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Interviews

Walker Hayes Interview: ‘Country Stuff’ EP, Songwriting Over Zoom, Working with Jake Owen, Carly Pearce, Lori McKenna, and Shane McAnally, Getting Back to Live Shows

I talked to Walker Hayes last week just a couple of days before he released his new EP, ‘Country Stuff,’ and the day after he had just performed his first show with a full band in over a year. We talked about finally releasing a new project after all this time, getting back to live shows, his new collaborations with Jake Owen, Carly Pearce, and Lori McKenna, and what he’s been up between songwriting and life over the last year.

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Award Shows

2021 CMT Music Awards Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know

everything you need to know about the 2021 CMT Music Awards!

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Albums

MusicNewsRumor’s 16 Best EPs of 2020

EPs have always been popular, but this year especially it seems that artists turned to the shorter form project style to get a handful of songs out to their fans when they couldn’t get a full length album out. Other artists just prefer to release an EP to get music out quicker and more conveniently. […]

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Songs

MusicNewsRumor’s 20 Best Collaborations of 2020

2020 brought us countless incredible collaborations bringing together some of our favorite artists for the first time or reuniting them for another new song together. This list only includes songs that were originally released as collaborations, so it excludes any remixes (I have another article ranking all of the 2020 remixes). Read on to see […]

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Songs

MusicNewsRumor’s 20 Best Remixes of 2020

so. many. remixes. It almost got overwhelming with the number of remixes and trying to keep up with who was featured on what. There were a few weeks mid-quarantine that felt like remixes were popping up almost daily. DaBaby was the unrivaled king of the remix this year (he actually appears on a NUMBER of […]

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Albums

MusicNewsRumor’s 30 Best Albums of 2018

Ranking albums has to be one of the most difficult things a music lover ever has to do. Some albums featured here are full of hit songs, and some albums here might have completely slipped under your radar. With this list, I did not limit myself to leave out any projects based on genre or […]