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Wake up! Because there's finally a release date for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. The third film in Rian Johnson's murder-mystery franchise will premiere on Dec. 12, Netflix announced its Tudum 2025 event on Saturday, along with a sneak peek of the film.

The premiere date was teased earlier in the week on the film's X page with a 12-second clip of a spooky church and the caption, "The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers, but the root of the righteous endures." The quote is a biblical passage from Proverbs 12:12, leading fans and online sleuths to surmise Wake Up Dead Man's release date would be Dec. 12. Benoit Blanc would be proud.

The minute-long preview, set to the old bluegrass tune "O Death" by Ralph Stanley, features glimpses of that same church and its cemetery along with quick shots of the new cast, with a voiceover from...

Elvis Costello has announced King of America & Other Realms, an expansive new box set that celebrates his passion for American music and the songs it has inspired throughout this career.

Due on November 1st via UMe, King of America & Other Realms will be a 6xCD set with 97 tracks in total, including a 2024 remaster of his 1986 album, King of America; a previously-unreleased London concert that was recorded in 1987; newly discovered demos; and a collection of other songs from throughout his discography, including collaborations with Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and more.

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Additionally, the King of America & Other Realms box set will include a number of Costello’s recordings with producer and longtime collaborator, T Bone Burnett, plus live tracks, outtakes, and more. There will even be three new recordings of Costello songs: a fresh arrangement of “Brilliant Mistake,” a version of “That’s...

The Fargo season 5 soundtrack has a ton of great needle-drops in between pieces from its foreboding original score. The use of licensed music in FX's Fargo ties back to the classic Coen brothers movie it was based on, which featured songs by Merle Haggard and Boy George. Fargo season 5 includes songs by such renowned artists as Yes, Rush, and Marilyn Manson.

The Fargo season 5 soundtrack is full of great needle drops. The original Coen brothers movie is remembered for its creepy, foreboding score by regular Coen collaborator Carter Burwell, but it had its fair share of licensed music, too. “Big City” by Merle Haggard can be heard in the King of Clubs when Jerry meets with Carl and Gaear. Boy George’s cover version of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” is playing in the garage while Shep works. Carl and his escort watch a live nightclub performance of...

Ten years ago this summer, Kelsey Waldon was named one of Rolling Stone Country’s inaugural Artists You Need to Know. She’s been on a roll ever since, releasing acclaimed albums like 2022’s No Regular Dog, and signing with John Prine’s Oh Boy! Records. On May 10, Waldon will release her latest project, There’s Always a Song, a duet album that finds the Kentucky native interpreting the country and bluegrass songs she listened to while growing up.

Waldon previews There’s Always a Song with the release of “Hello Stranger,...

“Bad Sisters” doesn’t have a good Rotten Tomatoes score, it has a perfect one. The Apple TV+ drama series merits a jaw-dropping 100% on this site that aggregates reviews.

Created by Sharon Horgan, Dave Finkel, and Brett Baer, “Bad Sisters” follows the five Garvey sisters (led by Horgan’s eldest sister Eva) as they try to kill Claes Bang‘s John Paul, the abusive husband of Grace Garvey (Anne-Marie Duff). The action moves between two timelines. The first follows the sisters plotting John Paul’s murder while the second shows two insurance agents (Brian Gleeson‘s Thomas and Daryl McCormack‘s Matthew) trying to prove that the sisters were involved in John Paul’s death in a desperate attempt to save their business.

The juxtaposing timelines make for a whip-smart drama full of pitch-black comedy and pitch-perfect performances. It’s obvious why the show has received that perfect Rotten Tomatoes score.

The first time Grammy-winning Americana/bluegrass act Steep Canyon Rangers played the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, the group was adorned in full suits and encircling a lone microphone.

“It was probably around 2004,” Rangers singer-banjoist Graham Sharp tells Rolling Stone backstage at the recent Suwannee Spring Reunion festival. “We’ve been able to trace our band and its evolution through this festival, from being a traditional bluegrass band to being whatever the hell we are now — this place is a natural home for that.”

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It’s the first Tuesday of the month and, as has been his standing date since October, Dierks Bentley is onstage at Nashville’s cinderblock picking parlor the Station Inn, playing bluegrass staples with his road band under the anonymous name of Long Jon. After rambunctious versions of Tony Rice’s “Cold on the Shoulder” and Ralph Stanley’s “Katy Daley,” Bentley takes off his Martin acoustic and feigns swapping instruments with fiddle player Dan Hochhalter. It’s a gag, a bit. Bentley doesn’t play fiddle. He’s a guitar strummer,...

