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  • Twitter Erupts as Carrie Underwood Joins NBC’s The Sound of Music

    Twitter Erupts as Carrie Underwood Joins NBC’s The Sound of Music

    When news broke of country star Carrie Underwood’s casting as Maria von Trapp in NBC’s live broadcast of “The Sound of Music,” the Twitterverse responded.

  • Bringing Country Music to Lincoln Center

    Remember those Pace Picante Sauce television commercials that ran throughout the 1980s. “This stuff is made in New York City,” a comical cowboy would say with horror after picking up a jar of salsa. A chorus of outraged cowboys would always follow that quip, screaming “New York City!” Before moving to New York City, I…

  • MTV Takes on West Side Story

    Broadway’s latest revival of the classic musical West Side Story might be a clunker, but that isn’t stopping MTV from using it for inspiration. MTV has fallen off the pop culture relevance scale over the last decade or so, so it came as a shock to find video promos for the network’s upcoming Video Music…