Legendary pop/R&B group Boyz II Men are returning to Las Vegas this summer to headline an exclusive, four-night limited engagement at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Performances are scheduled for Aug. 8-9 and 15-16.
Fans of Boyz II Men can expect favorites such as “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” “One Sweet Day” and “Motownphilly.” The trio holds the distinction of being the bestselling R&B group of all time with 64 million albums sold, and have earned four Grammy Awards throughout their career.
The fourth album from Maren Morris, titled Dreamsicle, is set to arrive May 9. “Carry me through,” the first taste of the 14-track record, arrives Thursday.
The 10th anniversary of Ty Herndon‘s Concert for Love & Acceptance will take place June 2 in Nashville at Luke Combs‘ Category 10, formerly known as Wildhose Saloon. Look for the lineup to be announced in the coming weeks.
The Riverside Retreat four-day ticket for CMA Fest goes on sale Wednesday morning for the event that kicks off June 5 in Music City.
Sure, Carrie Underwood‘s busy being a new judge on American Idol and wrapping up her Vegas residency. But she’s finding time to set some records, too.
Carrie and Cody Johnson have hung on for a second week at #1 on the Mediabase chart with “I’m Gonna Love You.”
That means Carrie has the most collaborative number ones of any female artist besides Dolly Parton in the history of the Mediabase tally.
Carrie has now has four, with “I’m Gonna Love You” joining her version of “I Told You So” with Randy Travis, “The Fighter” with Keith Urban and “If I Didn’t Love You” with Jason Aldean.
Dolly has five: “When I Get Where I’m Goin'” with Brad Paisley, “Rockin’ Years” with Ricky Van Shelton, “To Know Him Is to Love Him” with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, and “Real Love” and “Islands in the Stream” with Kenny Rogers.
There’s a new solo single coming from Lady A‘s Charles Kelley on Friday, but that’s not all: He and his wife, Cassie, are expecting their second child.
“Biggest surprise of our lives!” she posted on Instagram Tuesday morning. “Baby Kelley coming early fall 2025. Big brother is the MOST excited.”
You can see that indeed seems to be the case in accompanying photos that show 9-year-old Ward in a family hug, touching his mom’s baby bump.
“I'm bawling over these photos. What a miracle and a blessing!” responded Charles’ bandmate Hillary Scott, who’s also expecting a baby.
Last July the other member of Lady A, Dave Haywood, became a father for the third time, as well.
As Charles waits for the new addition to his family, he’s focusing on his solo career. His new single, “Can’t Lose You,” drops on Friday, along with a cover of “Here with Me” by The Killers.
It’s been nearly three years since Cole Swindell put out his last album, but with 21 tracks, his fifth effort is sure to give fans what they’ve been missing. Spanish Moss drops June 27.
“Spanish Moss has been a work in progress for over 2 years now,” Cole points out. “I knew it would be a tough task following up Stereotype and the success we had from that album, but sometimes a challenge can be motivating and exactly what's needed to grow.”
Cole’s personal life’s been growing as well, and the new album boasts his top-10 “Forever to Me,” inspired by his marriage to wife Courtney last year. The two are expecting their first child, a daughter, this fall.
Here’s the complete track listing for Spanish Moss, with the title track set to arrive on Friday: “Kill a Prayer” “Dirty Dancing” “Dale, Jr.” “Spanish Moss” “We Can Always Move On” “Georgia (Ain’t on Her Mind)” “Lost Heart” “Bottom of It” “Left to Get Right” “Longneck List” “Country Boy Can’t Survive” “Happy Hour Sad” “Wild” “One Day” “Forever to Me” “Someone Worth Missing” “First Second” “’99 Problems” “It Don’t Hurt Anymore” “Take Me Down” “Heads Up Heaven”
Kenny Chesney, June Carter Cash and Tony Brown are the 2025 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees, Vince Gill announced Tuesday morning during a ceremony in the Hall’s Rotunda.
Kenny goes into the Hall as this year’s modern era artist and was admittedly overwhelmed.
“You don't dare dream of being in the Country Music Hall of Fame, alongside legends including George Jones, Willie Nelson, Alabama, even Dean Dillon,” he reflected. “Hearing the news I'd been voted into the Hall, I can honestly say beyond my wildest dreams, it's an honor that defies words. I am humbled, grateful, honored … as much for all the songwriters, musicians, artists and people who've helped me build my career; they have truly inspired me every single day.”
The late Carter Cash, whose mother Maybelle is in the Hall as a member of the original Carter Family, is the 2025 veterans era artist. Of course, her husband Johnny Cash is there as well.
“[She] represents the whole cloth of Country Music, its breadth and heritage,” the Cash family said in statement. “June's place in Country Music is undeniable. From the 1940s, across the decades and into the current century, her voice has been heard across the country and throughout much of the world.”
Brown, who played piano for Elvis Presley and produced a who’s who of icons like George Strait, Reba McEntire and Wynonna Judd, enters in the non-artist category.
“When you’re producing #1 records, you feel like you know what you’re doing,” Tony reflects. “But being inducted … especially for someone as idealistic as me – makes it feel like you’ve truly made an impact. And that has always been my goal.”
The three will officially be inducted into the Hall during a private Medallion Ceremony in the fall.
