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Kacey Musgraves, Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and Willie Nelson will all perform at a new California country music festival. The Palomino Festival is set for Saturday, July 9, at the Brookside grounds at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

The lineup leans hard into the alt-country sound, highlighting artists who mainly work outside of the mainstream Nashville system. Orville Peck, Charley Crockett, Sierra Ferrell, Low Cut Connie, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Valerie June are all on the bill.

The Palomino Festival is presented by Goldenvoice, the company behind...

The 2020 edition of the Luck Reunion has announced its lineup. Lucinda Williams, Orville Peck, Margo Price, and perennial Luck headliner Willie Nelson are all set to perform at the daylong festival held on Nelson’s Luck Ranch outside of Austin.

Slated for March 19th, the Luck Reunion brings together left-of-center artists who are both preserving and progressing American music. Luck is also defined by frequent collaboration and a sense of intimacy, especially for the lucky few who pack the ranch’s “Chapel Stage.” This year, the Haden Triplets, Sierra Ferrell,...

We’re not exactly in Kentucky, but Kelsey Waldon’s Bluegrass State DNA is everywhere across the cozy log cabin she lives in with her boyfriend half an hour outside of Nashville — it’s that “DNA” that she sings about in “Kentucky, 1988,” Rolling Stone‘s best country song of the year.

You can see it as you approach from the gravel drive, via a black sign that reads “Ky Best” in block letters, hanging on the rust-colored shed. It’s in the camo jacket from her father’s hunting lodge,...

Nashville singer-songwriter Jeremy Ivey is joined by his wife, performer Margo Price, to sing about the feeling of being between destinations in the new song “Greyhound.” The track appears on Ivey’s upcoming solo album The Dream and the Dreamer, which will be released September 13th.

Ivey cooks up a gentle country rhythm featuring fingerstyle acoustic guitar, woozy Dobro licks, and electric guitar accents, evoking Mutations-era Beck along with classic country. “Oh Greyhound, where’s my home today?/A pillow and a blanket, send me on my way,” Ivey sings,...

“Well, I’ve been in this Junk Town most of my life,” singer-songwriter Ian Noe sings on his debut album, Between the Country. Noe hails from small-town Eastern Kentucky, and his first offering is a bundle of dark tales and larger-than-life characters from his beleaguered home region. “It’s a country jungle ‘round here,” he sings halfway through a record littered with meth, online poker, bitter wind and despair.

Noe, 29, sings with a gentle high nasal that recalls Diamonds in the Rough-era John Prine. Unlike the debut of his fellow country-leaning Kentucky contemporary Tyler Childers,...

If there’s a universal suggestion in songwriting, it’s to “write what you know,” since discerning listeners will quickly poke holes in disingenuous songs. Singer-songwriter Ian Noe doesn’t have that problem. His first full-length album, Between the Country, due May 31st, personifies the real, rural and sometimes downtrodden communities of Kentucky and Appalachia at large.

Noe knows this land and its hardworking inhabitants as well as anyone who’s ever claimed the Bluegrass State as home. He possesses a deep understanding of people’s unyielding vices, underlying motives and destructive weaknesses,...

Tyler Childers offers the first taste of his upcoming album with “House Fire,” Lady Antebellum are haunted by memories in “What If I Never Get Over You” and Ashton Shepherd stays strong in “This Heart Won’t Break,” plus more must-hear songs for this week.

Ashton Shepherd, “This Heart Won’t Break”

The title track from Shepherd’s new album is a mid-tempo salute to resilience and resolve. “You’ve gotta keep your faith and stay strong, even when everything else in your life is going wrong,” she sings over power chords and mandolin,...

Ian Noe and I are hunched over bowls of chili at Honky Tonk BBQ next door to Chicago’s Thalia Hall, where he’ll open for Son Volt in a couple hours’ time. Yesterday was beautiful outside, but last night brought a sudden, last-gasp winter storm, and now snow is speeding past the restaurant’s windows while frost creeps…...

After spending a mellow 2018 at home, Jamestown Revival will hit the road again in April, drumming up anticipation for the summertime release of the duo’s third album, San Isabel.

Co-produced by bandmates Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance, along with former Nathaniel Rateliff collaborator Jamie Mefford, San Isabel returns Jamestown Revival to the rootsy, acoustic-driven sounds of their 2014 debut, Utah. Nowhere is that more evident than in the bright harmonies and loping guitar patterns of “This Too Shall Pass,” an optimistic track that splits the difference between modern-day Americana and old-school folk.

Paradigm has just added eight new agents across multiple offices by promoting off desks. They are: Zac Bluestone and Madi Daigle in New York, Brewster Lee in Los Angeles, Kylie Doyle, Zach Hartley and Jeremy Shpizner in Nashville, and tour marketing agents Dani Barrett in Los Angeles and Andrew Whitaker in New York.

Paradigm also announced that veteran music agent Phil Egenthal has joined the agency, bringing clients including The Revivalists, George Porter Jr., Dumpstaphunk and Foundation of Funk. Egenthal is currently based in Boulder, Colorado, but will move to Chicago to join Paradigm’s West Superior Street office in the coming weeks.

“Phil is a great agent and a terrific addition to our organization, and we’re looking forward to his many contributions,” said Paradigm music executive Marty Diamond.

Regarding the promotion of multiple employees to agents, Paradigm Chairman/CEO Sam Gores noted: “Paradigm is a place where people can grow,...