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How to Watch Kacey Musgraves’ ‘Star-Crossed: The Film’
See below for how to watch Star-Crossed: The Film online, and how to see Kacey Musgraves live in concert. How to Watch Kacey Musgraves’ Star-Crossed: The Film Online for Free Star-Crossed: The Film will be available to stream on Paramount+ starting September 10. If you don’t have a Paramount+ account, the streaming service offers a seven-day free trial for new customers, which allows you to watch Star-Crossed for free online the same day. After your first week, Paramount+ costs $4.99 a month for its Essential plan. The monthly Essential plan does include ads, but you can pay $9.99 for Paramount+’s Premium package, which also includes a seven-day free trial and is mostly ad-free. Both plans include access to stream Kacey Musgraves’&nbs...
Nashville Music Manager Stan Moress Dies at 83
Moress founded Nashville-based management and consulting firm the Consortium in 2001, alongside partners Bernard Porter, Al Schiltz and Mike Martinovich. Among those artists The Consortium repped over the years were Joe Diffie, Sherrié Austin, Billy Ray Cyrus and Catherine Britt. In 2005, Moress, Schiltz and Martinovich helped launch Midas Records Nashville. Moress’ clients and colleagues remember him as a generous spirit, who often felt like a family member and was always willing to go out of his way to help. Black, a Moress management client in the early 1990s, tells Billboard, “He always had a special place in my heart. We tended to be a comedy team when together, he the straight man, and I the jokester. We always had fun and I held him in great esteem. On top...
Brandi Carlile Performs Gorgeous Cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock”: Watch
Brandi Carlile has always been upfront about her love for Joni Mitchell, often playing songs by the folk legend onstage while on tour. Over the weekend, though, Carlile played a particularly special set for SiriusXM’s Small Stage concert series where she broke out a show-stopping cover of “Woodstock,” an underrated Mitchell song from her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon. Watch a replay of her rendition below. For her take on the cut, Carlile and her bandmates drew “Woodstock” out into a nearly six-minute-long scorcher. Over with some wavering keyboard notes, Carlile opened the Mitchell song with subdued gusto and heart — which is as to be expected, after all, considering she’s famous for putting on incredible live sets — before her bandmates kicked in with big country rock guitar riffs and ...
Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall to Lead ‘Austin City Limits’ 47th Season
Austin City Limits will launch its 47th season on Oct. 2, welcoming Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall for the new season’s hour-long premiere episode. Leading into the October premiere, Austin City Limits shared a video clip of the trio performing “In His Arms,” from the May-released collaborative project The Marfa Tapes, a set of acoustic songs written and recorded in tiny Marfa, Texas. “If it gets weird up here, it’s because we’ve all been friends for like, over 20 years,” Lambert says in the clip of the Austin City Limits performance. “I’ve grown up watching Jack since I was 15, been going to every club around Texas, following him around, one of my heroes. And Jon the same, we met … almost 20 years ago. He just sings...
CMA & ACM Respond to Bobby Bones’ Claims About ‘Manipulated’ Awards Show Voting
“For example, a Luke Combs song could be No. 1 for 10 weeks, but because of politics, the label will go, ‘Ah, let’s let somebody else get in that spot,’ and they’ll move Luke Combs to No. 2 and he’ll sit there for a few weeks. The same thing with like a Maren Morris.” Billboard reached out to several label representatives regarding Bones’ statements, though no labels would comment on Bones’ statements as of press time. On Tuesday (Aug. 31), Bones returned to TikTok to say he was “surprised at all the controversy” his comments were causing and to highlight a story from today’s Country Insider that featured some anonymous radio sources agreeing with Bones’ assessment, while others disagreed or said the issue was far more complicated. In a separate TikTok po...
Kane Brown & Nelly Bond Over Being Seen as ‘The Bad Guy’ in ‘CMT Crossroads’ Clip: Exclusive
“Like a lot of the country people,” Brown clarifies. “Traditional hip-hop looked at me like I was the bad guy,” Nelly responded. Since CMT Crossroads debuted in 2002, the series has become known not only for smart musical pairings of country artists with musicians from other genres, but also for bringing fans deeper into the creativity and mutual respect the artists have for music. The conversation with Brown, Breland and Nelly showcases a vulnerable, honest moment between the hitmakers on CMT Crossroads: Nelly & Friends, which also features Blanco Brown and Florida Georgia Line. Several of the performances featured during the 60-minute CMT Crossroads special will highlight Nelly’s collaborative, country-inspired Heartland EP, which came out on Friday...
