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“My greatest heroes have really paired their music with humanitarian efforts, activism, so I wanted to do that right away,” Brandi Carlile says in a mini-documentary depicting her work with her own charitable Looking Out Foundation. The short film, premiering on Rolling Stone Country, chronicles Carlile’s visit during the holidays …

Years before recording her latest album Meet Me at the River with countrypolitan monolith Fred Foster, Dawn Landes cut her teeth in Louisville, New York City and Branson, Missouri. It was an unusual country-music education, shaped by the towns she called home and the local music that filled her stereo. …

Jake Owen may not expect to see his name in a hall of fame, but it was at least there in large print on the backdrop of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! concert stage on Tuesday, where the Florida native stopped by to play his ambling ode to local legends, “Down …

Painter, poet and musician Joni Mitchell turns 75 years old today. Her artistry has encompassed pop, rock, folk and jazz, earning varying degrees of praise and criticism, especially for her more experimental, jazz-centric works, but she remains, unquestionably, one of the most influential songwriters of the past 50 years. Born …

In the 44-year history of Austin City Limits, no artist has personified the music series’ eclectic, freewheeling spirit more fully than Willie Nelson. Having launched the pilot episode of the long-running PBS show with a performance in the KLRN (now KLRU) studio on the University of Texas campus in 1974, …

Stephen Stills, Ryan Bingham, Hayes Carll and the Flatlanders were among the artists performing at a Get Out the Vote rally in Irving, Texas, on Tuesday night in support of U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke. The concert also included some special guests, from Margo Price to Nathaniel Rateliff, both of …

Jason Isbell initially reached a broader audience as a third guitarist and sometimes songwriter in the Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers, adding a fresh perspective and voice to their albums Decoration Day and The Dirty South. Those rock credentials were on full display for the second night of Isbell’s 2018 …

Superstar award-winners and multi-nominated fan favorites are among the first performers announced for next month’s 52nd annual CMA Awards. Past CMA Entertainers of the Year Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban, along with four-time Female Vocalist trophy winner Carrie Underwood, who co-hosts the ceremony with Brad Paisley for the …

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. . .which may be why George Strait isn’t ready to pull the plug on his Strait to Vegas residency anytime soon. Launched in 2016, the King of Country’s run of sold-out shows in Sin City just got a renewal. Strait, who will play …

A few nights before Will Hoge left for tour, he got out the iron and some letter decals, and started pressing T-shirts. “One of them said ‘Nikes Over Nazis,’” he tells Rolling Stone, sitting at an East Nashville sandwich shop a few hours before his bus is supposed to hit …