NORFOLK — It was around 8:30 p.m. on a recent Friday at The Banque when things began pulsing. The house lights had dimmed and hip-hop baselines were infusing The Banque’s country and western playlist.

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter country album is sending fashionistas and music festivalgoers into a Western apparel frenzy.For starters, the album, released on March 29, features the song “Levii’s Jeans” ...

Desert 5 Spot, a country and western dance bar that debuted in Los Angeles in 2021 and expanded to New York City last year, has opened its newest venue at a two-story warehouse in D.C.’s Union Market ...

Four cowboys star in season three of Fox's "Farmer Wants a Wife," hoping to find love with the help of host Kimberly Williams-Paisley. The show capitalizes on the resurgent popularity of country music ...

At Stud Country, a weekly queer country and western line dancing class, there are no drinks allowed on the dance floor. To the couples and friends gathered for a night out under the glitter of a giant ...

Country music has had its ups and downs. Country and western music found its start in the 1920s in the American South, and it has evolved countless times throughout the last 100 years. Toward the tail ...

Ian Munsick was backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, and he seemed satisfied with what he saw in the dressing-room mirror: a shirt embroidered with roses, jeans secured by a belt buckle the size of a ...

SAFE. IT IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH. FOR DECADES, THEY HAVE LEFT THEIR MARK IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT AND NATIONWIDE. THIS INCLUDES LOUISE MASSEY, MAYBE ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALE COUNTRY AND WESTERN ...

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...

When Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” arrives next week, it’ll join a lineage of albums by stars including Ray Charles, the Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner and more. By Hank Shteamer When Beyoncé confirmed that ...