New Artist Spotlight: Tate Stevens

By Bob Doerschuk © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Tate Stevens’ triumph on Season 2 of The X Factor confirms that Country Music is stronger than ever. More important, it heralds the arrival of a performer whose music is in step with what America wants to hear. Read our [...] Read More

Top 10 Country Tweets of the Week

Country music stars sure love Twitter! This week, country stars react to the week’s tragedies, Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift have encounters of the giraffe kind, Joe Nichols celebrates his daughter’s first birthday and Blake Shelton has some advice for Brad Paisley. Here are our picks for this week’s Top 10 Country Tweets Of The [...] Read More

Lee Brice, Randy Houser & Jerrod Niemann to Headline Country On The Beach

Lee Brice, Randy Houser and Jerrod Niemann will triple headline the final night of Country On The Beach in Key West Florida. Scheduled for October 5-8, county music will take over the beaches of Key West to benefit the T.J. Martell Foundation, the music industry’s largest foundation that funds leukemia, cancer and AIDS research. Montgomery [...] Read More

Randy Houser Gifts ‘The Bobby Bones Show’ With A Live Goat

Randy Houser gifted Nashville’s WSIX ‘The Bobby Bones Show’ morning crew with their very own live goat during his visit to the station on March 1. The crew had been discussing the YouTube video of screaming goats spliced with Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” video and once Randy got wind of their affinity [...] Read More

Jake Owen & Gary Allan To Headline ACM Weekend at Fremont Street Experience

The Academy of Country Music and Las Vegas have announced ACM Weekend at Fremont Street Experience will take place April 5-6 with all-star concerts headlined by Gary Allan and Jake Owen. Following the previously announced ACM Party for a Cause Festival, this ultimate after party in downtown Las Vegas will also include performances by Randy [...] Read More