Music

He’s put out a handful of solo albums in his day, but for much of his multi-decade career in Nashville, Phil Madeira has been more than content standing in the background. “I mean, I play with Emmylou Harris, man,” says the no-nonsense musician, who since 2008 has been the bandleader …

“Meet Me in Heaven” Those four words were inscribed on the tombstone of 14-year-old Jack Cash, the older brother of J.R. “Johnny” Cash, who was just 11 years old when Jack died following a horrific table-saw accident at a school workshop near the family’s Arkansas home. Later, in a career …

Dierks Bentley has a knack for choosing just the right party songs – propulsive, hands-in-the-air jams that are all but irresistible whether on the radio or on the stage. Perhaps surprisingly, the singer-songwriter considers his latest single, the empowering “Woman, Amen,” to be cut from that same cloth. “It’s a …

Brandon Lay was heading home from a gig one evening when a new melody swirled its way into his head. Without taking his eyes off the road, the country-rocker grabbed his iPhone and got to work. “I didn’t have any lyrics yet, so I was just humming, ‘yada yada yada’ …

Moving to Nashville was a bigger decision for Bex Chilcott than it is for most musicians. For Chilcott, who performs under the name Ruby Boots, heading to Music City meant more than simply leaving home. It meant leaving her native Australia and starting a new life more than 11,000 miles …

Steve Earle and his longtime band the Dukes return to the road this week with a series of City Winery shows across the country, leading up to next month’s launch of the Copperhead Road 30th Anniversary Tour. The newly announced trek will feature the songs from Earle’s third album, issued …

Pink delivered a strong rendition of the National Anthem ahead of Super Bowl LII Sunday night despite battling the flu. The singer, a self-professed Philadelphia Eagles fan, is from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, which is about 30 miles outside Philadelphia. Flanked by members of the military and an American flag, theBeautiful Traumasinger …

Rob Halford sings about fighting evil in the name of freedom in “Firepower,” the charging title track of Judas Priest‘s upcoming 18th studio album. The rest of the band, led by guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, commands the sort of chugging riffs that made the group metal avatars in …

A lawsuit filed in Israel accuses two New Zealand activists of causingLorde to cancel her planned performance in Tel Aviv, The New York Times reports. The suit may be the first to employ an Israeli law that forbids calling for boycotts of Israel. The suit, which was filed on behalf …

With a new music video released on Monday, breakout singer Luke Combs puts a dark, cinematic spin on his latest single, “One Number Away.” Co-written by Combs with Sammy Mitchell, Steven Andre Battey, Carlos Battey and Robert Williford, the ballad’s conflicted lyrics describe a guy struggling not to break down …