Five years ago, a conversation about country music festival tourism in Florida would have centered almost entirely on traveling fans passing through on their way to theme parks. That has changed, and we have been tracking the shift from the inside. Today, Greater Orlando is developing a country music event identity that stands on its…
Monday's chart update stopped us cold. Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen have officially taken "I Can't Love You Anymore" to No. 1 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart, knocking Langley's own "Choosin' Texas" off the top spot it had dominated for weeks. This is the moment we have been watching build all summer, and the Ella…
August is barely a week old and fall 2026 is already looking ridiculous for country music. We sat down and mapped out every confirmed album release between now and December 31, and the conclusion is clear: the next four months are going to do serious damage to your streaming hours. Eight projects stand above the…
Nineteen tracks. Four country legends. One Alabama-bred artist who has been quietly building toward this moment for the better part of a decade. We pulled up the full track list for Riley Green's upcoming album That's Just Me this week, and we have to say, this is shaping up to be one of the most…
Here is something we have been thinking about since we started building Sunset Country Fest: not every country music festival earns what it promises. We have studied the model from the inside and the outside, talked to fans who have done the circuit, and read the post-event breakdowns from some of the biggest names in…
We had been tracking the expansion of The Hondo Rodeo Fest across the country when the announcement dropped: Tampa is next. February 26-28, 2027, Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, becomes the third city to host one of the most electrifying country and rodeo events in the United States. Fifty thousand fans…
Sixty seconds into Kameron Marlowe's new single "Running," we already knew he had something different on his hands. Released in 2026 as part of a steady stream of new music following his 2025 album Sad Songs For the Soul, the track lands in a place that feels increasingly rare in modern country: emotionally direct, melodically…
August 21, 2026 is the final night of HARDY's Country! Country! Tour, and we have been paying close attention to this run since it kicked off in Oshawa, Ontario back in February. What started as a triumphant headline tour for one of country music's most versatile voices grew into something we did not fully see…
Walk into any country music festival at 6 PM, then walk into almost any other type of concert at the same hour. The difference is not the music. It is the people, and how they treat each other. We have spent time at festivals and shows across the country, from stadium spectacles to small outdoor…
August 21 is circled on our calendar, and it has been since the moment Zach Top stepped onto the stage at Under the Big Sky Festival in Montana on July 18 and performed a song nobody in the crowd had ever heard before. That song was Good Girls & Cowgirls, and it has been living…
Two questions come to us constantly from country fans across the Greater Orlando area: Where is the festival, and how do we get there? If you have been following Sunset Country Fest, you already know the answer to the first one. Sunset Country Fest 2027 is a country music festival taking place in Apopka, Florida,…
We have been watching Corey Kent build toward this moment for years. Every packed honky-tonk night, every hard-charging show at Billy Bob's Texas, every single that blurred the line between country soul and Southern rock pointed toward something bigger. Now it is officially here: Heartland Rock and Roll, his 16-track album arriving September 25 via…