When Mavis Staples thinks about her late friend Levon Helm, memories of her family flood into her mind. Decades ago, when Helm and Mavis’ sister Yvonne were regularly talking on the phone about a possible joint tour of Black colleges, Mavis would feel left out. “I’d butt in and say, ‘Give me that phone — I want to speak to him!’” the 82-year-old singer recalls.

When Helm would see the Staple Singers on the road, he’d greet Mavis’ father Pops Staples with the familiarity of a childhood friend. “Levon...

Thirteen years after the release of their surprise hit album Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have finally reunited for a follow-lp, Raise the Roof. It comes out on November 19th, and you can check out leadoff single, a cover of the 1998 Lucinda Williams song “Can’t Let Go,” right here.

Raise the Roof was produced by T-Bone Burnett, who also worked with Plant and Krauss on Raising Sand. It features songs by Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, the Everly Brothers, and Bert Jancsh in addition to their original tune “High and Lonesome.

In 2002, RCA released the compilation album Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to Zz Top, an all-country salute to the Texas band’s influential and enduring work. The 15-song collection featured two generations of Williams (both Hank Jr. and Hank III recorded songs), Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, and Brooks & Dunn, among others.

The album’s title track was recorded by a young and red-hot Brad Paisley, who’d released his Number One single “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)” just a few months earlier. Paisley’s wicked...

A few years ago, Cedric Burnside was sitting with his acoustic guitar on the front porch of his home in Ashland, Mississippi, listening to the birds and thinking about grief and perseverance. For Burnside, the prior decade had been one of mourning and recovery; in 2012 he’d lost his brother, fellow musician Cody Burnside, at the age of 29, before losing his father, drummer Calvin Jackson, in 2015, and his mother, Linda Burnside, two years later.

“When my mom passed, I cried,” says Cedric. “When my brother passed, I cried. That’s...

When producer T Bone Burnett’s soundtrack to the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released 20 years ago this month, it launched a roots-music boom. Many artists on the album — from new traditionalists Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss to bygone legends like Ralph Stanley — saw boosts to their careers, while package tours of old-timey music, like Down From the Mountain, sold out around the country.

Most importantly, the unlikely success of the soundtrack, which placed Jimmie Rodgers-era country-blues (“In the Jailhouse Now”) alongside stark mountain spirituals...

Long renowned for a faithful adherence to the Appalachian folk music tradition in many of their solo works as well as their collaborations as a duo, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have announced the release of All The Good Times, a 10-track sampling of acoustic cover songs.

Recorded at home on a reel-to-reel tape machine, the album — released to streaming on Friday — features the works of legendary songwriters including Bob Dylan (“Señor,” “Abandoned Love”), John Prine (“Hello in There”), Elizabeth Cotton (“Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie”) and Norman Blake...

When Hal Willner died earlier this week after experiencing symptoms consistent with the coronavirus, the music producer, Saturday Night Live music supervisor and connoisseur of all things left-field and eccentric left behind more than just a series of offbeat and acclaimed tribute albums. Those collections mixed and matched everyone from Tom Waits and Keith Richards to Sun Ra, the Replacements and Sting. Willner also nurtured deep friendships that resulted from those collaborations, including with Elvis Costello (who called him “my dear friend”) and Bono (who described him as “a gigantic...

Twenty years ago, Marty Stuart found himself at a creative crossroads. Having straddled the lines of bluegrass, traditional country, rock, and even gospel music, Stuart shifted his priorities at the end of the decade and millenium, focusing his efforts on a project that would lead him, in his words, “to the outer edge of the awakenings of my true musical heart and soul.” The Pilgrim was a concept record based on the real life of Norman, a man in Stuart’s hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the tangled romantic tale...

No one ever knew what to call Mumford & Sons. The Guardian had already described them as “Coldplay reincarnated as hillbillies” by the time the group released their debut album in the U.S. in February 2010, a moment that garnered a slurry of descriptors: “foot-stomping British folk;” “skiffled Frames (nice banjo);” or, as this magazine wrote, “if Dexys Midnight Runners aged into boozy-pub session romantics.”

One word eventually stuck: Americana. The New York Times would describe the group as “Britons touched by Americana” later that year; a Spin cover story would...