Reba McEntire and Carly Pearce turned out on Monday to help Trisha Yearwood elevate her star status, as she became the 2,805th addition to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“People tell you never to meet your heroes,” Carly said in her tribute. “But the woman that we are all celebrating today had made me and so many other aspiring country music singers think differently.”
Reba – who was Trisha’s early hero, much like Trisha was Carly’s – shared a similar sentiment.
“We are in the country music business, where girls stick together,” the Country Music Hall of Famer said. “We have fun together. We complain and gripe to each other because you can't do that with anybody else. Nobody else understands.”
The inductee herself was touched to see fans who’ve been supporting her since the very beginning.
“It's very surreal to be here,” Trisha remarked. “And the thing that makes it so special are the people who are here. I see a lot of faces who have been coming to see me live since 1991. And I love you, and you know that!”
Of course, Trisha’s husband, Garth Brooks, was also there to show his love.
“As many accolades and awards as he has won, I never see him get more excited than he does when I receive something,” she said of the superstar. “And for all the people that want this for me, nobody wants it more than you.”
Located in front of the Capitol Records building, “down a few stars from each other,” Trisha joked they’d figure out a way to link their stars and maybe “put (out) some bread crumbs or something.”
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday for an emergency stay of a district court judge’s decision that 16,000 federal probationary employees terminated in February across six agencies and departments be immediately reinstated.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an application Monday to “stay the injunction” issued by U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California that had ordered the Trump administration on March 13 to “”immediately offer reinstatement to any and all probationary employees terminated on or about February 13th and 14th 2025.” Alsup’s order earlier this month required six agencies — the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury — to reinstate probationary workers fired last month. Alsup’s order covered federal workers who were still in probationary status, or those generally in a one- or two-year trial period. The judge said the terminations were likely unlawful because the Office of Personnel Management did not have the authority to direct the firings.
Harris argued in the filing that the labor unions and nonprofit groups that challenged the mass firings lack standing, saying they have “hijacked the employment relationship between the federal government and its workforce,” claiming the judge’s order also violates separation of powers. Harris wrote: “This Court should not allow a single district court to erase Congress’s handiwork and seize control over reviewing federal personnel decisions — much less do so by vastly exceeding the limits on the scope of its equitable authority and ordering reinstatements en masse.”
Harris urged the high court to “end the interbranch power grab … Those orders have sown chaos as the Executive Branch scrambles to meet immediate compliance deadlines by sending huge sums of government money out the door, reinstating thousands of lawfully terminated workers, undoing steps to restructure Executive Branch agencies, and more. The lower courts should not be allowed to transform themselves into all-purpose overseers of Executive Branch hiring, firing, contracting, and policymaking.”
The firings of probationary workers is being undertaken by the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). More than 24,000 probationary workers were removed from their positions as part of the mass firings, involving 18 agencies.
A federal judge on Monday kept his block on deportation flights of alleged members of Venezuela’s crime gang Tren de Araragua under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
In a 37-page ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., wrote that Venezuelans whom the Trump administration wants to deport under the act should get a hearing on whether they are gang members. Boasberg wrote in his ruling: “The Court need not resolve the thorny question of whether the judiciary has the authority to assess this claim in the first place. That is because Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on another equally fundamental theory: Before they may be deported, they are entitled to individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all.”
Boasberg said use of the Alien Enemies Act “implicates a host of complicated legal issues” adding: “Federal courts are equipped to adjudicate that question when individuals threatened with detention and removal challenge their designation as such. Because the named Plaintiffs dispute that they are members of Tren de Aragua, they may not be deported until a court has been able to decide the merits of their challenge.”
Judge Boasberg was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by President George W. Bush in 2002 and elevated to the District Court in 2001 by President Barack Obama. Pres. Trump blasted the judge, writing on Truth Social: “This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President – He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
The Justice Administration believes it has authority under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act because they are a “hybrid criminal state” invading the United States though it has been only invoked in times of declared war against other countries. DOJ lawyers have argued in court filings that “The President’s action is lawful and based upon a long history of using war authorities against organizations connected to foreign states and national security judgments, which are not subject to judicial second guessing.”
An three-member appeals court heard oral arguments later on Monday on whether the lower court can hear and address the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants under an 18th-century wartime law, but did not issue a ruling. The three-judge panel consists of Judges Karen Henderson, Patricia Millett and Justin Walker — two of whom were appointed by a Republican president. The panel declined a bid from the Trump administration to immediately remove Judge James Boasberg from the case and lift a temporary restraining order on the deportations.
When Luke Bryan takes his Farm Tour to California for the first time in May, he’ll be bringing along his pal Tyler Hubbard.
“Luke's been a good buddy for a long time, and I've always heard about the Farm Tour and I’ve always heard stories, mainly from songwriters,” Tyler says of Luke’s annual trek. “I know he loves bringing writers out, which I'm also super excited about.”
“It sounds like a blast to set up a stage in the middle of a pasture and just throw a party,” Tyler adds. “That's kind of right up my alley, and I'm excited to be on those dates and excited to play some shows with Luke again. … It's gonna be a good time.”
American Idol winner Chayce Beckham is also on the Farm Tour dates, which start May 15 in Atwater, California.
