They’re full lineup is coming soon…but they really don’t need anymore help in selling tickets with headliners like this.
“Boots In The Park” returns to Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque from May 14th-16th, 2027, headlined by King George Strait in his only festival performance of the year. Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Zach Top and Jon Pardi will grace the Boots in the Park’s festival stage.
Tickets pre-sales will happen Thursday, September 10th, at 10AM MT. General ticket sales begin Friday, September 11th, at 10AM MT.
And for everything you need to know about “Boots In The Park” 2027, please visit bootsinthepark.com.
If you were a fan of country music in the 2010’s…I’m pretty damn sure you heard of The Band Perry.
They came right out of the gate throwing major hits around, the siblings trio scored not one…but five Top 20 singles from their self-titled debut album from 2010. It included their “You Lie” along with their signature song, “If I Die Young”, which has since become one of the few country songs in history to be certified Diamond by the RIAA.
They followed their debut album up with their successful sophomore album in 2012 with, “Pioneer”, which contained another string of hits, including two #1s, “Better Dig Two” and “DONE”. It also two Top 10s on that sophomore album of theirs called “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” and “Chainsaw”. And I remember playing the hell out heir music on country radio as a music director at the time. We couldn’t get away from their music.
After that nice run, everything seemingly fell off the rails for the siblings trio as they were well on their way to superstardom throughout the rest of the 2010s.
Things literally got weird. They made some odd stylistic/image changes, ventured into pop and EDM and eventual a hiatus happened. Then of course during the hiatus, we saw the front woman, Kimberly Perry, try her hand at a solo career in 2023. And that didn’t really work out at all. Even though it contained a reimagining of their bands hit, “If I Die Young, Pt. 2”.
The Band Perry “returned” in 2025 with a brand new lineup within the group upon signing with Big Machine Label Group (BMLG). Now instead of the lineup consisting of siblings, Kimberly, Reid and Neil, now it’s simply Kimberly and her husband, Johnny Castello. It was announced upon that triumph return that Castello would be directly replacing Neil as a backing vocalist, while Reid departed the band in pursuit of artist management.
The Band Perry has released a string of new songs throughout 2026, including “PSYCHOLOGICAL”,“Buzzards” ,“Kill It” and an updated duet version of “You Lie” featuring Kaitlin Butts. Additionally, they were featured on the secondary stage at Nissan Stadium during the 2026 CMA Fest, where Kimberly and Johnny performed “If I Die Young” together. And looked like Johnny didn’t know some of the words to their songs.
There was a lot of drama behind the scenes though during all of it. Kimberly has also been doing a lot press touring since the return, to obviously reintroduce the band. The most notable interviews were with the Rolling Stoneand BobbyBones’ podcasts over the past year. It was during these interviews that she claimed that both of her brothers were completely on board with the current state of the band.
She even told Rolling Stone that both of them gave her their blessing to continue The Band Perry without them…
“Yeah, absolutely. I think they are very interested in The Band Perry getting landed as well. We are so proud of the past that we shared, and I think it’s just been about where does it go in the future. This was really my family band in the living room before anything else…
It’s just so cool to feel that love and support and to know that, ‘Hey guys, I’ve got this. Everything that we built was so magical and so beautiful. And I’m gonna go land this with the same integrity that we started it with.’ And of course, there’s always an open seat for a brother if they ever want to tour.”
According to Neil, that story wasn’t actually the real truth. As in it was kind of bs. Neil took to his Instagram to tell his side of the story.
His post including a scene from the television show “Succession” talking about the uncomfortable family feud and two contradictory answers from Kimberly on the podcasts, he would tell his side of the story in the caption. And he said a lot.
Stella Lefty is making herself known in the music world.
She recently made the news by copying Noah Kahan with her catchy ass song and people obviously kept calling her out on it. So, she had to give him songwriting credit on “Boston”…because of its similarity to his song “Stick Season”. Well, she did it again.
Dolly Parton has officially been laid to rest with a private funeral with immediate family on Friday. Her niece Lainey Partonconfirmed the news with a tribute of photos with her “Aunt Granny”.
