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Luke Combs’ My Kinda Saturday Night Tour Breaks Attendance Records While He Continues To Dominate Country Radio

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Luke Combs continues his latest success streak, fueled by his new music and his My Kinda Saturday Night Tour.

According to a press release, Combs is adding to his history-making run by becoming the first artist ever to land two different solo songs at No. 1 on the Billboard and Mediabase country radio charts at the same time. The milestone comes as “Sleepless in a Hotel Room” holds the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart for a third consecutive week, while “Days Like These” earns him his 21st straight No. 1 on the Mediabase Country Aircheck chart. This extends his own record for the most consecutive No. 1s to start a career.

Luke Combs; Photo by David Bergman

Additionally, “Days Like These” is also currently No. 2 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, giving Combs the distinction of being the first artist to hold the top two spots at the same time, and the first to achieve the feat twice, following “Fast Car” and “Love You Anyway” reaching Nos. 1 and 2 together in 2023.

Both “Sleepless in a Hotel Room” and “Days Like These” appear on Combs’ latest album, The Way I Am, which arrived earlier this spring. The project debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200, earning 100,700 equivalent album units in its first week.

On the touring side, Combs’ My Kinda Saturday Night Tour continues to break records, with each stop setting new attendance highs. Most recently, he made history at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, drawing 97,367 fans for the largest show of his career to date. He’s also brought massive crowds to Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium, Charlottesville’s Scott Stadium, Ames’ Jack Trice Stadium, and South Bend’s Notre Dame Stadium.

Luke Combs; Photo by David Bergman

The tour is scheduled to hit The University of Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, May 2 and run through August 2 with a run of shows at Wembley Stadium in London.

Combs was recently honored with a TIME100 cover story that included a tribute by Ed Sheeran. He is also nominated for three awards at the 2026 ACM Awards: Entertainer of the Year, Male Artist of the Year and Artist-Songwriter of the Year.

Luke Combs Confirmed Tour Dates

May 2—Knoxville, TN—Neyland Stadium*

May 9—Norman, OK—Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium*

May 15—Green Bay, WI—Lambeau Field*

May 16—Green Bay, WI—Lambeau Field* (SOLD OUT)

May 29—Montreal, Quebec—Parc Jean-Drapeau*

May 30—Montreal, Quebec—Parc Jean-Drapeau* (SOLD OUT)

June 5—Toronto, Ontario—Rogers Stadium*

June 6—Toronto, Ontario—Rogers Stadium* (SOLD OUT)

July 4—Gothenburg, Sweden—Ullevi‡ (LOW TICKETS)

July 7—Paris, France—Accor Arena§ (LOW TICKETS)

July 11—Amsterdam, Netherlands—Johan Cruijff ArenA‡ (SOLD OUT)

July 18—Ireland—Slane Castle‡ (SOLD OUT)

July 19—Ireland—Slane Castle‡ (SOLD OUT)

July 24—Edinburgh, U.K.—Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium+

July 25—Edinburgh, U.K.—Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium+ (SOLD OUT)

July 31—London, U.K.—Wembley Stadium# (SOLD OUT)

August 1—London, U.K.—Wembley Stadium# (SOLD OUT)

August 2—London, U.K.—Wembley Stadium#

*with special guests Dierks Bentley, Ty Myers, Jake Worthington and Thelma & James

‡with special guests The Script, Ty Myers and The Castellows

§with special guests Ty Myers and The Castellows

+with special guests The Teskey Brothers, Ty Myers and The Castellows #with special guests Thomas Rhett, Ty Myers and The Castellows

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Here Are the Lyrics to Carly Pearce’s ‘You Can Have Him’

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Carly Pearce’s quippy ‘You Can Have Him’ is a cheating song, but don’t expect any tears. Continue reading…Country Music News – Taste of Country

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Where To Get The Best Pralines In New Orleans, According To A Local

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Pralines are a sweet New Orleans staple, and these shops are doing the Crescent City proud with their excellent versions of this classic confection.

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Kacey Musgraves to Play 3 Shows With Band Detained By ICE

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Musgraves is making good on a gig offer she extended after The Mariachi Brothers were released from ICE custody last month. Continue reading…Country Music News – Taste of Country

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Kacey Musgraves to Play 3 Shows With Band Detained By ICE

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Customers Say They Won’t Return To This Seafood Chain

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This franchise has long been a budget-friendly option for seafood fans, but based on reviews across multiple locations, customers aren’t happy.

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Alaska’s energy cliff isn’t coming. It’s already here.

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Declining natural gas production from offshore platforms in Cook Inlet is forcing Alaska’s urban utilities to turn toward importing liquefied natural gas. (Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)

Alaska utilities have warned of sharp price hikes when they start importing liquefied natural gas in the coming years to replace dwindling supplies of locally produced gas that’s traditionally been used for home heating and generating electricity.

