Black Label Society are officially roaring back into action. The band have announced their new studio album, Engines of Demolition, set for release on March 27, 2026, marking their first full-length release since 2021. The album is available for pre-order now, and it arrives alongside the thunderous new single and video, “Name In Blood,” which is streaming everywhere.
Kicking off 2026 in typically uncompromising fashion, Engines of Demolition captures what frontman Zakk Wylde describes as an emotional and creative journey shaped by years of constant motion. Wylde began writing the album in 2022 while on the road with the Pantera Celebration World Tour, continuing work through 2025.
“Engines of Demolition is a sincere ride through the peaks and valleys of the last four years from start to finish,” Wylde says. “Some of the highest highs and lowest lows and everything in between.”
Among the album’s most talked-about moments is ‘Ozzy’s Song,’ which Wylde calls the most personally profound and heartfelt ballad he’s written to date. The track serves as a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, the artist who gave Wylde his first major break and helped shape his legendary career. Pre-orders for Engines of Demolition are available here.
Black Label Society is also about to embark on a massive North American featuring Zakk Sabbath and Dark Chapel, both bands featuring members of Black Label Society. So these dudes better start warming up.
The tour kicks off on February 27 at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, TX and wraps up on May 14 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Get your tickets here.
2/27 San Antonio, TX Boeing Center at Tech Port 2/28 Dallas, TX The Bomb Factory 3/1 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom 3/3 Chesterfield, MO The Factory at the District 3/4 North Kansas City, MO VooDoo at Harrah’s Kansas City 3/6 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom 3/7 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center 3/9 Albuquerque, NM Revel Entertainment Center 3/10 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre 3/12 Funner, CA Harrah’s Resort Southern California 3/13 Inglewood, CA YouTube Theater 3/14 San Francisco, CA The Warfield 3/16 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre 3/17 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theater 3/19 Calgary, AB Grey Eagle Event Centre 3/21 Edmonton, AB Midway Music Hall 3/23 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre 3/25 Prior Lake, MN Mystic Lake Casino 3/27 Madison, WI The Sylvee 3/28 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit 3/29 Toronto, ON Queen Elizabeth Theatre 3/31 Montreal, QC MTELUS 4/2 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena 4/3 Montclair, NJ The Wellmont Theater 4/4 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway 4/6 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore Philadelphia 4/7 Norfolk, VA The NorVa 4/9 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle 4/10 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotte 5/10 North Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues 5/11 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore Silver Spring 5/12 Salem, VA Salem Civic Center 5/14 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
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Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.
AS MIAMI PUNCTUATED a gritty 15-play, 75-yard touchdown drive to beat Ole Miss in the closing seconds of the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Hal Mumme sat on his couch in Shreveport, Louisiana, watching and celebrating like a proud father.
The Hurricanes have taken the hard way back to the mountaintop, beating Texas A&M in College Station, Ohio State — the defending national champs — in the Cotton Bowl and an Ole Miss team that was playing inspired football. Watching Carson Beck scramble into the end zone to beat Ole Miss and return The U to a national championship game for the first time in 23 years, all Mumme could think about was when he first saw Shannon Dawson’s moxie against the Arkansas-Monticello Boll Weevils.
Mumme, the 73-year-old inventor of the Air Raid offense, says Miami’s rough road has mirrored the path Dawson has taken to help get them there.
Dawson first proved himself to Mumme in 2003 at Southeastern Louisiana, in Dawson’s first game as a part-timer making about $500 a month. His job was to chart plays, to let Mumme know how many times he had made a specific call.
Southeastern Louisiana had just resurrected football and was playing its first game in 18 years. They’d had a parade and a pep rally that week, and fans were amped for the return of football to Hammond, Louisiana. An overflow crowd of 9,708 packed Strawberry Stadium (capacity: 7,400).
Mumme desperately wanted to win to kick off this new era. Late in the fourth quarter, the offense had struggled, with the defense scoring the only touchdown, and the team trailed 17-16. After recovering a fumble at the Weevils’ 22 with about six minutes left, Dawson stuck his head in the huddle and suggested a play.
“If we just throw Fox,” he said, code for faking a screen and throwing deep, “we can score if we throw it to the right.”