Kacey Musgraves Announces 2022 Headlining Tour
Kacey Musgraves has announced a headlining tour in support of her newly announced album, star-crossed. The 15-city arena tour, officially titled “star-crossed: unveiled,” launches in January. Over the proceeding month, she’ll play shows at major venues including the United Center in Chicago, TD Garden in Boston, Madison Square Garden in New York City, and American Airlines Center in Dallas before wrapping up with a gig at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on February 20th. King Princess and MUNA will provide support for the entirety of the tour. Tickets go on sale starting Thursday, September 9th via Ticketmaster. Advertisement Related Video star-crossed, Musgraves’ fifth studio album to date, arrives officially on September 10th. In anticipation, she’s shared the album’s title track and a song ...
In-Demand Songwriter Natalie Hemby Steps Into Her Own With ‘Pins and Needles’
Now, with her Oct. 8 debut for Fantasy/Concord, Pins and Needles, Hemby is fully stepping into her own as an artist. “This is over 20 years of pent-up artist frustration,” she says of the new set, with a laugh. “The interesting part was that the label just loved all the songs. Kudos to Fantasy. They could have not signed me during a pandemic, because people were scaling back and tours were being halted — but they said, ‘No, we’re doing this deal.’” The album was produced and mixed by Hemby’s husband Mike Wrucke (Lambert, Pistol Annies), and includes several songs she co-wrote with artists including Lambert (“Banshee,” “It Takes One to Know One”) and Morris (“Heart Condition”) — but also songs co-written with Daniel Tashian and Rosi Golan (the...
Kenny Malone, Prolific Nashville Session Drummer, Dies at 83
“He expanded the vocabulary of Nashville drumming, and was always an innovator who invented his own unique style of hand drumming, often combining sticks and brushes with hand percussion to create a unique sound and feel that left lots of space for other instruments and the vocals,” Pomeroy said in a statement. Malone, from Denver, enlisted in the Navy and served 14 years, playing as a musician in the U.S. Navy Band. He came to Nashville in 1970 and started working with famed Nashville producer “Cowboy” Jack Clement and soon became one of the most utilized drummers and percussionists in town. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum said he worked on records by Bobby Bare, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, George Jones, Barbara Mandrell, Charley Pride, Kenny Rogers, Dottie ...
Garth Brooks Explains Why He Once Signed Autographs for 23 Hours
In 1996, Fan Fair was celebrating its 25th anniversary, with an artist lineup that included Martina McBride, Trace Adkins, Shania Twain and Billy Ray Cyrus, among others. Brooks dropped by the event unannounced, found a vacant area near a livestock building and began talking to fans. A crowd swelled around Brooks, who stayed and signed autographs for 23 hours and 10 minutes without a break. The following year, Brooks would play his now-legendary concert at New York City’s Central Park to an audience of over one million people. Though the relationship Brooks has with his fans is well known, the 59-year-old superstar told Midland that he had another motive for the marathon signing session. “I’d love to tell you that it was just done out of love and stuff but the real story ...
William Shatner Enlists Joe Jonas and Brad Paisley for Spoken Word Collabs: Stream
Boldly going where no man has gone before, William Shatner has dropped a pair of spoken word singles featuring none other than Joe Jonas and Brad Paisley. Stream them below. On “Clouds of Guilt,” the famed actor waxes poetic about the various ways guilt has impacted his life as the JoBro provides the song’s melodic hook. “Feel guilty when I leave/ Feel guilty when I stay/ Feel guilty when I’m down and out and when I’m overpaid/ Feel guilty when I’m right/ Feel guilty when I’m wrong/ I even feel a pinch of guilt just singing you this song,” he laments over Jonas’ peppy, doo-wop-style backing vocals. Meanwhile, his collab with Paisley, titled “So Far From the Moon,” finds the legendary thespian reflecting the 1969 cancelation of Star Trek and his divorce from first wife Gloria Rand over honk...
Kacey Musgraves Shares New Single “justified”: Stream
Now that the news has broken about Kacey Musgraves’ fourth studio album, star-crossed, the country-pop icon is wasting no time revving up the excitement surrounding the follow-up to her massively acclaimed Golden Hour. Today, Musgraves has shared the album’s second single, “justified,” along with its accompanying music video. star-crossed chronicles the heartbreak that resulted from Musgraves’ recent divorce, with much of its lyrics and artistic direction informed by one paradigm-shifting mushroom trip she took. “justified” feels right in line with Musgraves’ typical homey, slightly-psychedelic aesthetic, of course exhibiting the same heart-on-her-sleeve songwriting that she’s become so well known for. Check it out below. “justified” follows the release of star-crossed’s title track earlie...
