• The Swon Brothers Are Headed to the Opry

    Zach and Colton, the Swon Brothers, captured America's heart as finalists on Team Blake in Season 4 of NBC’s "The Voice." Now, two years later and getting ready to release their debut album with Arista Nashville, the siblings are living the dream as they prepare to play on the famous Grand Ole Opry stage.

  • Reba McEntire Is Embroiled in Two Lawsuits

    After a worker was injured setting up for a Reba concert, he is suing the country music star as well as the concert promoter. The promoter, AEG, is, in turn, also suing Reba because they say one of her crew members caused the accident.

  • Countdown to Sundown With Tim McGraw

    Tim McGraw's new album, "Sundown Heaven Town," will be hitting stores on September 16, 2014. This weekend, during the Academy of Country Music Awards show, the country star will kick off a new and unique program called "Countdown to Sundown" to promote the album. When fans use their Shazam smartphone app during his performance on the show, they can join the Countdown program which gives them access to exclusive content and a chance to win a season pass for two tickets to each of Tim’s Sundown Heaven summer tour dates, including an all-expenses-paid trip to the opening-night show on May 8.

  • IMMERSE 2014

    The countdown is on for the IMMERSE - the Gospel Music Association's sixth annual conference for developing artists, songwriters and worship leaders. Scheduled for June 22-25, 2014, the 4-day event will be held at the LifeWay Christian Resources corporate headquarters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

  • EXCLUSIVE: Incan Abraham Talks West Coast Stereotypes, Peruvian Soda and Debut Album, 'Tolerance'

    It's no longer freezing in New York after months of snow and gloomy weather. Could the members of Incan Abraham have brought some Los Angeles warmth with them? As they sit on a bench outside of The Brooklyn Bowl, they speak of their upcoming album, Tolerance, as a "tombstone" of sorts. It's the band's debut LP, but they describe it as quite literally a record of the years they've worked leading up to this point.

  • Jack White to produce The World's Fastest Released Record on Record Store Day

    On April 1, Jack White announced the details of his second solo LP, Lazaretto, due out via Third Man Records on June 10 and shared the instrumental track "High Ball Stepper." Now he's come up with a creative way to drop the album's first single and title track. Following other creative release strategies such as tying singles to helium balloons and inventing the triple decker vinyl record, this time around he will produce the World's Fastest Released Record, studio-to-store.

  • The Bowling Family on Tour [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Mike Bowling, his wife Kelly, their daughter Hope and longtime friend Troy Peach make up The Bowling Family, The talented group spends a lot of time on the road, sharing the gospel through music and testimony. Their spring and early summer schedule is proof of how much they love sharing Jesus as they are all over the place.

  • Reggae performer Vybz Kartel gets life sentence for murder conviction

    The trial of Jamaican reggae performer Vybz Kartel has ended with a life sentence being handed down for a conviction on charges of murder. The emcee's legal team will appeal the decision, which will add another six to 12 months onto the process, but if the decision is upheld, Kartel will face at least 35 years behind bars before getting the possibility of parole.

  • Classicalite's Five Best: Biggest YouTube Music Hitters

    Ah, YouTube. Repository of some of the finest classical rarities just waiting to be chanced upon by some digital adventurer. But YouTube has its classical blockbusters as well -- videos that have attracted a critical mass of page views. They're not always the most obvious. Sometimes indeed the performers aren't even known. But here are five of the most-viewed classical videos we could find...

  • Conductors in Conversation, No. 2: Harry Bicket

    Englishman Harry Bicket made his name in Handel and early music, and succeeded Trevor Pinnock at the helm of the English Concert. He has quite recently take the top job at Santa Fe Opera and records for the Avie label, among others. He spoke to Classicalite's James Inverne about being
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