The phrase “the Ken Burns effect” is specifically the name of a function on Apple computers that makes all your static old family photos move around on screen like something out of “The Civil War.” But there’s another Ken Burns effect worth talking about as his “Country Music” comes to TV screens: the impact one of his documentary mini-series can have on an entire major musical genre. As heavily debated as the inclusions and exclusions of “Jazz” might have been in 2001, few would argue that the art form isn’t still enjoying some kind of afterglow from that massively seen series. Country isn’t nearly as in need of the same commercial boost, but it’s going to get a consciousness-raising lift anyway from Burns’ 20th-century-spanning look at the genre’s ascendance from hollers to stadiums.

The director spoke with Variety just before the Sept. 15 premiere of a project...

“We gotta change around here,” Mavis Staples sang toward the very end of Wednesday night’s 18th annual Americana Honors & Awards Ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Having been presented the evening’s Inspiration Award by pioneering Civil Rights activist and Freedom Rider Ernest Patton earlier in the evening, Staples’ song was a powerful reminder that change-inspiring music-makers are, like Staples put it herself during her acceptance speech, “still carrying on.”

But during a show that at once gestured at the future of the Americana genre while still firmly upholding its rigid past,...

As the 1990s were coming to a close, musician Marty Stuart was newly married – to fellow Grand Ole Opry member Connie Smith – and looking back on a 10-year period that would afford him his greatest commercial success. His final record of the decade, The Pilgrim, while among his poorest selling at the time, has since become one of the country music Renaissance man’s most significant contributions to the genre, changing the trajectory of Stuart’s musical output and growing in stature since its release 20 years ago. A sweeping, yet...

Despite a tragically short career, Keith Whitley left an indelible footprint on country music before his death from alcohol poisoning in 1989 at age 33. As a teenage bluegrass picker, he was good enough to join no less than Ralph Stanley’s band. As an interpreter of songs, he was keen in choosing hits. And as a singer, his resonant tone was unmatched. It’s that vocal prowess that permeates Still Rings True: The Enduring Voice of Keith Whitley, a new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in...

One of the most influential country and bluegrass singers of his generation, Keith Whitley will be remembered on the 30th anniversary of his untimely death with an all-star concert featuring Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Lawrence, Joe Diffie and more.

Set for May 9th at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Cma Theater, the memorial tribute concert will be hosted by Whitley’s widow Lorrie Morgan and their son Jesse Keith Whitley, who will also perform. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 29th, at 10 a.

Country superstar duo Brooks and Dunn will be the latest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The duo was announced on Monday morning in Nashville along with singer/songwriter Ray Stevens and producer/executive Jerry Bradley will be inducted at the 2019 ceremony in October. Watch the official video above.

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn are two-time Grammy winners, sold over 30 million albums and charted 20 number one songs. Those tunes have included “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “My Maria,” “Brand New Man” and “Believe.” Stevens made his debut in 1962 and has had such hits as “Everything is Beautiful,” “Gitarzan” and “The Streak.” Bradley ran RCA Records from 1973 to 1982 and was a longtime member of the Country Music Association board. He follows both his father Owen Bradley and uncle Harold Bradley into Hall of Fame induction.

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Reba McEntire will announce the 2019 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees on Monday, March 18. Which two country superstars will be selected this year for an induction ceremony slated for next October?

The criteria is pretty simple to get in but it’s an exclusive group since only 2-3 people are inducted each year. One person will be from the Modern Era category (an artist who came to prominence at least 20 years ago). Another will be from the Veterans Era (an artist who came to prominence at least 45 years ago). A third inductee would be a non-performer, songwriter or musician. The artists chosen last year were Ricky Skaggs (modern), Dottie West (veterans) and Johnny Gimble (musician).

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McEntire herself was already inducted in 2011. Other recent inductees have included Garth Brooks, Roy Clark, Charlie Daniels, Alan Jackson,...

Fifty-three years ago today, on March 1st, 1966, construction began on the barn-shaped structure that would for several decades house the original Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Music Row. Now located in downtown Nashville, the museum anchors a booming tourist industry and, with more than 350,000 square feet, tells the ongoing story of country music through exhibits featuring the genre’s stars past and present. That tradition continues in 2019 with the museum’s just-announced schedule, which will shine a spotlight on recent Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves, hit duo Brooks & Dunn,...

