Every year, Bruce Springsteen throws his Stand Up For Heroes benefit, a big show that raises money from injured veterans, in New York. And every year, he gets up on that stage and tells dirty jokes. The show is part of the New York Comedy Festival, and it always features comedians performing alongside musicians. (This…

One of the dumbest controversies in recent months came after the country star Eric Church, in a Rolling Stone cover profile, made some extremely mild criticisms of the NRA and said that he might've voted for Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump. (Church had played at the Las Vegas country festival where scores of people were…

Eric Church's new single "Desperate Man," the title track from his upcoming album, is basically a "Sympathy For The Devil" rewrite. That's disappointing from a creative perspective, but it does make "Desperate Man" an ideal song for soundtracking a '70s-style crime movie. So for the song's official music video, that's exactly what Church has giv...

Eric Church, the Nashville country star who may or may not be our greatest working rock star, is coming back. Back in 2015, he surprise-released the album Mr. Misunderstood directly to his Church Choir fan club, and yesterday, he announced a follow-up called Desperate Man and shared its title track to that same fan club.

Eric Church's relationship with his fans is undeniable, unconditional and often unconventional. And he delivers on that mission