“Oye como va!” Guitar hero Carlos Santana helped raise nearly $40,000 toward fighting hunger.
In November, Santana partnered with Three Square Food Bank, World Hunger Year (WHY) and AEG Live to help children in need by collecting food and monetary donations at his resident show, Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits, at The Joint at [...]

The Alabama-born sibling trio of Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry debut with an effervescent single that’s just off-center enough to raise eyebrows while it’s tickling eardrums. “Hip to My Heart” has an oddball stutter-stop meter in the lyrics that adds a catchy zing to playful lines like, “All the girls in town look you [...]

One time Nashville Star winner Chris Young had some difficulty making a breakthrough at country radio before his previous single, the frisky “Getting You Home” (The Black Dress Song), became a No. 1 hit in October.
The follow-up could easily repeat that success, as Chris’ fine-grained classic-county voice takes on a rock-solid ballad about he universal [...]

Country singer Carrie Underwood opened up to Esquire magazine, revealing what she really thinks of her ex-boyfriend and NFL player Tony Romo.
The publication asked the country crooner if her song “Cowboy Casanova” was about Dallas Cowboy quarterback, Romo, who had a very public breakup this year with another performer, Jessica Simpson.  Underwood responded, saying, “No. [...]

Taylor Swift reports that she has already written more than half of the songs she plans to include on her upcoming third album. So far, all the songs that she’s chosen for the album were penned by Taylor alone. “It’s been really, really awesome,” she says. “Songwriting is kind of involuntary for me. It’s how [...]

Leighton Meester may be best know as the star of “Gossip Girl”, but her music’s about to take center stage.
The actress was recently cast as a country singer opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw in the upcoming movie, “Love Don’t Let Me Down”, and her still-untitled solo album is reportedly set for release in February [...]

With 11 different producers for 13 tracks, you’d think 17-year-old Allison Iraheta would need a miracle to create a cohesive debut disc. But nope, the muscular, instantly recognizable growl that carried her to a fourth-place finish on American Idol’s eighth season is all she needs to seamlessly wed a collection of first-rate ditties, from the [...]

The simmering centerpiece of Keith’s “Defying Gravity” album has been a favorite since the album’s release, so much so, that the Keith-focused Urban Country Blog site started a petition to demand its release as a summer-time single.
The season has already come and gone, but now “Til Summer Comes Around” is indeed a single. It’s actually [...]

The pop charts love her, yet Paris Hilton hates her.
Who is this outrageous dance-pop party girl behind the smash hit “TiK ToK” and why does she spell her name with a dollar sign?
“It was me taking the piss out of the fact that I was broke while being on a No.1 record. (She sang on [...]

Alicia Keys has established herself as an increasingly rare thing in pop music: “The class act.” It’s made her a consistently gratifying album artist, if not always an immediately dazzling one.
The Element of Freedom’s fist single, the pensive love-is-the-drug ballad “Doesn’t Mean Anything,” seemed to get lost among its more aggressive chart peers when it [...]