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Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley lead ACM Awards nominations
Miranda Lambert topped the field as nominations for the Academy of Country Music Awards were announced Friday. Lambert received eight nods including entertainer of the year, and Dierks Bentley was close on her boot heels with seven nominations. Party-minded country duo Florida Georgia Line was next with five nominations for the awards scheduled to be handed out April 19 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas -- a shift from the ceremony's usual site in Las Vegas to celebrate this year’s 50th-anniversary event. In the running for the ACM’s top award of entertainer of the year with Lambert and Florida Georgia Line were Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and Garth Brooks, the...
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Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley lead ACM Awards nominations
Miranda Lambert topped the field as nominations for the Academy of Country Music Awards were announced Friday.
Lambert received eight nods including entertainer of the year, and Dierks Bentley was close on her boot heels with seven nominations....
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Clarity can take a backseat to diplomacy when Sam Hunt, one of country music's edgiest young stars, talks about his relationship with Nashville.
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2014 CMAs: Luke Bryan wins entertainer of the year
On a night dominated by women present (Miranda Lambert) and absent (Taylor Swift), Luke Bryan won the top prize at this year's CMA Awards.
Bryan won entertainer of the year on strength of his 2013 LP "Crash My Party," an album of high-spirited,...
CMA Awards 2014: A Taylor-made hangover at country's showcase
A country superstar gone proudly (and successfully) pop, Taylor Swift was nowhere to be seen at the 48th annual Country Music Assn. Awards.
But, boy, was her presence felt.
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CMA Awards 2014: List of nominees and winners
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What the American Music Awards may lack in prestige or irreverence compared to other ceremonies honoring music talent, it makes up for by showcasing one flashy performance after another.
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2014 Teen Choice Awards: Complete list of nominees
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Miranda Lambert's life has gone 'Platinum,' and she's grateful
Miranda Lambert can point to all sorts of things she has now that she didn't have a decade ago when she launched her career in country music.
The singer and songwriter has racked up a string of four hit albums, six No. 1 chart hits, a Grammy Award, 18...
Luke Bryan falls off stage in North Carolina during Macklemore song
What is it about North Carolina? Luke Bryan fell off a stage during his Charlotte concert as he was dancing to a Macklemore song on Thursday.
Perhaps he would have had this kind of night go differently (again).
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10 pressing observations on the 2014 Billboard Music Awards
Whether or not you tuned into the 2014 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, you definitely heard about Michael Jackson's resurrection. Five years after the King of Pop died, he returned in hologram form to "perform" a tune from his new posthumous...
Hunter Hayes complicates the plot on jumpy 'Storyline'
When Hunter Hayes took to the Grammy Awards in January to premiere his song “Invisible” – a windswept power ballad in which the 22-year-old country singer describes the hardships faced by “outcasts and rebels” – your first response was: What on earth does...
Hunter Hayes' 'Storyline' full of a jumpy intensity
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Stagecoach Country Music Festival is ready to party, bro
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The pendulum, as pendulums do, has swung, a realization that couldn’t be more apparent than at the opening day of the 2014 edition of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio.
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Stagecoach 2014: Jason Aldean gives the people what they want
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Stagecoach 2014: Country festival is young fans' kinda party
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Country music's recent transformation from a form that spoke to a cross-generational audience about life's broader themes into a party-minded soundtrack for young adults was starkly apparent over...
Stagecoach 2014: John Prine and Michael Nesmith's smart country
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I blame John Prine. And Michael Nesmith.
In the early 1970s,...
Stagecoach music festival shows an embrace of country's cousins
That Dustin Lynch played a Justin Timberlake song Sunday at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival hardly seemed a big deal.
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iHeartRadio Music Awards 2014: Maybe they'll matter next year?
Ahead of a music award show, there’s usually tension-filled questions that viewers hope will be answered during the ceremony.
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But the big question heading into the inaugural iHeartRadio Music Awards on...
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