She said, “this is a really hard post for me to make. I wanted to wait until after my granny was laid to rest yesterday before I tried to put any of this into words…
Because she couldn’t have kids of her own, she always made us feel like we were hers. She loved us that way, and I’ll forever be grateful for that.”
Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum also shared her official obituary.
In other Dolly news, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport announced Friday that they intend to rename the airport in her honor. As it should be.
The Grand Ole Opry paid tribute to Dolly on Saturday with the entire night in her honor. There were performances from Carly Pearce, Jelly Roll, Dolly’s niece Jada Star, Channing Wilson and more were all there to celebrate her life.
Kacey Musgraves performed in Boston on Friday (8/28/26) and after she sang “Golden Hour”, a small fire started on a scaffolding above the stage from the pyrotechnics.
She joked saying, “I have way too much hairspray to be standing under that shit.”
If you haven’t heard of Cledus T. Judd before, he’s been called the “Weird Al” Yankovic of country music. And he released a parody of Ella Langley’s“Be Her” called “Meet Her”.
Cledus was proud of this parody too. He said, “Dearest Ella. My friend Shania Twain changed my life in 1997 when my video ‘If Shania Was Mine’ was one of the most successful videos in CMT history.
Now 29 years later and over 40 music videos later I’m asking ya to help change my life again so I can catch up on my child support and pay off my vet bill from 2003…love you and hope to ‘Meet You’ someday soon.”
Now it appears Ella’s label are being haters. In a new video posted to social media, Cledus revealed that he received a demand from Sony Music telling him to take down the song.
“I’ve been doing these parodies and trying to make a living and a career out of doing them for the past 30 years, and it’s been an absolute wonderful journey doing them.
I don’t know how many I’ve done. Everybody from Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, Joe Diffie, Wynonna, Trace, Rascal Flatss, Toby. I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
And never in my 30 years, I don’t think I’ve ever had somebody not comment or say, ‘Great job,’ or ‘That sucks,’ or whatever the case may be.
But I got a letter this week … from Sony Music New York that said, ‘Hey, take the Ella tribute video down off your social medias, off the platforms everywhere. Get it down.’”
Cledus said the request caught him by surprise, but says that while he’s disappointed, he’s still a fan of Ella and all that she’s accomplished…
“Am I disappointed? Ridiculously, professionally and personally disappointed, because I’ve never done a song where I’ve beat up on the artist or took advantage of a bad situation, you know? I mean, it ain’t like I’m ever gonna do a parody of ‘Go Rest High on That Mountain.’But this one kind of shocked me. I know she never commented, and we got a little text from her attorney yesterday that just said she wasn’t interested in participating.”
He also noted the irony that the request came from Sony – a label to which he used to be signed. And he said, “I used to be an artist on Sony. I got records at Sony. I was a writer for Sony ATV and Nashville. Half my music catalog’s there, and they still said take it down.”
He said that he intends to honor the request and will be removing the song saying, “I guess everybody ain’t got a sense of humor like a lot of ’em do.”
It was a normal Friday night on August 28, 2026 at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati when the fall happened.
Tim McGrawfell onstage when his boot got caught in the flooring. He wasn’t embarrassed, because he’s damn professional y’all. He shared the moment on Instagram and said, “Cincinnati, you started our weekend off on the right foot even if I couldn’t stay on mine.”
Falls are going to happen onstage if you’re a performing artist. It’s the getting back up that really matters. The microphone stayed firmly planted in Tim’s hand the entire time, and he quickly popped back up with a smile. I don’t even think Luke Bryan can do that. And he falls onstage a lot.
Jelly Roll caused quite the shitshow this week while serving as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
After previously remaining pretty non-political and even he said one point that he didn’t identify with one part or the other because he lost his right to vote as a convicted felon. He decided to take the opportunity this week to throw several shots at President Donald Trump during his monologues. I’m sure Jimmy Kimmel was proud.
He joked about Trump’s physical fitness, the weekend IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., and compared his own recent 300-pound weight loss to losing “an entire Donald Trump”. That of course didn’t set well with Trump supporters at all, which I remember seeing Jelly in a video at laughing and joking around Trump like he really supported him.
