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2012 Film Critics' Poll

The critics' picks from best film to best performers

Ten reasons Zac Brown Band will never win us over

It goes without saying that country fans and foes alike love Zac Brown Band in all their genre-bending glory, and many will no doubt turn out in droves to see them when they play the Target Center on Saturday.Fronted by a robust, bearded man by the name of, yes, Zac Brown, the band was established ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen, the Magnetic Fields, Big Boi, and more

It goes without saying that country fans and foes alike love Zac Brown Band in all their genre-bending glory, and many will no doubt turn out in droves to see them when they play the Target Center on Saturday.Fronted by a robust, bearded man by the name of, yes, Zac Brown, the band was established ... More >>

Zac Brown Band

It goes without saying that country fans and foes alike love Zac Brown Band in all their genre-bending glory, and many will no doubt turn out in droves to see them when they play the Target Center on Saturday.Fronted by a robust, bearded man by the name of, yes, Zac Brown, the band was established ... More >>

Lionel Richie pulls a Ray Charles, succeeds as country artist

This week in Eighties Superstars You Forgot All About News: Lionel Richie has gone country, and is actually quite good at it. Yes, that Lionel Richie. The Lionel Richie of the Commodores. The Lionel Richie who once Danced on Ceilings. This week, his country duets album Tuskegee -- named after the pl ... More >>

Mike Veeck championing stadium for St. Paul Saints

Team owner ready to move on from Midway

Toby Keith tops Forbes' "Highest-Paid" list

Photo by Nikki MillerGimme fifty mill and I'll sell you a Ford pickup truck!​No, he didn't out-earn Lady Gaga, who topped Forbes' list of highest-paid celebrities, but at his $50 million to her $4.5 billion, Toby Keith was at the top of the list of country artists, thanks in part to his chain ... More >>

Taylor Swift shoots 'em up and Shania Twain falls hard at the CMT Awards

Photo courtesy of Rick Diamond/Getty Images ​Country music fans were abuzz last night about the CMT Music Awards, but not necessarily on account of the winners.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Notes and photos from the field

Photos by Rick Mason​New Orleans Jazz & Heritage FestivalMay 6-8, 2011New Orleans Fair GroundsBY RICK MASONAs the searing Louisiana sun sagged through the gathering Delta dusk west of New Orleans' Fair Grounds last Sunday, the electric atmosphere in front of the towering Gentilly Stage arced a ... More >>

Miranda Lambert leads CMA nominations; Carrie Underwood scratches, yawns

Photo by Nikki Miller​This week, The Country Music Association announced the last of its nominations for the 2010 CMA Awards, set to air live on Wednesday, November 10th on ABC with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood returning as hosts for the third consecutive year. The awards, voted on by ind ... More >>

Top 5 Flying Fails

Flugtag proved that most folks aren't meant to fly​Hats off again to the pilot and crew of Team Major Trouble and the Dirty Dixies at Flugtag last weekend. They won the day and broke the world distance record with a contraption that looked like it should have crashed and sunk in the Mississipp ... More >>

Top 10 most ridiculous country songs of '09

The top ten most ridiculous songs in country. Songs that take literal lyricism to its most extreme. Songs about tractor and tractors and tractors.

Misanthropology: VHS nostalgists

Quit comparing it to vinyl albums. You're just being contrary.

While his ukulele gently weeps

Four years after becoming one of the first YouTube phenomenons, ukulele prodigy Jake Shimabukuro is still flying high

Wells Fargo craps out, cancels Vegas junket

Playing roulette after receiving bailout money would have been a bad PR move.

Wells Fargo: gambling with your bailout money

There is no gold at the end of Fool's Gold

Pity the Fools of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up

Please buy Clay Eals' wonderful Steve Goodman biography

Pity the Fools of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ten reasons to tune in country radio in 2006

The Great Pretender

Making a Good Impression with Celebrity Impersonator Dale Preston

Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul

A mid-year roundup of 2005 jazz highlights

6/6/2005: The Morning Communique

A mid-year roundup of 2005 jazz highlights

Gently Down The Stream

Singer-songwriter, music teacher, and new father Pete Hofmann sprouts his maritime lullabies behind locked doors

Gretchen Wilson: "Redneck Woman"

Singer-songwriter, music teacher, and new father Pete Hofmann sprouts his maritime lullabies behind locked doors

Shake Your Tits

Gogol Bordello, Peaches, and Neung Phak show us their good stuff

Will the Real Chris Danforth Please Stand Up?

Riding motorcycles, chasing cowboys, and investigating lounge singers: In search of the most elusive music geek in town

War of the Worlds

Kent Stephens's latest project is a play about a play about a rehearsal of a play about a novel

The People Formerly Known as Fans

Faced with a lawsuit from their idol, online Prince worshipers turn the tables on the Artist