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The Academy of Country Music Awards left fans stunned when, for the first time in its history, the evening ended in a tie between Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett for entertainer of the year. While the award is a hallowed one among country musicians and fans alike, some fans weren’t terribly pleased to see it …

Bout to show up at your party @ACMawards 😺 pic.twitter.com/ekNJfv4hci — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) September 13, 2020 Taylor Swift will perform at the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards on Wednesday, marking her first performance at a country show in seven years. The Grammy winner will perform her single, “Betty,” from her eighth studio album, …

The mayor of Los Angeles told residents to unplug their appliances, shut off their air conditioners, and turn on a fan after 3 p.m. Look at this… All I know is that out here in the sticks, out here in hick country, out here in the hinterlands, my 3,200 square foot home (if you count …

Although the Country Music Association Awards themed its 2019 telecast around women’s contributions to the genre, 2020 is turning out to be the year in which that’s actually born out in the nominations. In the slate of nominees announced Tuesday morning, female artists made up two or sometimes three of the five contenders in nearly …

Musician Jay DeMarcus is best known for hit songs such as “Life Is a Highway” with his band, Rascal Flatts. They’ve sold over 23 million albums and won more than 40 awards as the decade’s most-honored country group. Now, along with his wife Allison, a former beauty queen, he’s added a reality show to his …

Legends — and legendary ‘fits — never die. Shania Twain is crushing the maximalist fashion game once again in a rebooted version of her unforgettably flamboyant leopard-print ensemble, which made its fierce debut in 1997’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much.” In a video released Thursday by masked minstrel Orville Peck, the 54-year-old queen of pop-country …

National treasure Dolly Parton has made a rare political statement, coming out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Parton, 74, made the statement to Billboard in an expansive feature published Thursday. “I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen,” she said of the protests that erupted across the United …

Luke Bryan has addressed the name change of the country band Lady A — formerly known as Lady Antebellum. In June, the band reconsidered the moniker “after much personal reflection” and conversations with “closest Black friends” because the word “Antebellum” refers to a period of time, “which includes slavery,” they said. The change came during …

A country music star moved into a new home only to get lost on his own property for seven hours before having to call the cops to be rescued. Singer Kane Brown posted of the incident, “I moved into a new house. I own 30 acres of 3,000 around me. I told my wife I …

Garth Brooks has removed himself from the running for Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards this year and it’s all because of a tweet. The country music superstar announced via a virtual press conference Wednesday that a tweet made him come to the magnanimous decision. “There’s one tweet in there that …