Now after facing intense backlash from MAGA fans online, the country artist doubled down on his remarks during Tuesday’s broadcast, questioning why any U.S. president shouldn’t be able to handle a few lighthearted jokes.
He acknowledged that “some folks online were upset” that he didn’t “treat the president with reverence and dignity” during his opening monologue on Monday. To which he responded, “I want to remind y’all that I go by the name Jelly Roll. I don’t even treat myself with reverence and dignity.”
He also said as a President “they should also be able to handle gas prices, health care, and the occasional international conflict, but beggars can’t be choosers.” But God forbid you made jokes about Joe Biden and his illiterate ass, because that was labeled as hate speech.
Jelly continued saying, “for those who threatened to stop listening to my music based on my comments last night, I just want to say with conviction: Go right ahead, because I’m gonna keep speaking my truth or my name isn’t Post Malone.”
On Jelly’s last night of hosting for Jimmy, he confirmed that he was, in fact, the one behind the jabs at the president. He said…
“A lot of people seem to think these Jimmy Kimmel writers have secretly been pulling the strings and forcing this good old country boy to poke fun at our commander-in-chief. But let’s be real about this, y’all. Do you think I would take orders from some sweaty little dork named Josh?
No, I was just telling it like it is. And for some reason, that seemed to freak a lot of people out. I guess now that I’ve lost all this weight, folks can finally see I have balls.”
Jelly Roll went on to speak about how he felt he “fumbled” his answer at the Grammy Awards when asked to give his thoughts on what was going on in the country right now.
“For the last six months, I’ve watched people decide who I am, what I am, what I believe, what I support, and what I don’t support. And I felt that even more this week, just because I told a couple of jokes.And that night at the Grammys, I had an opportunity to speak up for people who were scared, hurting, and felt like nobody was speaking for them. I had a microphone and I didn’t use it the right way.”
Jelly said that he plans to be more open about political topics going forward, especially now that his right to vote has been restored thanks to the pardon from Tennessee governor Bill Lee.
“So, I’m going to try to do the right thing right now because human dignity isn’t Republican nor Democrat. Compassion isn’t leftwing and mercy isn’t right-wing. Pain and healing knows no partisanship. Hurting hearts are more important than poll numbers. And there are no boundaries or borders for broken families.”
He also defended shaking hands with President Trump back in 2024, saying that his late father was a veteran who would have been disappointed if he didn’t shake the hand of any US president, and vowing to be more compassionate going forward.
“Tomorrow, I’m going to try a little harder than I did today to love my neighbor, cause sometimes they’re not all the way lovable. And I hope y’all will do the same thing.”
Jelly even cried like a bitch on national television just like Jimmy does when he says dumb shit and gets a lot of backlash. Again…I bet Jimmy was proud of his friend, Jelly in being just like Jimmy.
Now I do agree with Jelly Roll in the fact that “human dignity isn’t Republican nor Democrat”, because it’s not. Politics is trashy and full of hypocrites. And it always will be. Mainly because people are far from being perfect. I’m also proud to live a country where we can tell jokes and have freedom of speech. That’s I will always say and believe the Democrats are the real retards in this country…and I see you Jelly.
I don’t really care for this man much, but his music is pretty good…and I am a fan how winston’s and whiskey smell too.
Zach Bryantreated the crowd in Arlington, Texas on Saturday to a new song. It’s called “Robot Killed the Working Man”, and it’s about the rise of A.I. and technology killing the working class.
It’s unclear if it’ll be on Zach’s upcoming EP, “Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs”. He hasn’t announced a release date for it, yet neither.
Fans believe they have cracked the code in figuring out who is featured on Luke Bryan’s upcoming album, “Signs”.
It’s Luke Combs. The song is “Finders Keepers” and Combs’ name briefly appeared online on the Genius track list. Fans also found pre-order listings for the album showing Track 1 as “Finders Keepers featuring Luke Combs”. Neither of the Lukes have confirmed it though.
Luke Bryan teased an announcement with a video that cut off before revealing the name. He tried blaming the video being cut off due to being “out in the country” and having bad service. He captioned the first video saying, “this feature has been a long time coming and I can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”
