OMG! The 2019 American Music Awards were relentless, weren't they? How can you beat the live lineup including Selena Gomez doing 2 of her latest hits, Ciara, Lizzo, Thomas Rhett, Shawn Mendez/Camillo Cabello collaboration, Kesha, Toni Braxton, Billie Eilish, Halsey, Green Day and the Jonas Brothers. As if that wasn't enough, Taylor Swift, the de facto queen of pop music captivated us all as she accepted her Artist of the Decade award. It must be nice to have such a wide and beloved catalog of songs she can turn [...]

We all know that the best country songs share a couple of the same ingredients--three chords and the truth. But what does it take to make a Country Music Association's Award show?

Coachella is the latest victim of the novel coronavirus. Even the ubiquitous Coachella--the darling of late night talk shows and spawner of what seem like 10,000 skits--is no match for the pandemic. Fortunately, the weather in California is as pleasant and perfect for a music festival in October as it is for April, so the new dates are now: First weekend:  10/09 through 10/11 Second weekend: 10/16 through 10/18 Considering how much publicity Coachella gets, it's a safe bet that the bands that were scheduled for April have already [...]

The Academy of Country Music announced that it has rescheduled the ACM Awards due to the novel coronavirus. Everybody living in Nashville is hunkered down, self-isolated to prevent a worsening of the potentially deadly pandemic that has already claimed the life of Joe Diffie, the beloved long term Grand Ole Opry member who penned many songs that made the charts for many artists, including himself. The 55th annual ACM Awards will now go down on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m., which is a Wednesday night. The rescheduled Academy of [...]

Swing Into 2020 With the ACM Country Music Awards You and I and most good people work all day for a paycheck that arrives every other week. Country stars work all year hoping to snatch a few accolades during awards season, and the Academy of Country Music Awards is among the most coveted.  All the real fans have a few dates marked on their calendar, and every year, the night that the ACM awards are bestowed on the best of the best is prominently marked. It's a night [...]

Are you a Fashionista? Stay on top of the game. Be here, there and everywhere for your first glimpse of the upcoming 2021 Fashion Weeks.  Could they have possibly made it harder to see them all?  It used to be that the U.S. show was not expected to be as grand as the road-warrior version of the French.  So we skipped the U.S. dates and went for the Paris and Milan shows, just because we love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles, as Cole Porter used to say. [...]

The nice thing about having your own awards show is that you can decide what awards to give and what a person or group would have to do to earn said award.  Some award shows are little more than excuses for a good party (heck, all of them are, in reality), and toward that end, when a show needs a little kick to get started or to reach a higher gear, it can always add another category or style to the list of awards and have yet another performance.  [...]