Lucinda Williams

The Outlaw Country Cruise is setting sail for its ninth year. The 2025 voyage will launch Feb. 22 and run through Feb. 28 with performances from Old Crow Medicine Show, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones, and more. This will mark the first Outlaw Country Cruise since the death of the ship’s regular emcee and performer, Mojo Nixon, who died during February’s cruise. Asleep at the Wheel, Carlene Carter, the Earls Of Leicester, Jesse Dayton, Elizabeth…

Definitive biographies, revelatory memoirs, essential history, and more Our favorite books this year (listed here in alphabetical order) included memoirs from Britney Spears, Geddy Lee, Geezer Butler, Tariq Trotter of the Roots, and other iconic artists, as well as two great additions to the Beatles library, a groundbreaking biography of Lou Reed, and fascinating histories of goth, 2000s emo, and Sixties girl groups.…

Pop-country, stomp n' clap folk country, Red Dirt, stoner country, and even grunge country helped give the genre one of its most impactful years in decades You know those people who say they listen to everything but country music? Even they were streaming and spinning many of these albums this year. Country had an undeniable moment in 2023, one informed by an influx of exciting new artists like Megan Moroney and Stephen Wilson Jr., a growing mainstream appeal for subgenres like…