Music News

The 15th annual ACM Honors, hosted by Carly Pearce, went down this week at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium with Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, Morgan Wallen, Shania Twain and more among this year’s honorees, and several big-name stars on hand to pay tribute to them.

The University of Texas (UTA) in Austin is set to launch a new course all about Taylor Swift this autumn. The class is called “The Taylor Swift Songbook” and it’ll explore her songwriting. Her songs will be read alongside Shakespeare, Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, and Keats. Course texts include her albums “Folklore,” “Evermore,” “Lover,” and her reissue of “Red.”

Miranda Lambert has made some concert plans for next year. The singer has been announced as the second headliner for the 2023 edition of Florida’s Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam.

Two of this past season’s most popular “American Idol” contestants are hitting the road together. Current champ Noah Thompson and runner-up HunterGirl are teaming up for an eight-city fall tour that will kick off October 27^th in Columbus, Ohio.

Blanco Brown is hitting the road this fall. The singer just announced dates for his “Monster Energy Outbreak Tour,” kicking off October 6^th in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Rhett is bringing his “Bring The Bar To You” Tour up North. The singer just announced a set of Canadian dates for next year.

• Group chats can make it easy to communicate with your family or besties, but there are some unwritten rules to group chat etiquette.
• First up, don’t ask everyone to summarize chats you missed or to catch you up.
• And don’t have one-on-one conversations, that’s what direct messages are for.
• Source: Huff Post

• Career coach Ashley Stahl shares the do’s and don’ts of how to feel more energetic at work.
• Do eat breakfast, pack snacks, drink water, and eat protein and complex carbs.
• Don’t eat simple sugars, drink coffee after 3p.m., or take naps longer than 30 minutes.
• Source: Forbes

• Love languages are the different ways we prefer to give and receive love and it turns out, they don’t just apply to romantic relationships.
• There are work love languages, which are basically our working styles and what we need to feel happy and appreciated in the workplace.
• This is a breakdown of the five different work love languages: acts of service, quality time, words of affirmation, tangible gifts and money.
• Source: Metro

• Jon Pardi booked for “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon”
• Luke Combs turns down young fans proposal
• Michael Ray dropping new EP
• Niko Moon and wife expecting
• Jeannie Seely makes Grand Ole Opry history