Mumme couldn’t believe the audacity of the kid. The head coach started to rip the restricted earnings coach and remind him to know his place, then caught himself and realized he had been paying attention. And that he was right.
“That’s a good idea,” Mumme said. “We called it, hit our little slot receiver, Choni Francis, for a touchdown and won the game, thanks to the courage of Shannon Dawson.”
JUST SIX YEARS before, Dawson was an option quarterback from Clinton, Louisiana, who signed to play at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, a Division III non-scholarship school. He was a biology major, set on a medical career after breaking his ankle in high school.
“I was going to be an orthopedic surgeon,” Dawson said. “My fallback plan was to become a physical therapist.”
At his first practice, he took a shotgun snap for the first time under Choctaws offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen, then a young coach who had played for Mumme at Iowa Wesleyan and served as an assistant for him at Valdosta State. He spent his freshman year in the coaching booth communicating defensive formations down to Holgorsen on the sideline. The two developed a close relationship, and suddenly, Dawson’s plans changed.
“Dana made football fun,” Dawson said. He wanted to do this. So he called his parents and told them he was determined to become a college football coach.
“You’re going to starve to death,” his grandfather told him. “I’d be an accountant.”
But the siren song of the Air Raid lured him in, as it did for other outsiders in that era who had no pedigree and never dreamed of a future in major college football, such as Mike Leach, the Pepperdine lawyer, or Sonny Dykes, the Texas Tech baseball player or Lincoln Riley, the walk-on quarterback from Muleshoe, Texas, who became a volunteer coach for Leach and ascended to Oklahoma and USC. Or Holgorsen, the iconoclastic wild-haired, Red Bull-swilling coach who just happened to live in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, when Mumme showed up in town to try out his new wide-open offense at Iowa Wesleyan and is now the offensive coordinator at Nebraska.
So two years later, when Holgorsen landed a job coaching quarterbacks and wide receivers at Wingate in North Carolina, Dawson transferred with him. After Holgorsen left to join Mike Leach’s first Texas Tech staff in 2000, Dawson moved to receiver in 2001 and was the Bulldogs’ leading pass catcher, grabbing 43 passes for 584 yards and 7 touchdowns. He impressed head coach Joe Reich enough that Reich named him the receivers coach the very next year.
But in 2002, Southeastern Louisiana hired Mumme, who had resigned amid an NCAA investigation for recruiting violations at Kentucky in 2000. The offices were mostly barren, staffers found surplus furniture on campus and made do. And there was a skeleton staff, mostly just Mumme’s assistant Amber. He needed to build a new staff and one of his first calls came from Holgorsen, imploring him to hire Dawson. Mumme said he wrote down the name and number on a Post-it note and put it on his desk. Almost immediately, it got lost in all the papers on his desk.
Not long after, a Southeastern booster and former player showed up and suggested that his son might be a good fit for the new staff. This was the last thing Mumme needed, a booster who played there 30 years before, trying to shake him down to hire his kid. He told him to send his son over just to humor him and get him out of his office. In walked Dawson.
When he arrived, Mumme had forgotten about Holgorsen’s recommendation. He tried to make the job sound as unappealing as possible.
“He sits in front of me for like an hour, and I totally ripped his ass,” Mumme said. “I told him, ‘You’re going to have the s—tiest job in this deal. I’m not going to pay you anything for six months. You’re gonna have to be my driver. If I want something videoed, you gotta be the video guy. If we need the laundry done, you gotta be the laundry guy.’ I thought of every job in football that sucks.”
“When can I start?” Dawson replied.
Mumme said he was hard on Dawson even after he started. Then a month later, Amber cleaned off his desk and found the note. She brought it to Mumme asking if he needed it.
“Hell, that’s the guy I just hired,” he said, laughing. “So I started being nicer to him.”
The next year, in their first game, Dawson repaid his leap of faith with the call in the Arkansas-Monticello game.
“From that day on, I started listening to Shannon Dawson,” Mumme said.
Dawson made a believer of Mumme. But he was no overnight success story.
In 2005, Mumme, a New Mexico native, was hired by New Mexico State, considered one of the toughest jobs in college football. Mumme couldn’t resist the challenge and brought Dawson along.
The Aggies finished 0-12 in their first season and Mason Miller, a longtime offensive line coach for Leach and Mumme who was Dawson’s roommate, recalled how bleak that season felt and how impossible the job seemed in Las Cruces.
