Back in the day when an album was gold (500,000 copies), or platinum (1,000,000 copies), it often meant albums shipped to stores, which could have promptly been shipped right back. With Soundscan, you could tally exactly what an album sold, and it seem t

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Some 16 IU Cheerleaders from the two squads assisted with SuperProCamp's

They also meet a young drummer who had already changed his name from Frank Edwin Wright III to Tre Cool. Billie Joe Armstrong turns 40 today. It's a milestone for the California native and high-school dropout

It's probably as difficult to make unprepossessing art as it is to give vent to the kind of egotistical expression that knocks you over the head with its demands, and no band operating in popular music is more modest than Lambchop. Throughout their 20-ye

(AP) -- The guitar, an iconic symbol of Nashville's music scene, is beginning to play second fiddle as a visual icon for the city.Musical notes and symbols are emerging in Nashville's logo as city promoters seek to illustrate the variety of sounds here.T

On Sunday, Lady Antebellum surprisingly stole the Grammy for Best Country Album in a night that, until then, had looked like Taylor Swift landslide. On Tuesday opening act Darius Rucker — in another country-fried surprise — nearly stole the sold-out Ener

Today marks the release of JT Hodges new single, 'Goodbyes Made You Mine,' but in the spirit of Valentine's Day, the Texas-born singer is offering fans a second romantic song, free of charge. It's a solo acoustic video performance of Garth Brooks' 'The D

The sound of the surf, the silence of a high Cascades lake, the touchdown roar of an Autzen crowd — that’s what I hear when I listen for Oregon, which turns 153 today. But what is it that the songwriters hear? Traditionally, I commemorate our great state

Since 2010, Jerrod Niemann has seen plenty of central Pennsylvania. There’ve been three concert performances. Then there was that blizzard he blew in on during a radio promotional tour. “The regional record rep picked me up in Baltimore in a (Toyota) Pri

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ELIZABETH CANNON: President of U of C Newly arrived from Prince Edward Island as a young engineering student at the U of C, Elizabeth Cannon immediately fell in love with the Stampede and all it had to offer. But her best memories came years later as a y

Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Kings of Leon, Thompson Square, OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, former GAP Band frontman Charlie Wilson, Vince Gill and even Kanye West - they all have ties that bind them to the Sooner State. Oklahoma transpl

Christian singer Brandon Heath doesn't need to win a Grammy on Sunday to thank his biggest supporter publicly. She's going with him to the show. The 33-year old Heath is taking his former high school choir teacher, Bobby Jean Frost. Heath is up for three

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Christian singer Brandon Heath doesn't need to win a Grammy on Sunday to thank his biggest supporter publicly. She's going with him to the show. The 33-year old Heath is taking his former high school choir teacher, Bobby Jean Fros

NASHVILLE, Tenn. She's going with him to the show. The 33-year old Heath is taking his former high school choir teacher, Bobby Jean Frost. H

A provincial court judge on Friday threw a monkey wrench into the Premier Christy Clark’s plans to televise courtroom proceedings of Stanley Cup riot cases. Canada's first foray into the Davis Cup World Group since 2004 is now a best-of-three affair. Jer

Randy Phillips has signed a new contract to remain the president & CEO of AEG Live, the position he has held with the live entertainment division of Los Angeles-based AEG since joining the company in 10 years ago. The five-year deal, Phillips' third with

George Strait and Martina McBride, on a bill together on Saturday at Amway Center, are an old-school combination in a country landscape now populated by the Jason Aldeans and Miranda Lamberts. Yet McBride, whose career started in the midst of the Garth B

They were nominated at last year’s Grammy Awards for Best Country Song, but were beat out by Lady Antebellum's “Need You Now." However, that didn’t discourage The Band Perry from pushing on and earning a spot on this year’s Best New Artist list for the 5