MTV.com News — Taylor Swift takes Album of the Year; Underwood is Entertainer of the Year.By Gil Kaufman Carrie Underwood at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday Photo: Jon Kopaloff/ FilmMagic In what could signal a generational shift in the cou... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Def Leppard [ tickets ] has unveiled a lengthy itinerary of North American dates that has the British rock icons sharing the stage with Poison [ tickets ] and Cheap Trick [ tickets ]. The 40-city trek gets underway June 23 in Camden, ... more info

ACountry — 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards performers will include Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Heidi Newfield, and Rascal Flatts.  The 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be held Sunday, April 5, 2009... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Following its first European tour, Sugarland [ tickets ] will dig into a lengthy spring and summer tour of North America.... continued more info

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ACountry — Sugarland’s Love On The Inside Tour continues in 2009, including stadium shows on Kenny Chesney’s Sun City Carnival Tour and arena shows with Keith Urban.  Touring in support of their platinum smash album, Love On The Inside, Sugarland’s Je... more info

ACountry — Kenny Chesney’s Sun City Carnival Tour will hit over 50 stops across the country.  The tour features Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum on all shows and will include Sugarland and Mongtomery Gentry on the stadium shows in Dallas, Texas, Columb... more info

Sugarland isn’t the only country group amidst a lawsuit at the moment. Everyone’s favorite trio, Rascal Flatts, was named in a suit by a songwriter from New York for copyright infringement. Joe Don Rooney’s lawyers defended the song, saying: â€... more info

ACountry — 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards nominations were announced at a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame(R) and Museum in Nashville by Julianne Hough, Kellie Pickler, LeAnn Rimes and Jessica Simpson.  Brad Paisley leads with six n... more info

Idolator — As of right now, 20 of the 25 entries on Google's Hot Trends list—which tracks the "fastest-rising search queries in the U.S."—are about music. And all of them seem to be Grammy-related: "blink 182 back together," "m.i.a. pregnant," "static majo... more info