“It’s not hell,” he said. “But you can see it from there.”
But he got a merciful break from Mumme when Mike DuBose, the Alabama coach whom Mumme had beaten at Kentucky in 1997 got the head coach job at Millsaps in Jackson, Mississippi in 2006. He called Mumme, told him he wanted to run his offense and asked for recommendations. Mumme said he needed to hire Dawson, who had never been a playcaller before, to run his offense.
His star started to shine. The Majors improved from 2-7 to 7-4 and made the Division III playoffs for the first time since 1975. He moved up to FCS at Stephen F. Austin in East Texas in 2008 and became the offensive coordinator for the Lumberjacks, who were coming off an 0-11 season. SFA also became a playoff team and its quarterback, Jeremy Moses was a two-time All-American and won the Walter Payton award as the FCS National Player of the Year. He still holds the FCS record with 1,184 pass completions.
So when Holgorsen was hired at West Virginia in 2011, he hired Dawson as his receivers coach. Under him, Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey were each named All-Americans and combined to tie or break 26 school records.
“Shannon was his first call,” said Jake Spavital, the Baylor offensive coordinator who was a graduate assistant on that staff. “He absolutely crushed it.”
MARIO CRISTOBAL, A former offensive lineman at Miami under Jimmy Johnson, is an exceptional recruiter who can land the type of talent most Air Raid coaches have never had, other than perhaps Riley.
So when Cristobal and Miami called Dawson after a 12-2 season under Holgorsen at Houston, Dawson went out on his own again. The last time he had left Holgorsen, he became Mark Stoops’ offensive coordinator at Kentucky. The offense struggled, the Wildcats went 5-7, and Dawson was dismissed after one season. This would be a similar setup: An old-school coach wanting to run a wide-open offense, but with a hard-nosed edge.
Miller and Spavital said they’ve appreciated Dawson’s evolution, noting the offense might look different than what fans consider Air Raid offenses, but they still see the hallmarks in the screen game and the route trees.
Last year, Dawson helped Cam Ward set four school records, breaking several of Bernie Kosar’s marks from when The U was the standard for passing offenses. This year, he has got a big, bruising offensive line and power backs, built in Cristobal’s image, and so Dawson has leaned in.
He admits the offense’s performance hasn’t always been a work of art, such as in the 10-3 win over Texas A&M. But he has said he’s willing to settle in and do whatever is necessary to win, such as when Carson Beck came to him and suggested they just start leaning on the inside run in the second half of that game. Dawson has had a career filling stat sheets with gaudy numbers. Now he’s just fine with doing whatever it takes to win.
“I’ve been a coordinator now for 17, 18 years,” Dawson said. “The one thing that I’ve learned is to swallow my ego.”
In the fourth quarter against the Aggies, Mark Fletcher ripped off a 56-yard run and finished with 17 carries for 172 yards. The Hurricanes survived and advanced.
“Those are the games that we’ve never won,” Dawson said. “That’s the beauty of who we are: We can fall back on hammering you because we’re so physical.”
Spavital jokes that he saw Dawson hand the ball off on fourth-and-2 against Ole Miss, which he’s not sure he has ever done before. Dawson, though, says it still all derives from Mumme’s philosophy. He and Leach were both infatuated with Emory Bellard’s wishbone and Paul Johnson’s flexbone triple option. The Air Raid isn’t about simply throwing the ball, it’s about exploiting matchups and getting the ball into playmakers’ hands. This year, that happens to be a stable of backs behind one of the best offensive lines in football.
All four CFP semifinal coaches were former Nick Saban assistants, part of one of the greatest coaching lineages in college football history, with the blessings of a dynasty bestowed upon them. But Miller said Dawson is a great product of another type of coaching tree, where Mumme’s acolytes had to propagate from meager roots. Amid Indiana’s historic season, the Hurricanes are still underdogs by more than a touchdown, even playing in their home stadium in Miami Gardens. It’s a suitable scenario for “the scrappy insurgency of the Air Raid,” as Miller called it.
Dykes reached the national championship game in the 2022 season with a band of overachievers, beating Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl, but ran into a buzzsaw in Georgia. Mumme said Miami was always one of the places he and Leach long dreamed of seeing their offense with the type of athletes they could attract. Leach wanted the Hurricanes job but could never land it. Dawson got there, with a team loaded with five-star recruits and elite Florida talent such as Malachi Toney.
