Kid Rock, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley and Kenny Chesney signed on to headlines next year’s Stagecoach festival in California. Billboard has a list of other initial performers that includes Jerry Jeff Walker, Miranda Lambert and Dale Watson. In her ... more info

Yahoo! Music — AP - At a recent concert, Brad Paisley closed his show with a song that most of his fans had never heard and probably never will on country radio. more info

Yahoo! Music — AP - At a recent concert, Brad Paisley closed his show with a song that most of his fans had never heard and probably never will on country radio. more info

Album releases for the week of 11/4/2008 include: Beth Stevens - Strong Enough Amazon Brad Paisley - Play Amazon | iTunes The Churchmen - I’ll Be Long Gone Amazon Mark Wills - Familiar Stranger Amazon | iTunes Randy Owen - One on One Amazon | iTun... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Brad Paisley might be one of contemporary country's master wordsmiths, but on his fifth album, he hardly says a word. With "Play," more info

Paste Magazine — Play It Louder By Shane Harrison Play is a big gamble—a largely instrumental album from one of country’s most reliable hit makers. You can just hear the Nashville suits gnashing their teeth, asking, “Where are the hits?” They might be here... more info

Mindy McCready is getting out of jail today after serving just half of her 60-day sentence. Speaking of sentences, TMZ says she read enough of them to finish two books while in the slammer–no word on which books, though. Trace Adkins, George Jones ... more info

Dlisted — Joaquin Phoenix (34) Devon Murray (20) Justin Guarini (30) Dayanara Torres (34) Trista Rehn (36) Brad Paisley (36) Ben Harper (40) Julia Roberts (41) Andy Richter (42) Jamie Gertz (43) Lauren Holly (45) Daphne Zuniga (46) Bill Gates (53) Annie Potts ... more info

ContactMusic — Country rocker BRAD PAISLEY discovered his wife was pregnant with the couple's second child when their 20-month-old son handed him a positive pregnancy test. Paisley's ... more info

Idolator — Today's Wall Street Journal story on how the entertainment industry is treating Election Day as "another retail holiday, when adults are sprung from work and kids are out of school—and presumably in stores" is full of cringeworthy moments—for sta... more info