When a historic Red Dirt reunion brought 200,000 fans to Stillwater, one journalist skipped it—and then threw shade from the sidelines. Here’s why gatekeeping, ego, and elitist hot takes are hurting the very community we claim to serve. This one’s personal, and I’m saying it with my whole chest.
With 28 country songs on the Billboard Hot 100, it’s official: country music is back, and it’s thriving in every corner—even New York City! Are we seeing a new 90s-style country boom?
Jelly Roll’s non-stop releases and appearances are a testament to his talent and hustle, but there’s a fine line between staying relevant and overloading his fans—and himself.
An “industry plant” is an artist who seems to have been created, groomed, or heavily promoted by major music industry players like record labels, producers, or management companies, but presented to us as if they emerged organically from the grassroots scene.Read on to find out more about the plague of plants in today’s music industry ecosystem…
Avenged Sevenfold, Evanescence, Disturbed, A Day To Remember, Slipknot and Lamb of God top the bill when Rocklahoma returns to Rockin Red Dirt Ranch in Pryor, Oklahoma, Aug. 30-Sept. 1.
This story originally appeared in The Tennessean Forty-eight hours before rocking Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park to close out 2023, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Rickey Medlocke and Johnny Van Zant were seated in the shadow of the Grand Ole Opry at the Nashville Palace honky-tonk’s dance hall. Though not original members of the seminal Southern rock…