“This is what we always wanted,” Mumme said. “None of us ever got the opportunity.”
But now, there’s another generation with a new chance. Mumme saw this taking shape at Strawberry Field against the Boll Weevils. And on Monday, against No. 1 Indiana, Dawson will take the field with the same offense, taught with the same drills he learned back on those Division III fields in Mississippi and Louisiana. And Mumme thinks we would be wise not to underestimate him.
“Shannon Dawson’s the salt of the earth,” Mumme said. “I would bet on him in anything.”
A top Democrat slammed the Trump administration late Wednesday for creating “uncertainty and confusion” in cutting thousands of substance abuse and mental health grants and then abruptly reversing course.House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Rosa DeLauro described Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision-making as dangerous and haphazard after grant recipients began laying off employees based on the original plans.“He must be cautious when making decisions that will impact Americans’ health,” DeLauro, D-Conn., said in a statement. “I hope this reversal serves as a lesson learned.”The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on Tuesday night had canceled some 2,000 grants representing nearly $2 billion in funding, according to an administration official with knowledge of the cuts who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.But by Wednesday evening, those cuts were being reversed, according to reports in The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post and others.Grant recipients who had their funding canceled on Tuesday told The Associated Press they hadn’t yet received word of the reinstatements. Some had already made difficult decisions in response to the cuts, including laying off employees and canceling scheduled trainings.The reason for the reversal wasn’t immediately clear, and spokespeople for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services didn’t respond to requests for comment Wednesday night.Cuts had affected a wide range of programsThe grant cancellations had pulled back funding for a wide swath of discretionary grants and represented about a quarter of SAMHSA’s overall budget. They built on other, wide-ranging cuts that have been made at HHS, including the elimination of thousands of jobs and the freezing or canceling of billions of dollars for scientific research.The cuts had thrown into jeopardy programs that give direct mental health services, opioid treatment, drug prevention resources, peer support, and more to communities affected by addiction, mental illness and homelessness.“Without that funding, people are going to lose access to lifesaving services,” Yngvild Olsen, former director of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and a national adviser at Manatt Health, said earlier Wednesday.SAMHSA, a sub-agency of HHS, notified grant recipients that their funding would be canceled effective immediately in emailed letters on Tuesday evening, according to several copies received by organizations and reviewed by The Associated Press.The letters, signed by SAMHSA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Christopher Carroll, justified the terminations using a regulation that says the agency may terminate any federal award that “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.”Grant recipients who were notified of the cancellations said they were confused by that explanation and didn’t get any further detail about why the agency felt their work didn’t match up with SAMHSA’s priorities.“The goal of our grants is entirely in line with the priorities listed in that letter,” said Jamie Ross, CEO of the Las Vegas-based PACT Coalition, a community organization focused on substance use issues that lost funding from three grants totaling $560,000.Grant recipients were already taking action in response to the cutsOrganizations reeling from the news on Wednesday told the AP they had already been forced to cut staff and cancel trainings. In the long term, many had been considering whether they could keep programs alive by shuffling them to different funding sources or whether they’d need to stop the services altogether.Robert Franks, CEO of the Boston-based mental health provider the Baker Center for Children and Families, which was told Tuesday it was losing two federal grants totaling $1 million, said Wednesday afternoon that the loss of funding would force his organization to lay off staff and put care in jeopardy for some 600 families receiving it.One of his organization’s canceled grants had been awarded through the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, a more than 20-year-old program supporting specialized care for children who have been through traumatic events ranging from sexual abuse to school violence.Franks said his organization’s work directly advances SAMHSA’s goals to address mental illness. He said trauma care provided to children through his organization helps people from all walks of life and reduces burdens on other parts of society. He could not be reached late Wednesday to respond to the news of the grant reinstatements.Both Ross and Ryan Hampton, founder of the advocacy nonprofit Mobilize Recovery, told the AP they hadn’t yet been notified of any reversal to the grant cuts they’d been notified of Tuesday night.The National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors, a group that represents local organizations that deliver safety net services, sent a letter to its members on Wednesday noting that multiple of its partners estimated the slashed grants totaled around 2,000 and likely amounted to some $2 billion. The group said the funding pullbacks appeared to focus on grants classified as Programs of Regional and National Significance.The group said it believed certain block grants, 988 suicide and crisis lifeline funding and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics were spared from the cuts.