The first LNG tankers aren’t expected to arrive for a few years.

But increases in the prices paid by consumers are starting to land now.

This month, Hilcorp, urban Alaska’s leading local gas producer, is hiking by 14% the price it charges the electric utility in the Matanuska-Susitna region north of Anchorage — to $9.00 per thousand cubic feet, from $7.89.

More increases scheduled over the next two years will bring the price to $11.75 by 2028 — a 49% jump from the rate in early 2026, before the effective date of a revised contract approved by the Mat-Su utility’s board in recent months.

The utility members’ electric bills will rise by more like 5% each year, since gas prices are only one part of the utility’s operating costs. But by 2028, that still will translate into a monthly hike of more than $20 for typical consumers, according to utility correspondence with regulators.

Utility officials said the amended contract with Hilcorp gets them an extra year of guaranteed gas, when the alternative is a shortfall in supply that could force the utility to generate power with even more expensive diesel fuel.

But the officials also acknowledged that prices for consumers are likely only headed in one direction: up.

“We’re really seeing this as a gradual approach to the unfortunate increase in what Alaskans may see in fuel costs,” Kim Henkel, chief fiscal officer at Matanuska Electric Association, known as MEA, said in an interview earlier this year.

Officials with Hilcorp, urban Alaska’s dominant local gas supplier, said in a prepared statement that its amended contract with MEA reflects a “collaborative approach.”

The deal represents a “deliberate investment approach with our utility partners to bring forward existing production and provide a bridge while longer-term solutions are pursued,” the statement quoted Luke Saugier, Hilcorp’s top Alaska executive, as saying.

MEA isn’t the only utility whose ratepayers are facing imminent price hikes as a result of urban Alaska’s dwindling gas supplies.

In Fairbanks, the local electric utility has no natural gas plants of its own. Historically, as much as 30% of its power has been generated by other utilities’ gas plants farther south and shipped north along a transmission line.

Power lines run toward Mt. Susitna outside Anchorage. (Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)

Now, with no excess gas, those lower-priced power sources have dried up, and Fairbanks’ utility has been forced to boost its dependence on its own expensive diesel generation.

Residential prices there have risen nearly 50% since a low in 2020, to roughly double the national average.

Meanwhile, customers of urban Alaska’s main heating utility, Enstar, could also pay $12 a month more if the company moves forward with a proposed acquisition of a new storage reservoir. Enstar says it could fill the reservoir with both locally produced gas in the short-term, as well as imported LNG when cargoes start arriving.

With its own supplies tightening, Enstar says, the $240 million storage project would also add to its capacity to pipe gas out to home and commercial heating customers — as flows become increasingly difficult to sustain with less fuel produced by local companies at any one time.

Additional price increases are almost certain in the coming years when Enstar, and Anchorage and the Mat-Su’s electric utilities, begin replacing their locally supplied fuel with imported liquefied natural gas — expected to cost at least 50% more than what Enstar currently pays Hilcorp for local gas.

“I hate to be the one crying wolf,” John Sims, Enstar’s president, said in an interview. But such steep increases in the cost of energy, he added, are “the start of an economy that just doesn’t work any more.”

One problem, Sims said, is that local gas producers like Hilcorp have seen the prices that the utilities expect to pay for imported LNG, which have been revealed publicly in utility consultants’ reports. “Now I’ve got no leverage,” said Sims, whose company is investor-owned. “They know what the alternative cost is going to be.”

For now, it will be hard for the urban utilities to stem further price increases because of their deep dependence on fossil fuels — and decades of foregone decisions that could have been made to diversify and boost efficiencies, according to Phil Wight, an energy historian and utility expert at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Urban Alaska’s four major electric utilities could have done more to cooperate on power plant construction and ongoing generation, so that only the most efficient plants were used, Wight said.

They also, added Wight, could have started construction on large-scale renewable projects when substantial federal tax credits were available. But no major projects are set to be built in the state before the credits phase out — and urban Alaska still runs on some 80% fossil power.

“We have these systemic structures that make it hard for us to really get out of this paradigm,” Wight said, adding: “We’re going to be in this pit for a while.”

Nathaniel Herz welcomes tips at natherz@gmail.com or (907) 793-0312. This article was originally published in Northern Journal, a newsletter from Herz. Subscribe at this link.

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Jake Owen Gets Real About the Dark Side of ‘Making It’ in Nashville

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Jake Owen is opening up like never before in the latest episode of God’s Country Podcast, reflecting on his Florida roots, moving to Nashville with no real plan, his longtime admiration for country supergroup Alabama, and the realities of fame—including the toll it’s taken on his family life.

