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Zach Top - Good Girls And Cowgirls Country music doesn’t always have to break your heart. Sometimes, it just needs a cold drink, a packed dance floor, and a chorus built to be shouted from one end of the honky-tonk to the other. Zach Top delivers exactly that with “Good Girls and Cowgirls,” a swaggering, smile-inducing slice of neo-traditional country that already feels like a modern honky-tonk classic. The song thrives on a simple, irresistible contrast: good girls are made

With his deeply personal new album Flowers officially out now, David Nail sat down with All Country News to discuss the record, the lasting influence of his late mother, fatherhood and why, more than two decades into his career, he finally feels at peace with his place in country music. David Nail has spent more than 20 years building one of country music's most respected careers, but his new album Flowers finds him standing somewhere entirely different. Not at the beginning.

Tyra Madison isn’t looking for the safe kind of love on “Break My Heart.” She wants the kind that comes with a warning label. Sharp, flirtatious and loaded with high-octane country attitude, Madison’s latest turns one charged glance across a crowded room into a full-throttle invitation to disaster. Rather than running from the possibility of heartbreak, she leans straight into it, delivering a barroom love song built around the intoxicating idea that sometimes the person most

Country music’s past, present, and future were all under one Nashville roof Wednesday night. The 19th Academy of Country Music Honors, presented by TennPop, Seltzer of the South, took over The Pinnacle in Nashville on August 19, bringing together an all-star lineup to celebrate the artists, songwriters, industry trailblazers, and champions who continue to move country music forward. Four-time ACM Award winner Carly Pearce returned for her sixth year as host, this time teaming

Sometimes, growth is easiest to recognize when you look back at the person you used to be. On his heartfelt new single “Fine,” rising Nashville-based artist Ethan Burdick does exactly that, turning an imagined conversation with his younger self into a poignant reminder that difficult seasons do not last forever. Credit: David Higgs Released today via Back Blocks Music, “Fine” was written by Burdick alongside Zach Seabaugh and Todd Clark and produced by Lukas Scott. Built arou

The CMA winner will trade the stage for a sitcom set in the new season of Netfilx's Leanne. Courtesy Of Netflix The country superstar is officially making her comedic acting debut, guest-starring in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s hit sitcom Leanne premiering August 27th. Wilson will appear as a character named Jessie in Episode 209 of Leanne Season 2, adding yet another unexpected credit to an already jam-packed résumé. And considering Wilson’s larger-than-life perso

Megan Moroney has officially let fans in on another one of her glam secrets, and this one might have emo cowgirls everywhere making an emergency run to the makeup aisle. The country superstar recently pulled back the curtain on the lip combo behind her Cloud 9 Tour look, revealing the three products responsible for that perfectly lined, pink and glossy pout fans have been seeing from the stage. And yes, it is every bit as pink, sparkly and Megan Moroney-coded as you would exp

Country music isn’t staying in its own lane at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. This year’s nominations are packed with familiar Nashville heavyweights, fast-rising newcomers and some of the genre’s biggest crossover success stories. Morgan Wallen, Ella Langley, Lainey Wilson, Luke Combs, Tucker Wetmore, Shaboozey, Kacey Musgraves and Stella Lefty all landed nominations, and several country names are competing well beyond the Best Country category. For a genre that continues

Miranda Lambert fans might want to clear their calendars for Oct. 1, because the country superstar is planning a Nashville night that sounds unlike anything she’s done before. Just one day before her highly anticipated new album, Crisco, arrives on Oct. 2 via MCA, the three-time GRAMMY Award winner will officially open Nashville’s newest live music venue, The Truth, with a special headlining performance dubbed “Miranda Lambert: One Night Only.” And this won’t be just another

Some songs are written. Others seem to arrive exactly when they’re needed. For Alex Hall, “Keep Livin’” was the latter. Born from an intensely personal moment following an AA meeting, the song captures Hall at one of the most reflective points of his life. More than two years into sobriety, the singer-songwriter has found himself experiencing life, and music, with a new sense of clarity. Hall recently sat down with All Country News to open up about the unexpected way “Keep L

