Country music

"I'm really sorry that in 2020, after YEARS of conversation of equal play, there are still some companies that make their stations play by these rules. It's unfair and it's incredibly disappointing," Ballerini wrote in part in her reply to the Michigan radio station.

McGraw has had three top 10 hits in the Hot 100 and has collaborated with artists Nelly and Faith Hill.

Carrie Underwood is hosting again but she'll be without her usual co-host this year.

At 85 years old, and with 52 top-10 Billboard country hits, Charley Pride's career has endured for decades.

Everyone that knew Kylie knew how much she loved her family and, beyond that, how much she loved music," Harris' publicist said in a statement to Billboard.

The annual CMA Awards bring some of country music's biggest stars to Nashville for a night of awards and performances.

Rice has topped the U.S. Billboard with hits such as "Eyes On You," "Ready Set Roll," "Gonna Wanna Tonight" and "Whisper."

The analysis, released Friday, provides data to support what artists and industry onlookers have long decried as a pervasive gender and age gap in the Nashville music scene.

The superstar didn't impress her fans much.

The former governor blamed "irrational vitriol" and "intolerant and vicious statements" for his near-immediate resignation.

The gun ownership rate in the U.S. is higher than anywhere else in the world.

They're both from Detroit and they have new albums. Can you blame her?

In a rare move for a country music star, Tim McGraw called for "commonsense" gun control.

Last night's CMA's performer talks to Newsweek about her new album.

While some applauded Linsey, a former finalist on "The Voice" in Season 8, for showing solidarity with protesters for social equality, many in the country music singer's fan base were not pleased.

Gentry was due to perform with his bandmate Eddie Montgomery on Friday evening in Medford.

Rhett speaks about embracing pop and how fatherhood has influenced his music.

Styx singer/guitarist Tommy Shaw talks to Newsweek about 'The Mission,' the band's classic-rock milestones and meeting the NASA guys who planned the Pluto flyby.

The late singer's instructive lessons for our time

Two of country music's biggest stars went from a one-off award show gig to becoming one of the top Southern comedy duos.

Strickland, 29, disappeared after going duck hunting.

The famed country trio will visit 40 North American cities this summer.

Highlights and blunders from country music's biggest night.

The country crooner/novelist/political rabble-rouser on his first album in three decades and why his grueling new tour is worth the pain.

The 'Fare Thee Well' concerts mark both the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead and their final performance together.

Immediately after Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, "Newsweek" wondered whether the band could survive without its intrepid leader.

Together, this pack of unconventional misfits formed the greatest improvisational band in American history.

In the wave of Grateful Dead publicity that followed Jerry Garcia's death, Newsweek offered novices a definitive starter list.

The lyrics show that often country singers yearn for change in their lives.

The 4.5-acre property to be converted into a center for eating disorder rehabilitation