Americana is at a crossroads. As night fell at the 22nd edition of Bristol, Tennessee's Rhythm and Roots Reunion Festival, Allison Russell – a French Canadian woman, a champion of the queer community ...

Morgan Wallen was caught on video saying a racial slur. Oliver Anthony’s song “Rich Men North of Richmond” (2023) became a conservative anthem for right-wing politicians. Jason Aldean’s music video ...

We’ve made it to the first New Music Friday of February. The Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl are both right around the corner. As a result, there’s plenty of excitement to be had and planning to be ...

Kevin Russell, founder of the Sonoma County Americana Music Festival, heeding the musical adage “It Don’t Mean of Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing,” has expanded his event to two nights this year, ...

Nashville will be well represented at the 66th annual Grammy Awards, as artists from Music City once again dominated the country, Americana, folk and Christian awards — with a pair of artists getting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whatever the route taken, the results were often startling and signaled country’s largest advances yet as a musical genre built ...

The new movie "Twisters" was announced to the shock and surprise of the film and music marketplaces. Arguably, a significant reason that the film exists is because Americana and country music are ...

Country and Americana occupy two sides of the same coin, but the latter’s boom in the 1990s would not have happened if it weren’t for country music that came before. Let’s look at just a handful of ...

Adeem the Artist, the nonbinary songwriter who earned raves for their 2022 album, White Trash Revelry, is criticizing the Americana Music Association in an open letter published Wednesday night. The ...

Thanks to artists such as America and the Eagles, who blended country, rock 'n' roll, and American roots music, 1972 was a ...