Daily Archives: December 13, 2025

Making history. This weekend, Riley Green and Ella Langley scored their second #1 hit together with their duet “Don’t Mind If I Do,” which topped the Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, one of two charts labels use to officially track their songs performance. It marks Riley’s fourth Country Airplay #1 and Ella’s second, and they’re now just the second pair since the list launched in January 1990 to have earned multiple collaborative #1s, after Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani led in […]

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Getting in the Christmas spirit. After an incredibly successful year, Morgan Wallen is slowing down and taking the time to reflect on some of his favorite holiday traditions. The country superstar was named Billboard’s #1 all-genre artist of 2025 this week, beating out the likes of Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Super Bowl halftime show headliner Bad Bunny, and more. With his placement as the Top Artist of 2025, he is the first country artist to secure the #1 […]

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You know who Theo is rooting for in the Heisman race. Tonight is the 2025 Heisman Trophy ceremony to name the top player in college football. The finalists this year include three quarterbacks in Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia, Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza and Ohio State’s Julian Sayin, as well as Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love. The favorite going into the night seems to be Mendoza, after the Indiana Hoosiers defeated Sayin and Ohio State last weekend in the Big Ten championship, […]

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Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks shared a special moment onstage this week, and fans were loving it. Watch the video here.

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Disney is closing their Aerosmith-themed rollercoaster attraction to make room for something a little different. Here’s what we know so far.

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This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for fresh new holiday tracks from Sara Milonovich & Daisycutter, Drew & Ellie Holcomb, Jake Shimabukuro, The Klezmatics, and The Doohickeys, along with seasonal favorites from the Indigo Girls, JD McPherson, Sierra Ferrell, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Plus, we remember the late Raúl Malo of The Mavericks, who passed away on December 8th. In Hour Two, we dive into the results of our Best of 2025 Folk Alley Listener Poll. Enjoy an hour of music that resonated the strongest with Folk Alley listeners this year including songs from Alison Krauss & Union Station, Jason Isbell, Mavis Staples, and much more.

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The NPR Tiny Desk Concert we actually needed. This week, bluegrass wizard himself, Billy Strings, finally got his chance to do his own episode of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series Part of making it big in the music industry is getting invited to participate in the series, and while it can be a little gimmicky, many artists and bands see it as an honor to play the Tiny Desk venue. People like Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Post Malone and many others have […]

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Peter Greene, the actor who played a notorious villain in Pulp Fiction, has died. Read more about his life story here.

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Riley Green’s duet with Ella Langley “Don’t Mind If I Do,” which was the title track to Riley’s 2024 third studio album, is on pace to go number one sometime in the very near future, and it’s actually a solo write by Riley. I’m telling you, there’s just something about when he writes alone that works… another example that comes to mind is “Jesus Saves.” They’re just some of his best songs, and that is NOT easy to do, actually, […]

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