Category Archives: NCD News

Almost seven years after winning Season 10 of American Idol, Scotty McCreery has scored his first No. 1 single as “Five More Minutes” ascended to the top of both the Mediabase and Billboar...

If you want to catch the “Cowboy” onstage in 2018, you’d better get cracking.George Strait is only scheduled to play a handful of dates this year, including stops in New Orleans, Aus...

Jim Casey talks with Randy Rogers about:his very successful 2017writing his first songs as an 11-year-oldthe best song he’s ever written, “In My Arms Instead”the healing power of mus...

Dwight Yoakam will curate a new channel on SiriusXM, Dwight Yoakam & The Bakersfield Beat, which will feature music from his career as well his musical friends and heroes, including Buck Owens, Th...

After topping the charts this week with the lead single, “Legend,” from her sophomore album, Unapologetically, Kelsea Ballerini announced her next single will be “I Hate Love Songs.&...

In the lead-up to the premiere of Season 14 of The Voice on Feb. 26, the coaches-Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys-paired off to perform a couple of vintage Vegas tunes in a n...

As Jordan Davis gears up for the March 23 release of his debut album, Home State, the project’s lead single, “Singles You Up,” is now a Top 10 hit on Billboard's Country Airplay char...

Zac Brown, Niko Moon and Ben Simonetti of Sir Rosevelt stopped by the NCD office to talk about the trio’s new self-titled album, which features 11 dance-worthy songs that fuse elements of pop, d...

Angela (Angie) Gentry, the widow of Montgomery Gentry’s Troy Gentry, has filed a lawsuit against Sikorsky Aircraft Co. and Keystone Helicopter Co., the manufacturers of the helicopter Troy was i...

Carrie Underwood donated $10,000 to the GoFundMe account of Justin Durrett, an assistant police chief in her hometown of Checotah, Okla., who was injured in an automobile crash on Feb. 11.Carrie donat...