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The video for hardcore country-rock artist Tim Montana‘s “Mostly Stoned” couldn’t get more weird. And that’s before a title card flashes on the screen telling you that it was directed by Charlie Sheen. But Montana revels in the unorthodox. His songs can veer toward old-school country or screamy metal (think …

After the cheeky hook-up song “Knockin’ Boots,” Luke Bryan drops a hook-up single that aims to be more mature, “What She Wants Tonight.” Written by Bryan with Ross Copperman, Hillary Lindsey, and Jon Nite, the slow-burner casts the narrator as helpless to the titular woman’s desires. “She walks up, velvet …

The Wood Brothers examine a woman breaking out of a harmful relationship and starting over in the new song “Alabaster.” It’s the first release from the trio’s new album Kingdom in My Mind, due out January 24th. Much of the music on Kingdom in My Mind evolved out of studio …

Lauren Alaina finds some peace in the wake of an acute loss in the new song “The Other Side,” written as a tribute to her late stepfather Sam Ramker. On Monday’s episode of Dancing With the Stars, Alaina and her partner Gleb Savchenko performed a well-received routine to the song. …

This week’s installment of Walking the Floor finds Kendell Marvel returning to the show for a third time, having most recently chatted with podcast host Chris Shiflett during an episode recorded backstage at Dierks Bentley’s Seven Peaks Festival. The pair’s newest conversation revolves around Solid Gold Sounds, the solo album …

Earlier in 2019, Ken Burns and his Florentine Films collaborators Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey took a whirlwind bus trip that whisked them around and across the entire state of Tennessee in a few short days. Their itinerary included several places with significant ties to the history of country music: …

Brandy Zdan explored indie-pop atmospherics to great effect on 2018’s Secretear. Now the Canadian-born singer-guitarist is following up the LP with what she’s calling her “Cover Single Series” — a collection of cover songs that Zdan has been weaving into her live show for the past two years. Up first …

“Anyone have a Triple A card?” asks Midland‘s Mark Wystrach, climbing into the middle row of a Pepto-Bismol-colored vintage Cadillac limo that’s currently parked outside of a hip East Nashville bed and breakfast called, appropriately, Urban Cowboy. Though it looks impossibly cool, the interior of this thing is more aging …

The Georgia Tourism Board should cut Brent Cobb a check. His three-part Come Home Soon video series presents the Peach State in all its natural beauty, culminating with the stunning third installment, filmed at Providence Canyon State Park, premiering today. Appropriately, Cobb performs “Providence Canyon,” the title track to his …

“Burning House” singer Cam has released her latest track, a stripped down rendition of Christine and the Queens synth-pop hit “La Marcheuse.” Cam, who sings the entire song in French, shared some information about the track this morning along with the striking single art. “Recorded a country version of my …