, more than any song that has come before. I know, you're...
View ArticleJason Aldean’s “Burnin’ It Down” (A Roast)
Oh Jason, this is most unfortunate. Since Jason Aldean has re-entered the single life after getting caught in a douche-soaked nightclub on the Sunset Strip handling up on some American Idol...
View Article55 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 ArticleA Bigger Concern for Country Than Some Festivals Going Belly Up
As Bro-Country was on the rise, think pieces all across media questioned the sustainability of such shallow music. And it turns out they were right. Florida Georgia Line and others brought throngs of...
View ArticleCurb Records is Trying to Mount a Comeback
When LeAnn Rimes and Hank Williams III fought very public battles with the label, people chalked it up to a couple of artists with declining careers who couldn't handle being professional. But after...
View ArticleThe Worst Country Songs of 2016 So Far
Every year we wonder if it can get any worse, and while there are positive signs for country music's future all over the place, the bad stuff somehow continues to only get worse. The only saving grace...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s WORST Songs of 2016
Everywhere we turn, there are signs that the tide is turning in country music for the better. Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson are turning the tables on the awards shows, a new generation of...
View ArticleLee Brice Is Back. And “Boy” Is Worth The Hype
Lee Brice has built his career not off of catchy singles, but songs that straddle the lines between emotional substance and commercial aptitude, making him a bright spot of Music Row, despite a few...
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....
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