Blake Shelton's Tornado Relief Concert Set for May 29 in Oklahoma City Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire and Vince Gill will perform during Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert, a telethon taking place Wednesday (May 29) at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. |
Carrie Underwood Donates $1 Million to Tornado Relief Efforts Carrie Underwood is donating $1 million from her current tour to the American Red Cross to assist in disaster relief efforts in Oklahoma. |
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Nashville Develops a Jewel A giant spaceship has landed in Nashville and finally opened its doors this week. |
Darius Rucker Talks About True Believers Darius Rucker's platinum-selling version of "Wagon Wheel" just hit No. 1 on the Billboard country airplay chart, which is good timing for Tuesday's (May 21) release of his third country album, True Believers. |
Additional CMT Music Awards Performers Revealed Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, Florida Georgia Line, George Strait, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum have been added to the list of performers at the 2013 CMT Music Awards taking place June 5 at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. |
Hangout Music Festival: A Summer Soundtrack When the bookers for the Hangout Music Festival were securing talent for this year's lineup, they must've been asking, "How would this sound at the beach?" |
HOT DISH: Kenny Chesney Rocks the Rafters in Dallas More than 45,000 fans at Cowboys Stadium near Dallas reached for the rafters as Kenny Chesney gave the fans two solid hours on a tour that started two months ago in Tampa, Fla. |
Lady Antebellum's Golden Cops Top Album Niche Sound the trumpets and clap your hands -- Lady Antebellum has struck gold. |
Miranda Lambert Grabs O Music Awards Nomination Miranda Lambert grabbed a nomination Thursday (May 16) when MTV, VH1 and CMT announced the categories and nominees for the fourth cycle of its O Music Awards. |
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: LeAnn Rimes Takes a Turn I first encountered LeAnn Rimes one day in the mid-1990s as one of my first visitors in my new job as Billboard's Nashville bureau chief. |