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Chicago’s annual Windy City Smokeout returns for its eighth installment in July, with Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, and Jon Pardi headlining the three-day country music and barbecue festival.

Set for July 10th through 12th, the event assembles 20 pitmasters from around the country — including low-and-slow hotbeds like Kansas City, Missouri, and Driftwood, Texas — and an array of country artists. Along with the headliners, the lineup includes Morgan Evans, Ryan Hurd, Riley Green, Cody Canada, Cody Johnson, Randy Rogers Band, and Hailey Whitters. Rising talent Lainey Wilson, Tyler Booth, Ross Ellis,...

Miranda Lambert appeared on The Late Show to perform her recent song “Tequila Does,” which comes off her album Wildcard.

Joined by her band, Lambert brought a rollicking vibe to the track, which poses the question: romance or tequila. “The boys around here drink domestic beer/They’re all hat and no cattle/But I won’t sleep alone, because my old pal Patron is taking me home tonight,” Lambert intones on the twanging number, adding, “They don’t love me like tequila does.”

Lambert released Wildcard, a follow-up to...

For its eighth annual iteration, the Watershed Music and Camping Festival will feature a diverse cross-section of mainstream country performers. Headliners for the event, set for August 2nd to 4th at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre, include Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band and Miranda Lambert.

Based in scenic George, Washington, overlooking the Columbia River Gorge, Watershed is routinely one of the most-anticipated events of country festival season. Lambert’s set this year will include an appearance by the Pistol Annies, her trio with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, and other performers...

It's officially a month into 2011 now, so all of us can take a step back and see where we're standing on all those wonderful New Year's resolutions that seemed so noble and important four weeks ago. Well, not me. I didn't make any New Year's resolutions because when you manage to sprain an ankle and break a finger on New Year's Eve, I think that counts as a massive goddamn hint about what the universe has to say about your near future. In my case, what it was mostly saying was that I'd spend the first several weeks of 2011 alternately frustrated and in pain, with a high chance of having a finger that will be stuck at an angle best described as "jaunty." You should all be so lucky. So let's hear how the resolutions are or aren't coming along and in the meantime here's your Monday night TV:

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