Kacey Musgraves shares making-of ‘Star-Crossed’ documentary to mark album’s first birthday

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When Fox’s “Monarch” premiered to strong ratings following an NFL game on Sept. 11, there was a big sort-of-maybe cliffhanger: Can the Susan Sarandon character, touted as a series lead, really be as dead as she appeared to be at the end of the pilot? But there were other questions, too. Like: Will this be a series in which the characters are portrayed as having originated a lot of the big hits of country and pop, from “Family Tradition” to “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” to “Born This Way”? Will the middle American audience be completely down with a story that has an out lesbian character vying to become a country superstar? Do parallels with Naomi Judd’s story feel as eerie as we think they do? And did the pilot make all those millions of viewers want to come back when there’s no NFL lead-in?

Blake Shelton and Camila Cabello really got into it over this talented singer.

Kacey Musgraves is on the cover of Wonderland magazine’s Autumn/Fall 2022 issue and the photo spread is an homage to the Baz Luhrmann movie Romeo + Juliet.

Lorde, has released their debut single – check out ‘Threads’ below.After teasing the track yesterday (September 14), Indy has now shared the full, slow-burning electro-pop track.According to a press release, it’s inspired by the likes of Bon Iver, Kacey Musgraves and Tears For Fears as well as writers like Ocean Vuong, Frank O’Hara and Alex Dimitrov. Check out ‘Threads’ below: “‘Threads’ is about the fear of letting a relationship consume me,” Indy said. “I wrote this song when I was going through a very on-off relationship for years.

PlatinumGames‘ troubled live-service title Babylon’s Fall is set to shutter its official servers on February 28 2023, just a week before the game’s first anniversary.The game first launched on March 3 this year, and has struggled to find an audience – to the extent that the game’s servers will be closing just under a year into the game’s lifespan.The server closure was announced via the game’s official website, where the game’s development team stated that “it is with deep regret to inform you that we will be terminating the game’s service on Tuesday, 28 February 2023.”This, naturally, means that the team’s planned “large-scale updates” have been cancelled. However, Season 2 will end on November 29 as scheduled, and the final season will begin on the same day.As a thank you to players, PlatinumGames announced that it will be implementing as many events and other initiatives as possible before the end of the service.“Leading up until today, we received a lot of feedback from all our Sentinels through multiple surveys, official livestreams, our official Discord server and social media channels, which has been a great help to us in the development and operations teams,” said the developer.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The lineup for the 2023 Stagecoach Festival includes one very familiar veteran of the festivities, Luke Bryan, who will be making his fourth headlining appearance in the California desert, along with two stars who have made regular appearances at the festival but have moved up into headliner slots for the first time, Kane Brown and Chris Stapleton. Goldenvoice announced the performers and dates for the ’23 gathering Monday morning, just a little more than four months after the 2022 festival took place. The next fest will take place April 28 – 30, 2023, with passes going on sale Friday at 10 a.m. PT. Prices for passes range from $389 for advance general admission to $1,499 for the GA standing pit and $1,999 for prime reserved seating.

Country music star Lainey Wilson led Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards nominations. This year marks Wilson's first year to be nominated, and she earned nods in six categories, including album of the year, female vocalist of the year and song of the year. Lainey Wilson landed the most CMA Awards nominations.

Country Music Association Awards nominations in her first year as a nominee, earning nods in six categories including album of the year, female vocalist of the year and song of the year.Wilson is only the fourth artist in the history of the CMAs to earn six nominations in her first year, following Glen Campbell, Brad Paisley and Kacey Musgraves. She’s also up for new artist of the year, music video and musical event.Other leading nominees include Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Chris Stapleton and writer-producer Shane McAnally, who all have nominations in five categories.

Louisiana-native Lainey Wilson is having a breakout year as she tops the Country Music Association Awards nominations in her first year as a nominee, earning nods in six categories including album of the year, female vocalist of the year and song of the year.

Cardi B and Offset spared no expense when it came to celebrating their son Wave Set Cephus‘s first birthday!

Cardi B and Offset are the queen and king of parties, and as they have done in the past, the couple went all out for their baby son Wave’s first birthday. The 29-year-old Dominican rapper took social media to share snaps of the lavish race-car-themed birthday party.

Something to sing about! Country music’s biggest names haven’t been afraid to go head-to-head over the years, exchanging blows on social media, making up at awards shows and more.

Fascism – its roots, legacy and contemporary manifestations – is a leitmotif running throughout the 79th Venice Film Festival as Italy marks the centenary of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s fateful power grab in 1922, in an era when totalitarian leaders are once again on the rise.

Kane Brown delivered a historic moment at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, becoming the first male country artist to perform on the show since its 1984 inception. Prior to this Sunday's event, Kacey Musgraves and Taylor Swift had previously been the only country acts to score a performance placement on the high-profile MTV ceremony. Following a branded mixed-reality promo set to his 2020 hit, «Be Like That,» Brown performed his pop-inspired single, «Grand» in front of a live audience in nearby Fort Lee, New Jersey.