Thirty years ago this month, singer Keith Whitley topped the country chart with one of the most romantic ballads of all time. Written by Don Schlitz and Paul Overstreet, “When You Say Nothing at All” was the second of Whitley’s five Number One hits, coming just six months before his death from alcohol poisoning at 33 years old.

Whitley’s influence on a younger generation of country singers is profoundly evident in this clip from the Grand Ole Opry featuring “Think a Little Less” singer Michael Ray and Carly Pearce,...

Josh Turner pauses as he enters the backstage hallway of Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, taking time to say hello and chat with Grand Ole Opry crew members as he makes the short journey to his dressing room for the evening.

In just a few hours, Turner will make an appearance on the Opry, which relocates to the Ryman — its full-time home from 1943 to 1974 — during the winter months. It’s a building that has witnessed substantial country music history, and Turner became a part of that history when he gave his...

Dierks Bentley has frequently spoken of his enduring love for bluegrass and how it shaped his early days in Nashville, even as his fortunes swelled as a mainstream country performer. On Wednesday night, Bentley put his bluegrass appreciation front and center as the host of an all-star tribute to late bluegrass masters Ralph and Carter Stanley, held at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Cma Theater.

Timed to coincide with the Hall of Fame’s newly opened exhibit Ralph Stanley: Voice From on High, the event traced the...

On Sunday night, Ricky Skaggs, Dottie West and Johnny Gimble were welcomed as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at the 2018 Medallion Ceremony, held in the museum’s Cma Theater. Garth Brooks presented bluegrass stalwart Skaggs with the Hall’s Modern Era honor. Connie Smith inducted late fiddle great Gimble in the Hall’s Recording and/or Touring Musician category. And Brenda Lee led a tribute to her late friend, Grammy-winning classic country turned pop-crossover star Dottie West, who received the Hall’s Veteran Era honor.

Dierks Bentley, whose 2010 LP, Up on the Ridge, paid homage to the bluegrass that influenced him as a young, aspiring musician, will headline an upcoming concert paying tribute to Ralph and Carter Stanley — two of that genre’s most important architects.

On Wednesday, October 24th, at 7:30 p.m, Bentley will take the stage at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Cma Theater in downtown Nashville, joined by a stellar lineup including Dan Auerbach, the Gibson Brothers, Sierra Hull with Justin Moses, Ralph Stanley II and the Travelin’ McCourys...

Dr. Ralph Stanley, the iconic bluegrass singer, died Thursday. He was 89. Dr. Ralph Stanley Dies Stanley’s death was announced by his grandson Nathan Stanley on Facebook in an emotional post. Nathan revealed that his grandfather had died after a protracted battle with skin cancer. “My heart is broken into pieces. My papaw, my dad, […]

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Legendary bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley died Thursday night at the age of 89. According to a message posted to Facebook by his grandson, Stanley succumbed to skin cancer after a long battle. The Bluegrass Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry member has a legacy that stretches back to the 1940s, but his musical contributions to the Coen Brother's 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? introduced him to a new generation of fans. Known affectionately as "Doctor Ralph" after receiving an honorary Doctorate of Music from Lincoln Memorial University in 1976, Stanley was born in Dickenson County, Virginia, on Feb. 25, 1927. According to music lore,...

If David Letterman's only goal for his final weeks as Late Show host is to to welcome a galaxy of A-list stars, he has more than succeeded.

George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey are just a few of the top-liners sending off Letterman after more than 20 years behind the desk at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

On Monday, the host announced which celebrities will be appearing on his final 28 broadcasts of the Late Show, airing on CBS over the next month and a half in advance of the show's grand finale on May 20.

This...

Nashville, Tenn. -- It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash's baritone or Hank Williams' heartbreak.

Scruggs died Wednesday morning at age 88 of natural causes. The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around Nashville, where he died in an area hospital. His string-bending, mind-blowing way of picking helped transform a regional sound into a national passion.

"It's not just bluegrass, it's American music," bluegrass fan turned country star Dierks Bentley said. "There's 17- or 18-year-old kids turning on today's country music and hearing that banjo and they have no idea where that came from. That sound...

Nashville, Tenn. — It is impossible to overstate the importance of Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash's baritone or Hank Williams' heartbreak.

Scruggs passed away Wednesday morning at 88 of natural causes. The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around Nashville, where he died in an area hospital. His string-bending, mind-blowing way of picking helped transform a regional sound into a national passion.

"It's not just bluegrass, it's American music," bluegrass fan turned country star Dierks Bentley said. "There's 17- or 18-year-old kids turning on today's country music and hearing that banjo and they have no idea where that came from. That sound has probably always been...