Sitting down with Dan and Reid Isbell, known as The Brothers Hunt, Owen’s conversation turned deeply personal as he looked back on arriving in Music City as a young, naïve dreamer and reflected on where he is today.

“I came here with nothing and yesterday I was like, you know, looking out over my farm in my pool. By myself. Because weird… ’cause I came here with nothing and I’ve gained a whole lot when it, you know, when it comes to the, the business side of it, I feel like I’ve, I’ve done a lot of incredible things, but, I also came here with no children, no relationships 20, 22 years ago,” he shared. “And now I’m blessed to have two children. I’m blessed to have had two relationships that were fruitful and amazing.”

Jake Owen; Photo via YouTube

Owen, 44, went on to acknowledge the unexpected weight that came with his success in Nashville and even admitted he may not have moved there to chase his dreams if he had known how things would turn out.

“But I’ll say that like everything that I thought I moved here for… that I was looking for, I definitely fulfilled, but I also have been given a lot of things that I never, never signed up for or didn’t know that would come along with it. And I think if people would’ve told me that I may have just stayed in Vero,” he admitted.

The “Journey of Your Life” singer quickly added, “I’m glad they didn’t,” clarifying that he’s grateful he didn’t know the path his life would take him down, as he might have missed out on many of the opportunities his career ultimately brought him.

“I think people, people put emphasis on making it in Nashville, put emphasis on like, are you sure you wanna do that?Man, you know, there’s a lot of people up there, blah, blah. That’s not what people should put the emphasis on when people move to Nashville,” he stated, later adding that they should put emphasis on “What happens when you make it.”

He continued, “Let’s talk about when you make it. What are you gonna do then? Life goes on, friends get lost. You know, relationships get broken. All kinds of things that no one talks about other than if you make it and then they think that when you make it, it’s all, glitz and glamor. And so long answer to your short question, 22 years here has taught me a lot about people, myself, the business, just, you know, life. It’s been amazing, man.”

Owen got especially candid about hitting a breaking point around Christmas 2025 reflecting on the end of his second relationship, taking responsibility for his role while also admitting just how much it hurt. He spoke about the contrast between the success people see on the outside and the personal struggles he’s dealt with behind the scenes, sharing that it all became too much in that moment and he ultimately broke down.

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Following this extremely vulnerable moment, Owen returned to social media to clarify his mindset. Since then, Owen received overwhelming support from fans, fellow artists, and more and told The Brothers Hunt

“When I looked back at that video that I posted, I was like, ‘I don’t even know that dude. I don’t know who that guy is, but that guy’s, that guy’s hurt. That guy’s lost and it made me realize in that moment, like, you know, that I wasn’t who I think I thought I was trying to become, but it set me on a different path of understanding that like, we’re all like, broken in ways and you gotta find out how to, how to, you know, fix yourself.”

Jake Owen’s latest album, Dreams to Dream, is out now.

For more with Jake Owen on the God’s Country podcast, click the video above.

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Pittsburgh Steelers Place Unrestricted Free-Agent Tender on QB Aaron Rodgers

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have left the door wide open for Aaron Rodgers to return. Still, the club gave itself a little bit of protection in case he does not. Pittsburgh placed the unrestricted free-agent tender on the four-time NFL MVP on Monday, meaning the Steelers would be entitled to a compensatory draft pick if Rodgers doesn’t sign with them and instead lands elsewhere during the 2026 season. General manager Omar Khan and first-year head coach Mike McCarthy remain very optimistic that the 42-year-old will be back after leading them to an AFC North title last winter. The line of communication between both sides has been wide open since the end of the season, and Khan said after the 2026 NFL Draft that the selection of former Penn State Nittany Lions star Drew Allar in the third round does not affect Pittsburgh’s interest in having Rodgers back. The tender does not preclude Rodgers from signing with another team or even give the Steelers the ability to match an offer to him if one is made before July 22. What it does do is give them some coverage if he signs elsewhere before training camp opens in late July. After camp begins, the Steelers would have exclusive negotiating rights with Rodgers. The tender also slots in Rodgers’ salary. Under the rules, Rodgers would be entitled to a 10% raise over his 2025 salary if he comes back for a 22nd season. Rodgers said in January that he would make a decision “down the line.” The Steelers had expressed hope that Rodgers would be able to provide clarity before the NFL draft, but that did not happen. Pittsburgh begins organized team activities — which are voluntary — on May 18. Mandatory minicamp is set for June 2-4. Rodgers skipped OTAs entirely last year, signing a one-year deal with the Steelers not long after minicamp wrapped up. Reporting by The Associated Press.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

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This Graphic Shows How Far Ella Langley Has Come in Just 7 Months

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One year ago, no one was betting on Ella Langley, and we can prove it. Continue reading…Country Music News – Taste of Country

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