Subject: Keith Urban

• Rage Peppers, Forget Cassettes, American Bang, MC 24/7: Your Cream Weekend Planner

  Well, you made it through another week. How are you going to cut loose, now that late start times are no excuse for staying home? On Friday, one question you could ask yourself is, "Am I feeling at all '90s-core?" If the answer is yes, you've got two promising options. Option 1: Forget Cassettes will be playing the loud-quiet-loud stuff with Sincerity Guild & Nite Nite at The End. If you're also feeling a little angst-y, post-rock-y, or eyeliner-y. Option 2: Rage Against the Machine and Red H

  December 5, 2008

• Tamworth: The Nashville of Australia, kind of

  Not exactly Dolly Parton (Courtesy of Fairfax Media)On the other side of the map, in the New South Wales town of Tamworth (pop. 42,000 and some change) Keith Urban may have gotten his start, locals say, plucking and crooning like any other sad-sack in Nashville, desperate for a look at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. It began in 1969, when a local radio station that played country decided to anoint Tamworth the Country Music Capitol. Nearly 40 years later, its 2007 event drew 50,000 enthusi

  December 18, 2008

• Maybe Keith Urban Is Born to Love--Maybe He Isn't

  Call off the dogs already, Keith Urban's fifth studio album has not yet been titled! I know, I know, you thought it was going to be called Born to Love, and hell, maybe it is. But he hasn't decided yet! Give the guy a break. It's not even out until March. So until then, pins and needles, folks, pins and needles. From his publicist: While there is speculation at some media sources as to the title of the new Keith Urban album, scheduled to hit stores on March 31, please note that there has been n

  January 14, 2009

• The Ninth Annual Nashville Scene Country Music Critics Poll: The Charts vs. the Critics

  January 15, 2009

• The Ninth Annual Nashville Scene Country Music Critics Poll: The Results

  January 15, 2009

• Happy Birthday Billy Block Show

  Since its modest beginning at the Sutler club 13 years ago, Billy Block's weekly showcase of national and local country artists has blossomed into a local institution. The performances are now broadcast on WKDF and streamed online. In his tenure, Block has hosted the likes of Allison Moorer, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Keith Urban, Hank III, Marty Stuart and Deirks Bentley among others. So if you aren't one of those "anything but country" people, be sure to head down to 12th & Porter tomo

  February 16, 2009

• Comments:

  January 24, 2008

• Grocery Story

  December 13, 2007

• Future Perfect

  December 6, 2007

• Damian’s Lair

  Autumn’s here—cozy up to the fire and lie back on the bearskin rug of love

  September 13, 2007

• The Bold and the Beautiful

  Country radio’s female voices just got younger and gutsier

  August 30, 2007

• CMA Music Festival

  In country music, you know you’ve really made it when you don’t appear at the CMA Music Festival.

  June 7, 2007

• Seize the Day

  Country's biggest hitmakers are gonna lift your spirits, damn it

  September 30, 2004

• Words of the Week

  February 8, 2007

• Comments From the Critics

  January 25, 2007

• Love Buzz

  New releases from Keith Urban and Sugarland traffic in nostalgia, but never seem retro

  November 9, 2006

• The City That Lost Its Country

  LA’s last country radio station goes pop

  August 31, 2006

• Nashville4Africa at Schermerhorn

  April 16, 2009

• Midnight Oil

  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s John McEuen on satellite radio, banjo and surprise hits

  June 15, 2006

• The Spin

  March 16, 2006

• Country Music Critics’ Poll 2006

  The Winners

  January 19, 2006

• Boner Awards 2005

  The Scene honors the year’s worst, wildest and weirdest newsmakers

  December 22, 2005

• Caught Live in ’05

  December 15, 2005

• Country Boys Take Manhattan

  Brooks & Dunn redeem their careers and ride the CMAs to the Big Apple

  November 10, 2005

• The Spin

  July 14, 2005

• Summer Events

  From Beethoven to Big & Rich, Nashville's got it

  May 19, 2005

• What They Said

  Comments from the critics who took part in this year's poll

  January 27, 2005

• The Winners

  Albums

  January 27, 2005

• Why Country Bands Suck

  Bands might be the backbone of rock 'n' roll, but on Music Row, few are any good, much less commercially viable

