Music Country

Matt Rollings may not be a household name to many, but in music circles, he’s piano-playing royalty. The Grammy-winning producer and musician releases his new album, Matt Rollings Mosaic, in August, recruiting an all-star list of guests from Vince Gill to Alison Krauss to record original songs and standards like …

Luke Combs and Maren Morris are among the all-star group of artists set to perform during SiriusXM’s Highway Finds Fest, a virtual event that gets underway this Friday, July 17th. Additional performers include Sam Hunt, Kelsea Ballerini, and Carly Pearce. Named for SiriusXM’s popular country channel the Highway, the Highway …

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. Dave Hause featuring Amythyst Kiah …

Bluegrass and roots musicians will all perform at the new multi-day streaming event Porch Pride: A Bluegrass Pride Queer-antine Festival, starting June 27th. The event takes place on the days when San Francisco Pride was originally scheduled; like many Pride celebrations in 2020, it’s since been canceled because of COVID-19. …

Willie Nelson‘s “Hello Walls” takes on new meaning in the age of social distancing and quarantine. The country music legend and his sons Lukas and Micah recorded an at-home version of the tune, a 1961 hit for Faron Young, for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Filmed at their Luck …

Jesse Malin was supposed to be onstage at the U.K.’s massive Glastonbury festival this year. Instead, he’s doing solo shows every Saturday in his East Village apartment, trying to raise money for his band and crew whose incomes have taken a beating by the coronavirus pandemic. For the meantime, he’s …

There’s been an outpouring of grief for John Prine since news broke that the legendary songwriter died from complications related to coronavirus on Tuesday night. Dixie Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines took to Instagram to pay tribute to him, covering “Angel From Montgomery.” Maines sang the classic joined by her two …

Update: The inaugural Campfire Gathering set for March 16th and 17th in Dripping Springs, Texas, has been postponed. Organizers said in a statement that they are committed to rescheduling: “The team is currently hard at work to secure new dates for later this year with more information forthcoming. All tickets …

Luke Combs has extended his headlining What You See Is What You Get Tour through December 2020, adding several new dates with a reconfigured in-the-round stage setup “I wanted to figure out a way for more of y’all to have an opportunity to come, so we’re putting the stage in …

Appropriately, for a song about the disappearance of childhood, the video accompanying performer Early James’ “High Horse” is set in a desolate spot: Terlingua, Texas, a largely abandoned mining town near the Rio Grande and Mexico. In the Tim Hardiman-directed clip, scenes of abandoned structures and rocky, tumbleweed-strewn terrain are …