Reviews

This year's warm winter offered a break to Billings residents and local businesses. Without having to endure the harsh cold and heavy snow, a lot of businesses are getting a jump start on their work. For the folks at the Lake Hills Golf Course, the off season ended when the year began.

Along with about 8,000 other fans, I enjoyed the Blake Shelton concert at Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark last Friday night (March 23).  My evening started with setting up outside of Metra with the station van, playing the tunes loud and proud 1 hour before showtime.  As I was setting up a young lady came out, who I recognized as Dia Frampton!

Every summer Dierks Bentley seems to have a song perfectly suited for speeding down a back country highway with the windows down and the stereo up. His uptempo songs have a Tasmanian Devil feel to them. Like ‘Free and Easy’ and ‘Lot of Leavin’ Left to Do’ before that, ’5-1-5-0′ is three minutes of reckless energy.

The ‘Act of Valor’ soundtrack is a collection of 10 moody songs that ultimately get one excited about the movie, which opens up nationwide on Friday (Feb. 24). Although one can only assume it’s going to be the saddest movie ever.

The following concert review was written by Tamara Rosholt. For someone who has been in the music industry for 35 years, sold over 55 million albums and won numerous awards, Reba McEntire shows no signs of slowing down.  That was proven when she took the stage last night at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse last night in Bozeman to a packed house.

MontanaFair is finally here, and with the fair comes fair food! The fair just wouldn’t be the fair without all of that deep-fried goodness. Sure, there will be lots of entertainment there, like Eddie Money, 38 Special, 3 Days Grace, Dierks Bentley and many other acts wandering the fairground. There will be rides, games, 4-H events and rodeos. There will even be the opportunity to interact with

Tourists watching the Old West show in Hill City, South Dakota last Friday got a real taste of the mayhem associated with that time period when live ammo began spraying into the crowd. Investigators  aren’t sure if real bullets somehow got into the actor’s guns, or if it was  shrapnel from blanks that wounded three spectators seriously enough to be taken to the hospital in  ambulances.

OK, at least one of my favorite words.  While scouring around for free stuff, I came upon places to get free money, free telephone calls (yes, you and I both remember when long distance cost an arm and a leg), free things for your birthday, free storage space for your computer, and free apps...

Brad Paisley made us wait for it...and wait for it...and wait for it. Now the new, twice delayed CD, This Is Country Music is available for you to grab. Here's the video from the single on the CD, "Old Alabama" which just went public Saturday...

The Chevrolet El Camino, with its svelte sports car-meets-muscle-truck visage, is easily one of America's favorite classic vehicles, and since it was discontinued in the '80s, fans have been trying to find ways to bring it back.

Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend. One has the makings of a mega-blockbuster in 'Thor,' the latest in a long line of superhero movies from Marvel. Interestingly enough, this one is from critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated director Kenneth Branagh, the man behind such Shakespeare adaptations as 'Henry V.' The other big releases this weekend are a nice alternative to the loud

Each afternoon at 5:20,  I play a brand new never before heard on Cat Country song for you to hear.  Since we are discovering new music together, it's the Discovery Zone.  Here are a few of the songs that have appeared on the Zone in the past week...