Some artists find country music through the radio. Some inherit it from family. Zoee Music found it in a shipping container full of her parents' vinyl records on the wild coast of Tasmania, Australia, and from that single moment of discovery, her path to Nashville became inevitable. We have been watching Zoee's story unfold with…

We were deep in our weekly scan of country music’s next great voices when Carter Faith stopped us in our tracks. She is one of those artists you discover through a single track recommendation and then spend the next two hours in a spiral through her entire catalog, wondering how you had not been paying…

September 25, 2026. Circle that date. That is when Corey Kent releases "Heartland Rock and Roll," his album on Sony Music Nashville, and everything he has been building since "Wild As Her" went viral on TikTok will land in one place. We have been tracking Kent's career closely for the past few years, and we…

Twenty-one years old, from a South Carolina town of fewer than 800 people, and already sharing stadium stages with Morgan Wallen. We have been researching the next wave of country artists for the Sunset Stage Series, and when we landed on Blake Whiten, we kept returning to one question: how does an artist from Six…

Twenty-five years old. A biology degree. Almost a dentist. That was the path Reece Gustafson was on before the pull of a guitar and the call of country music changed everything. We found his story while building out the Sunset Stage Series roster, and we are genuinely embarrassed it took us this long to feature…

There is a specific moment when a country artist stops being someone you follow and starts being someone you cannot stop talking about. For Julia Cole, that moment arrived quietly this month and then hit us all at once. We dug into her new duet "Loving Someone Like That" with Breland, a collaboration that landed…

For this installment of the Sunset Stage Series, we went deep on Kolby Cooper, and what we found told us everything we needed to know about why East Texas keeps producing country artists with something real to say. Cooper released his sophomore album Love You, Goodnight in April 2025, and it is the kind of…