Pretty Lights, aka Derek Smith, has his hands full with country legend Dr. Ralph Stanley in “Re:Generation.” The documentary, which plays in theaters for one day only, Feb. 23, before finding its TV home, pairs current DJs, such as Mark Ronson, Skrillex and Smith with artists in different genres. They then create an entirely new recording from the ground up. Smith comes the farthest in the film musically: when he first finds out that he will be working in the country genre, he can’t disguise his contempt for the music, even though he barely knows anything about it. By the end,...

Amir Bar-Lev's ("The Tillman Story") latest documentary, "Re:Generation," is a limited engagement you don't want to miss. His behind-the-scenes approach delves deep into the creative processes of five DJ-producers as they collaborate with dozens of artists and musicians renowned the world over to produce "new" electronic music from five different genres.

The project, which initially began as a music platform for the launch of a new sports car from Hyundai, evolved into something more culturally relevant when the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (aka the Grammys) cosigned and enlisted DJ Premier, The Crystal Method, Pretty Lights, Mark Ronson and Skrillex to reimagine a specific genre of music (not of their own choosing) to create somewhat original tracks.

"Re:Generation" is more about the means to an end than the end itself, since technology has heavily influenced how these DJs and producers operate. Bar-Lev's film vividly illustrates that the...

Coming off the fascination documentary My Kid Could Paint That, then following it up with the post-war documentary The Tillman Story, director Amir Bar-Lev is heading into very different territory with his look at the world of DJ’ing in Re:Generation Music Project.

The film, which will hit limited theaters next month, follows five major DJs (Skrillex, DJ Premier, The Crystal Method, Pretty Lights and Mark Ronson) as they interact with major musical acts like Nas, The Doors, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, LeAnn Rimes and Dr. Ralph Stanley in creating that perfect mix.

We have a trailer below via Apple, but official site also features many videos including performances, original tracks and behind-the-scene featurettes. I include some below, but check out the rest at the link above.

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Follow DJ Premier, Mark Ronson, Skrillex, Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method as they remix, recreate and...

By Chris Talbott, The Associated Press

Cumberland Caverns, Tenn. — In decades of ceaseless touring, bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley thought he'd played in every venue imaginable.

Then he got an invite to play a "Bluegrass Underground" show earlier this year.

"It's a good day to be here," Stanley told a crowd of several hundred fans, some of whom hung from rocky ledges around the rim of the Volcano Room 333 feet below ground. "I hope we can get out. I've been playing for 65 years now, and I've never played in a cave."

In a few short years, "Bluegrass Underground" and the Volcano Room at Cumberland Caverns near McMinnville, Tenn., have become a hot destination for top bluegrassers and acoustic musicians around the country. And a new weekly show on PBS should help raise the profile of one of the nation's most unique concert spaces even more.

The show kicked off in September and acts like Ricky Skaggs,...

What happens when you take 5 prominent DJs, pair them with artists from 5 contrasting genres, and film it? Well that’s exactly what the Re:Generation Music Project is looking to find out with their upcoming Documentary entitled Re:Generation.

The film, sponsored both by The Grammys as well as Hyundai’s new Veloster sports car, follows 5 electronic musicians as they are faced with the tedious task of adapting to genre’s uniquely different from their own. Some artists such as DJ Premiere and Skrillex, find the experience to be entirely humbling and gratifying, while others like Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method, encounter nothing but resistance as both genres and personalities race towards a head on collision.

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Unlike similar films like 2009′s It Might Get Loud, this film will not be released in theaters, but will instead see an exclusive premiere on YouTube in February 2012. Now at first...

Carrie Underwood is one of the many country music stars nominated for awards at the 2010 Inspirational Country Music Awards taking place at the Trinity Music City USA Auditorium in Hendersonville, Tennessee, on October 14.

The annual Inspirational Country Music Awards are dedicated to honoring and showcasing the biggest names and emerging talent among artists who perform Christian and Inspirational Country music. Inspirational Country music is inspired by Faith, Family, and Country.

Love and Theft, Joey + Rory, The Roys, Nathan Stanley along with Dr. Ralph Stanley and 2009 Icm Entertainer of the Year CrossCountry The Band and Tommy Brandt are all confirmed to perform on the award show. In addition, Megan Alexander, Correspondent for the national television show “Inside Edition”, will co-host the show.

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