Western gothic rocker Liam St. John has never been afraid to let a little darkness seep into his music, but on his new single “Man I Drew,” he turns that darkness inward. Released through Big Loud Rock, the aching new track finds the Nashville-based, Spokane native confronting one of adulthood’s most uncomfortable questions: What would the kid you used to be think of the person you became? It is a devastating premise, but St. John handles it with the kind of country storytell

Orville Peck has always understood the power of contradiction. Behind the mask, the theatricality and the booming baritone is an artist willing to let loneliness, desire and self-destruction bleed through even his most cinematic moments. On “Already Gone,” the latest preview of his forthcoming album Mule, Peck pushes that tension to its most revealing extreme yet, transforming one of the darkest chapters of his life into a swaggering country singalong. That juxtaposition is e

Ella Langley is officially giving fans something new to crack open during her Dandelion era. The country music powerhouse has teamed up with iconic Texas brewery Shiner for Dandelion, a limited-edition Honey Kölsch inspired by Langley’s chart-topping album of the same name. And honestly, country music and an ice-cold Shiner? That combination was probably inevitable. The new brew is described as crisp, easy-drinking and refreshing, with honey adding a subtle floral sweetness a

There’s a difference between an artist who is about to break through and one who already knows she belongs there. On ashley cooke, Ashley Cooke sounds firmly like the latter. Credit: Patrick Tracy Across 15 songs, Cooke turns a whirlwind season of falling in love, overthinking everything, searching for answers and occasionally getting in her own way into her most confident body of work yet. It’s honest without becoming heavy, polished without losing personality and wrapped in

There are songs written to fill a tracklist, and then there are songs that feel like they had to be written. Sheyna Gee’s “Andy’s Song” firmly belongs in the latter category. Written in memory of her late mentor, Andy Zane, the deeply personal track finds Sheyna looking back on the person who helped give her confidence at a pivotal point in her career while simultaneously taking stock of everything that has happened since. The result is a moving piece of traditional country s

There’s something refreshing about an artist whose story can’t be boiled down to one viral moment. Keller Cox has built his career the old-fashioned way: one room, one handshake, one overnight drive and one new fan at a time. Before the bigger stages and bucket-list opening slots came countless nights spent figuring out how to hold a crowd. Before collaborating with friends like The Castellows came the highway miles that turned fellow artists into something closer to family.

There’s something especially satisfying about watching a cheater realize he’s been caught. On her wickedly fun new single, “Does Your Girlfriend Know We Kissed?”, fast-rising country standout Elizabeth Nichols doesn’t waste a second crying over the guy who played her. She doesn’t key his truck, throw his clothes into the street or spiral over what she could have done differently. Instead, she does something much more entertaining: she makes him sweat. And frankly, that’s what

Chase Wright has always had a knack for making country-pop feel big, bright, and built for the open road, and “Rest Of My Life” might be one of his most instantly likable releases yet. Romantic without getting overly sentimental and infectious without trying too hard, the track is country-pop at its finest, the kind of song practically begging for the windows down, the top off, and the volume cranked all the way up. “Rest Of My Life” captures that exhilarating moment when a b

Mason Ramsey is no longer the “yodel kid.” That nickname may always follow him in some capacity, after all, it is tied to the viral moment that first introduced him to millions, but Outlaw in Love makes a convincing case that it no longer defines him. Credit Anthony Wilson Ramsey has grown beyond the novelty, beyond the internet fame and beyond the expectations placed on him as a child. What stands in its place is something far more compelling: a young country artist beginnin

Hudson Westrbook - Made You Look Hudson Westbrook might have just dropped his next No. 1. With “Made You Look,” Westbrook leans all the way into the kind of fast-moving, flirtatious country song built for rolled-down windows, packed bars and a crowd screaming every word back at him. It’s playful without trying too hard, confident without losing its charm, and powered by an energy that feels tailor-made for the stage. Then there’s the fiddle. Calling it the cherry on top almos