Yearly Archives: 2026

One of Kentucky’s finest. The redheaded queen, Wynonna Judd, is still laying down heaters over 40 years into her career. The country music icon is getting back to her roots as a songwriter, and sharing what is on the horizon, for fans over the weekend in Indio, California. Country music fans flocked to the desert this weekend to see the country version of Coachella, Stagecoach. The stacked festival, taking place right after the massive two-weekend Coachella festival, features some of […]

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Back to back river derbs in the Bassmaster Elite Series, and while this one allowed forward facing sonar, the Arkansas River proved to be a heavy cover special. As with any large river system, anglers had to consider how far they wanted to run from the tournament’s host city, Muskogee, Oklahoma (shoutout Merle Haggard), at the chance for better bass conditions. Of course, running up or down the river, and locking, dealing with barge traffic… it can really take away […]

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Conventionally, there is no place, no plan, no path for a band like this. But The Red Clay Strays defy all of these conventions to the point where they’re now one of the biggest bands in all of roots music.

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Some records announce themselves with a bang. Vincent Neil Emerson’s Blue Stars does something tougher. It settles in, tells the truth, and lets the weight of the songs do the heavy lifting. That makes it a natural fit beside Guy Clark’s Old No. 1, a record that helped define how Texas songwriting could be plain, precise, and quietly devastating. Beyond sound or geography, the connection is a shared belief that the smallest details often carry the biggest truths.

The wild trend sees TikTokers storming Scientology church buildings in order to go as deep in them as possible. People are even making maps.

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‘Dega, baby. The NASCAR Cup Series is at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama this weekend for the Jack Link’s 500, and as is usually the case at the sport’s biggest track, you never really know what’s going to happen. The first stage of the race was a fuel mileage game, with teams playing different strategies to make it to the end of the stage. Ryan Preece led a group of Fords to win the first stage, but it wasn’t long into […]

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A viral video on social media shows the Waymo driverless vehicle coming to a stop, before a cop approaches the window to speak to support.

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Three people have died in a rare surge of snake bite incidents in California, with experts calling the spike unusual.

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The North Dakota representative had just boarded a plane north of Minneapolis when disaster struck, and it crashed just after takeoff.

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College athlete Graycen Vargo has died after collapsing during a track championship, leaving his university community in mourning.

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