Country Music Association

This Week's Five Best Concerts: Pistol Annies, Thrill Jockey, Austra, And More

If you're thumbing through the print edition (God bless your soul), it's hard to miss the three pages of recommended events that open the issue. Because the internet makes those a little less obvious, here are our five picks for concerts this week. Tomorrow, the Pistol Annies come to Midtown's Term ... More >>

HELL ON HEELS

Pistol Annies fire up Terminal 5

TEARDROPS 
ON HIS GUITAR

Glen Campbell says goodbye to NYC

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

O come all ye faithful to Z100's Jingle Ball

The Band Perry, Taylor Swift Win Big At Last Night's Country Music Awards

Last night, country music's biggest stars (not to mention welcome outsiders like Lionel Richie and Kenny Loggins, who joined Male Vocalist of the Year Blake Shelton for a performance of "Footloose") convened in Nashville for the CMA's annual awards show. By the time hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Un ... More >>

Summer Guide: Don't Take Brad Paisley to the Airport Strip Club

The country star likes six strings, not G-strings. Plus, summer music picks

Gwyneth Paltrow's "Country Strong" is Maybe Kind Of Good

Gwyneth Paltrow's voice and stage presence have come a long way since Duets in 2000. Sure, it was a movie about karaoke, but her creepy, um, duet with her film-father Huey Lewis was a little bit hard to watch and not just because they were singing about one night stands. Last night, Paltrow redeeme ... More >>

Live: Miranda Lambert Praises Campfire Culture, Shows Off Engagement Ring at Terminal 5

Mikey AyersiPhone paparazzi Miranda Lambert Terminal 5 Wednesday, September 29 Better than: a sixpack of Miller after gettin' that first buck of the season Of all things to prop up a mike stand, a simulated shotgun works pretty well, as country music's current queen Miranda Lambert showed off du ... More >>

Watch Candid Footage Of Taylor Swift Freaking Out Upon Learning Of Her Four CMA Nominations

In her pajamas, even. While it's somewhat disingenuous maybe for someone so wildly successful to feign shock at being short-listed for, say, Entertainer of the Year, that apparently unfeigned shock is nonetheless wildly entertaining. Unless you are one of her dogs, in which case it's a little dist ... More >>

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Starring Fountains of Sticky, White Goo

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

The Curious Case of Lil Wayne

Celebrating Mr. Carter's best means tolerating his worst

The Death of the Billboard Music Awards

The Wholesome Thrills of Small-Town Porn

Sugarland's tales of red-state grandeur resonate even if you've never made a casserole

The CMAs: A Running Diary

Live: Kenny Chesney vs. Jack White

Academy of Country Music Awards: A Running Diary

Miranda Lambert and the Nature of Pop

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

The CMA Awards: A Running Diary

Music

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Ostracism

Live: Vince Gill, the Most Unpretentiously Pretentious Guy Ever

The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary

The CMT Music Awards: A Running Diary

Country Music Grapples With Race

Country Superstar Brad Paisley Gives New York Another Try

Backstage at the Country Music Awards

Country's Right-Wing Hell-Raisers Montgomery Gentry Destroy New York

Country in the City

As Nashville invades New York, a home-grown hayseed scene thrives beneath the CMA's radar

Striving for Ease

Randy Travis Stays With Us

Ah Know How To Undress Me

Sensitive Maleness in CMT's Countdown

Forever Old

NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year

Wynton in Wranglers