Carrie Underwood's awesome week got off to a roaring start at the CMT Music Awards.
Blake Shelton and NBC are putting together a benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims.
Kacey Musgraves hates the genre column on iTunes. It's the label to end all labels.
Already busy co-hosts Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan also will perform during this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.
John Grady recently handed Ashley Monroe a box filled with copies of her new album, "Like a Rose." He'd rushed out of the building and caught her in the parking lot. The arrival of the CDs was a milestone moment for the country singer-songwriter and her manager, the culmination of nearly a decade of work together.
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, "Old Yellow Moon" (Nonesuch)
They don't call him Chief for nothing: Eric Church is the top nominee at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.
They don't call him "Chief" for nothing: Eric Church is the top nominee at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.
The Grammys spread the love. Fun., whose anthemic and semi-dark jam "We Are Young" dominated the charts in 2012, won song of the year. Gotye's massive and oddball pop hit, "Somebody I Used to Know," picked up record of the year. And folk-rockers Mumford & Sons won album of the year for their platinum-selling "Babel."
Unlike last year, when the Grammys became the Adele show, each of the leading nominees in a diverse and eclectic field got a chance to bask in the spotlight of music's biggest night.
A warning not to show too much skin didn't seem to deter the stars out Sunday for the Grammy Awards.
A warning not to show too much skin didn't seem to deter the stars out Sunday for the Grammy Awards.
Kelly Clarkson is in good company backstage at the Grammys.
Show Bits brings you the 55th annual Grammy Awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
Grammy nominees Jack White, Carrie Underwood and the Lumineers will hit the Grammys stage next month.
"I just got a kiss from Lenny Kravitz," Miss Lambert said as she took the stage for her second trophy. "That was an award in itself."
Lambert wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
