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Drake has announced the 2024 ‘It’s All A Blur Tour – Big As The What?’ tour with J Cole.The rappers will tour across the US together from January 2024, making stops in Denver, Nashville, New Orleans, Buffalo and more places.Drake and J. Cole kick off the arena run with two shows in Denver at Ball Arena on January 18 and 19 and wrap up on March 27 in Birmingham at BJCC’s own Legacy Arena.General sale starts this Friday (November 17) at 11am local time from here.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Just weeks after concluding his blockbuster ‘It’s All a Blur’ arena tour, Drake has announced dates for his 2024 U.S. ‘It’s All A Blur Tour – Big As The What?’ tour with J. Cole, presented by Cash App and Visa.

Brandy Clark is responsible for half of those nominations. The Nashville favorite, who lives her life openly as a lesbian, earned a nod in Best Country Solo Performance for her single “Buried.” She’s joined in that field by Dolly Parton, who might not be gay herself, but she’s essentially an honorary member.Over in the similar Best Country Duo/Group Performance category, the Brothers Osborne are representing the LGBTQ community. One-half of the sibling duo, T.J., came out as gay in 2021.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic These weren’t your grandfather’s CMA Awards… or even yours, from, say five years ago. A new generation has been firmly installed, between the big look for Lainey Wilson, who is only on her second major-label album but was named entertainer of the year, and other winners from Luke Combs to Hardy, who were also unknown a decade ago. When Chris Stapleton suddenly nearly seems like the “old guard” after only six years of accruing awards, things have changed.

Singer and Yellowstone TV star Lainey Wilson came into the 2023 Country Music Assn. Awards as the leading nominee, and she lived up to that advance billing by taking home five trophies Wednesday including the top honor Entertainer of the Year.

CMA Awards 2023 performance at least one labeled “bizarre.”The country music icon, 59, appeared unsteady while joining country newcomer Jelly Roll for a duet of his hit “Need a Favor,” to open ABC’s broadcast of the show. Judd, who lost her mother and singing partner Naomi Judd to suicide last April, seemed “off” during the performance, according to fans on social media platform X.“Am I the only one concerned for @Wynonna,” one fan asked. “Something is wrong with her.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The winners of the 2023 CMA Awards are being announced from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Luke Combs‘ cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” won the first two on-air awards, for single of the year and song of the year.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Many of the most beloved country musicians will gather in Nashville on Tuesday night for the CMA Awards. The ceremony will take place from the city’s Bridgstone Arena at 8 p.m.

Blake Shelton may be one of the most recognizable names in country music, but don’t expect to see him at the 2023 CMA Awards because he’s not even in Nashville right now.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Luke Combs and Morgan Wallen tied for songwriter of the year of the BMI Country Music Awards, held Tuesday night at BMI’s building in Nashville. To commemorate the tie (which clearly had been communicated to the twin winners in advance), BMI cooked up another surprise: a climactic performance for the evening in which Wallen and Combs sat side by side and borrowed each other’s hits.

Stephen Sanchez has shared details of 2024 UK and European tour – find out how to buy tickets below.The Nashville singer-songwriter’s ‘The Troubadour Takes Europe Tour’ will take in shows at Bristol’s SWX, London’s KOKO and Manchester’s New Century Hall between February 12 and 14 before other stops in major European cities.Tickets go on general sale at this Friday (November 10) at 9am GMT here. A fan pre-sale is already open for select dates.The news follows the release of Sanchez’s debut album ‘Angel Face’.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Ashley Gorley is always the odds-on favorite to win the songwriter of the year award at the ASCAP Country Music Awards. With the wind of a healthy amount of fresh Morgan Wallen tracks at his back, he was again shooed in for the top honor as the winners were announced Monday night in Nashville.

Sheryl Crow is opening up about AI and new music.

Sheryl Crow is singing Olivia Rodrigo‘s praises!

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent MK2 Films has boarded Bernhard Wenger’s feature debut, “Peacock,” a tragicomedy headlined by Albrecht Schuch, the German actor who starred in “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “System Crasher.” An up-and-coming Austrian director, Wenger developed the script at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation residency and was part of Berlinale Talents in 2020. His shorts, including “Keeping Balance,” “Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend on a Mountain” and “Excuse Me, I’m Looking for the Ping-Pong Room and My Girlfriend,” have played at festivals in Chicago, Palm Springs and Nashville, among others.

As if she needed any reason to be any hotter right now, Nashville sensation Lainey Wilson — who leads the nominees for the Nov. 8 Country Music Awards with nine nods — is getting ready to take her show on the road.The 31-year-old singer announced on Friday that she will launch her “Country’s Cool Again” Tour in 2024, beginning with a date at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater on May 31.The highly anticipated trek for the “Yellowstone” star will include a June 26 date at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.“Nothing gets me buzzin’ like putting on a show and singing along with the crowd,” Wilson told the Post.“I want to give a big thank you to all of the fans who have continuously showed up and showed out this year.

The lawsuit – filed in a Nashville court on Wednesday (October 18) by UMG’s publishing company Universal Music Publishing Group, along with co-plaintiffs Concord Music Group and ABKCO – seeks potentially tens of millions of dollars in damages from Anthropic and its AI assistant service Claude (per Music Business Worldwide)It claims that, “in the process of building and operating AI models, Anthropic unlawfully copies and disseminates vast amounts of copyrighted works — including the lyrics to myriad musical compositions owned or controlled by Publishers”.“Publishers embrace innovation and recognise the great promise of AI when used ethically and responsibly,” the suit continued. “But Anthropic violates these principles on a systematic and widespread basis.

“Dancing With The Stars Live” will return to stages all over North America with special guest Julianne Hough appearing on select dates.As of now, the classic reality show turned thrilling live experience has 64 performances planned including five in New York and three in New Jersey.The five New York stops will take place at Brookville’s Tilles Center for Performing Arts on Jan. 16, White Plains’ The Westchester County Center on Jan. 17, Verona’s Turning Stone Resort Casino on Jan.

“When I announced that I was running for public office, I called a lot of other politicians in the Middle Tennessee area, and heard the same thing from everybody,” recalls Olivia Hill, the recently sworn-in Metropolitan Nashville Council Member At-Large, who became the Volunteer State’s first out transgender officeholder. “All those politicians told me, ‘Olivia, on a campaign, you’re going to meet some really, really nice people.

Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and the star of Wilma (1977), has died. She was 74.