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The first round of performers has been revealed for the 51st CMA Awards, with nominees Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert andChris Stapleton leading the charge. Also appearing will be 16-time CMA winner Alan Jackson, who – along with songwriter Don Schlitz and the late Jerry Reed – …

LCD Soundystem brought a propulsive, cowbell-heavy version of “Tonite” to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday. The song appeared earlier this year on the band’s first ever Number One album, American Dream. “Tonite” is typical LCD Soundsystem. Lead singer James Murphy is simultaneously neurotic (“I never realized these artists thought so …

Bob Seger will release a new album, I Knew You When, on November 17th through Capitol Records. The record is dedicated to the Eagles‘ Glenn Frey, Seger’s longtime friend and collaborator, who died last year at age 67. I Knew You When contains Seger originals as well as multiple covers, …

Clearly, country music fans missed Shania Twain. The singer’s new album Now, her first in 15 years, debuted at Number One on the all-genre Billboard 200. With the equivalent of 137,000 copies sold in its first week, Now claimed both the all-genre top spot and the Number One position on …

Miley Cyrus‘ weeklong residency on The Tonight Show ended Friday with the singer and host Jimmy Fallon facing off in a “Lip Sync Battle” where Cyrus “sang” one of her new favorite songs and emulated Talking Heads‘ iconic “Once in a Lifetime” performance from the concert film Stop Making Sense. …

Rosanne Cash is among the artists featured on a new two-disc set, Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition, contributing a pair of centuries-old folk ballads, including the previously released “Barbara Allen” and a new recording of “The Parting Glass.” The 32 tracks on the album celebrate Appalachia‘s rich legacy …

The Eagleswill perform an invitation-only show at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee on October 29th. The concert is part of a partnership with SiriusXM, which will launch a limited-run Eagles Channel in mid-November. The Eagles will curate the programming on the station, while it will also broadcast …

Jason Aldean has released a new statement on the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, where he was performing when a gunman opened fire, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500. Posting on social media, Aldean expressed his grief and confusion over the tragedy, the …

Nikki Sixx, who was once declared clinically dead after overdosing on heroin at the height of Mötley Crüe’s fame, has penned an op-ed decrying the way the government is handling the United States’ opioid crisis. “Opioid abuse isn’t just making addicts sick, it’s making America sick,” he wrote in Los …

Investors will soon be able to purchase shares of Eminem‘s “My Name Is,” “Lose Yourself” and every other song he released from 1999 to 2013 on an exchange much like the stock market, at a minimum of $2,250. The rapper’s former production duo, the Funky Bass Team (aka FBT Productions), …