  November 4, 2004

• Having

  Untying the knots

  August 5, 2004

• Best Musician

  February 12, 2004

• A Face In The Crowd

  March 6, 2003

• Not Like Real People

  Images on CMT don’t reflect life as most people live it

  September 26, 2002

• List

  June 21, 2001

• New, Improved

  Seven new acts who just might give hope to country music

  February 24, 2000

• Industry

  October 16, 1997

• Stephen Garrett CD Release at the Basement

  June 25, 2009

• Keith Urban Gets KISS'd by Taylor Swift

  You gotta admit: as pranks go, this one's pretty good. The other night in Kansas City, Taylor Swift and her band stormed the stage during Keith Urban's "Kiss a Girl," dressed, well, as KISS. (Via The Boot.)

  August 18, 2009

• Nathan Bell writes hits for a braver world

  August 20, 2009

• Weekend Round-Up: Alaska Style Part 2

  This dude is now dead to me. Not really.​Friday night sure was fantastic. And I'm not just saying that because I wrote this yesterday afternoon and scheduled it to be posted later. Here's what's up on this fine Saturday evening: A very special Cortney Tidwell in-store at Grimey's in celebration of her new record, Boys. There may or may not be beer and cookies, but there will definitely be some remarkable music. 4 p.m. sharp. Bittersweets at The Basement. James Wallace and the Naked Light

  August 29, 2009

• Keith Urban at Sommet Center

  August 27, 2009

• Best of Nashville 2009: Readers' Poll

  October 15, 2009

• Gary Allan at The Ryman

  November 12, 2009

• Morning Roundup: The Smell of Money, Politics, Music and New Carpet

  ​Today's the day that Mayor Karl Dean will finally unveil a financing package for the proposed new convention center. It happens at 5 pm at a special joint meeting of two Metro Council committees. But will it include a hotel, and if it doesn't will the numbers work? ... The Metro Sports Authority could act today to make the name change from Sommet Center back to Nashville Arena official. ... A black former TSU police officer sues the university charging retaliation in connection with a white

  December 3, 2009

• Country Music Critics' Poll - Voter Comments

  January 7, 2010

• Country Music Critics' Poll - The Results

  January 7, 2010

• Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, The Dead Weather and More Chart in Pazz and Jop 2009

  Yesterday, the Village Voice's yearly Pazz and Jop poll results went live. (Remember when D.P.R. was filling out his ballot?) To the shock and amazement of this one guy who lives in Jersey, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion topped the albums chart. If you've been near an Internet in the past year, most of the Top 10 probably won't surprise you much: Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, The xx, Dirty Projectors and so forth. Meanwhile, to the mild shock and bemusement of this critic, Jay-Z's "Empi

  January 20, 2010

• Casme Opens for Johnny Neel at Exit/In

  January 21, 2010

• Ya Za Wants You to Record for Haiti Benefit EP

  ​I don't know how many of you watched the Haiti telethon Friday night, but I have to say: I haven't hated Sting this little in years! (The presence of ?uestlove on drums might have had something to do with it, but damn if "Driven to Tears" didn't sound like a smart song.) I had to really fight the automatic barf/punch reflex when I saw Kid Rock singing with Sheryl Crow and Keith Urban, too, because, after all, he was doing a good thing. A good thing. I had to keep saying that. I was disapp

  January 25, 2010

• Spotted: John Mayer and Taylor Swift at 'Hot Spot' Cabana

  ​If you're hot on the beast's trail that is Twitter, you might already know about the sizzling culinary celeb spotting yesterday that has all the entertainment rags, uh, atwitter: John Mayer and Taylor Swift were spotted right here in Nashville collaborating over dinner. Do any of you care? Fuck no. So. I answer all your questions after the jump, so you don't have to read this article!

  January 25, 2010