Ed Sheeran doesn’t use a lot of gear when he plays a stadium – just a few small acoustic guitars and a pedal board. Now, fans can own the same kind of guitars as Sheeran, who at a surprise appearance at the Anaheim, California NAMM instrument conference announced “Sheeran by …
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Growing up in a small North Carolina town, young Randy Bruce Traywick learned to play guitar by the time he was eight. Two decades — and a slight name change — later, Randy Travis was one of the most successful, and staunchly traditional, acts in country music. Now enshrined in …
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Lauren Jauregui performed a dreamlike version of her solo single “More Than That” on Tuesday’s Late Late Show With James Corden. The former Fifth Harmony member sang from within a massive floral archway, with roses even decorating her microphone stand. A pair of dancers twisted and twirled behind her on …
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The Lisbon-based producer Branko released a gleaming, propulsive single titled “Hear From You” this week. The track will appear on his forthcoming album Nosso. “Hear From You” is a country-hopping hybrid: Sango, an American beat-maker known for placements on albums from Tinashe, Bryson Tiller and Smino, is a co-producer, and …
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President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, made the rounds on the Sunday morning news shows and, true to form, the weird and loud Rudy did not disappoint. In an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper started a line of questioning about Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, …
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Cody Johnson is certain his time has come. The former prison guard and rodeo rider from Huntsville, Texas (pop. 38,000), has earned his chance at country music stardom the hard way, racking up streams and building a fan base as a true-blue independent for more than a decade. Now, with …
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UPDATE: Bryan has added an October 25th show at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, marking the fourth consecutive year that the singer has concluded his tour at that location. As surely as the seasons will change, Luke Bryan can be counted upon to hit the road during the warm weather …
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Public servants are supposed to serve every one of their constituents faithfully. Iowa’s 4th Congressional District is nearly monochromatic, but there are some voters of color living there. They should have a representative in Congress who isn’t a white supremacist. Frankly, so should the white residents. It is hardly radical …
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President Trump was scheduled to give the annual State of the Union address on January 29th. That’s no longer happening. As the government continues to operate under a partial shutdown, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday uninvited the president from delivering the address. Pelosi wrote that expending government resources …
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Photographed pages from early copies of Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson’s forthcoming book about the changing industry of journalism, circulated the internet this week, revealing several errors and inaccuracies. There were small, easy-to-correct errors, like …
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