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United Airlines officially opened a new 150,000-square-foot building at its Flight Training Center in Denver on Thursday, marking a milestone in its quest to hire 10,000 new pilots by 2030. United, the largest carrier at Denver International Airport, spent more than $145 million on the new building. The airline said the addition to the 23-acre campus in northeast Denver will allow it to conduct more than 32,000 training events annually and train up to 860 pilots daily. The training center, which United said is the largest…

Mavis Staples will celebrate her birthday a few months early with the star-studded Mavis Staples 85th: All Star Birthday Concert. The event, scheduled for April 18 at Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater, will feature a headlining performance from the gospel and soul singer herself, with additional appearances from Chris Stapleton, Grace Potter, Black Pumas, Hozier, Norah Jones, and more. (Staples turns 85 on July 10.) “At the end of last year, I was talking about retiring,” Staples shared in a statement. “But after…

T-Pain was at a karaoke party last year when an R&B-flavored country ballad starting playing over the system. The rapper-turned-singer didn’t recognize it, so he opened up Shazam to listen — and the result came back as “Tennessee Whiskey,” by Chris Stapleton. “I made it a part of my ‘sad playlist,’” T-Pain tells RS. “The lyrics spoke to me.” Songs from decades past are routinely revived or rediscovered, and that’s currently happening in a big way with “Tennessee Whiskey,” a 44-year-old honky-tonk song about…

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, the Killers, Vampire Weekend, Bonnie Raitt and hundreds more set to invade the Big Easy this spring The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, the Killers, and Bonnie Raitt highlight the 2024 Jazz Fest lineup as the venerated festival returns to New Orleans from April 25 to May 5. Vampire Weekend, Queen Latifah, Heart, Bomba Estéreo, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Earth, Wind & Fire, Widespread Panic, and the Beach…

Country star's first LP since 2021's Starting Over arrives Nov. 10 Chris Stapleton will return in November with Higher, the country star’s first album since his award-winning 2020 LP Starting Over. Ahead of Higher’s Nov. 10 release, Stapleton has shared the album’s rocking first single, “White Horse,” co-written by Stapleton and Dan Wilson (of Semisonic fame). The pair previously collaborated on Stapleton’s 2015 track “When the Stars Come Out.”…

Garth Brooks named Dolly Parton the GOAT of country music, Chris Stapleton won his first-ever entertainer of the year title and Lainey Wilson continued her rise to stardom at the 2023 Academy of Country Music Awards. Parton closed the two-hour awards show Thursday with a performance of her rock anthem “World on Fire,” taken from her upcoming rock debut Rock Star. The song features lyrics like, “Don’t get me started on politics/Now how are we to live in a world like this?” Fire burst from the…

Fasten your seatbelts and make sure your flight trays are in an upright position because a new brewery is preparing to take off at the former Stapleton International Airport control tower. FlyteCo Tower, at 3120 Uinta St, Denver is the second outpost of Denver-based FlyteCo Brewing, which in December announced it was moving into a building at the base of the tower thanks to a series of events that co-owner Morgan O’Sullivan could only describe as serendipitous. It’s expected to open in mid-August. Helen H. Richardson, The…