NEW YORK —
A top Democrat slammed the Trump administration late Wednesday for creating “uncertainty and confusion” in cutting thousands of substance abuse and mental health grants and then abruptly reversing course.
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Rosa DeLauro described Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision-making as dangerous and haphazard after grant recipients began laying off employees based on the original plans.
“He must be cautious when making decisions that will impact Americans’ health,” DeLauro, D-Conn., said in a statement. “I hope this reversal serves as a lesson learned.”
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on Tuesday night had canceled some 2,000 grants representing nearly $2 billion in funding, according to an administration official with knowledge of the cuts who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.
But by Wednesday evening, those cuts were being reversed, according to reports in The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post and others.
Grant recipients who had their funding canceled on Tuesday told The Associated Press they hadn’t yet received word of the reinstatements. Some had already made difficult decisions in response to the cuts, including laying off employees and canceling scheduled trainings.
The reason for the reversal wasn’t immediately clear, and spokespeople for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services didn’t respond to requests for comment Wednesday night.
Cuts had affected a wide range of programs
The grant cancellations had pulled back funding for a wide swath of discretionary grants and represented about a quarter of SAMHSA’s overall budget. They built on other, wide-ranging cuts that have been made at HHS, including the elimination of thousands of jobs and the freezing or canceling of billions of dollars for scientific research.
The cuts had thrown into jeopardy programs that give direct mental health services, opioid treatment, drug prevention resources, peer support, and more to communities affected by addiction, mental illness and homelessness.
“Without that funding, people are going to lose access to lifesaving services,” Yngvild Olsen, former director of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and a national adviser at Manatt Health, said earlier Wednesday.
SAMHSA, a sub-agency of HHS, notified grant recipients that their funding would be canceled effective immediately in emailed letters on Tuesday evening, according to several copies received by organizations and reviewed by The Associated Press.
The letters, signed by SAMHSA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Christopher Carroll, justified the terminations using a regulation that says the agency may terminate any federal award that “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.”
Grant recipients who were notified of the cancellations said they were confused by that explanation and didn’t get any further detail about why the agency felt their work didn’t match up with SAMHSA’s priorities.
“The goal of our grants is entirely in line with the priorities listed in that letter,” said Jamie Ross, CEO of the Las Vegas-based PACT Coalition, a community organization focused on substance use issues that lost funding from three grants totaling $560,000.
Grant recipients were already taking action in response to the cuts
Organizations reeling from the news on Wednesday told the AP they had already been forced to cut staff and cancel trainings. In the long term, many had been considering whether they could keep programs alive by shuffling them to different funding sources or whether they’d need to stop the services altogether.
Robert Franks, CEO of the Boston-based mental health provider the Baker Center for Children and Families, which was told Tuesday it was losing two federal grants totaling $1 million, said Wednesday afternoon that the loss of funding would force his organization to lay off staff and put care in jeopardy for some 600 families receiving it.
One of his organization’s canceled grants had been awarded through the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, a more than 20-year-old program supporting specialized care for children who have been through traumatic events ranging from sexual abuse to school violence.
Franks said his organization’s work directly advances SAMHSA’s goals to address mental illness. He said trauma care provided to children through his organization helps people from all walks of life and reduces burdens on other parts of society. He could not be reached late Wednesday to respond to the news of the grant reinstatements.
Both Ross and Ryan Hampton, founder of the advocacy nonprofit Mobilize Recovery, told the AP they hadn’t yet been notified of any reversal to the grant cuts they’d been notified of Tuesday night.
The National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors, a group that represents local organizations that deliver safety net services, sent a letter to its members on Wednesday noting that multiple of its partners estimated the slashed grants totaled around 2,000 and likely amounted to some $2 billion. The group said the funding pullbacks appeared to focus on grants classified as Programs of Regional and National Significance.
The group said it believed certain block grants, 988 suicide and crisis lifeline funding and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics were spared from the cuts.
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — A Costa Rican activist and government critic accused of plotting to kill President Rodrigo Chaves said Wednesday that the allegations were ridiculous and politically motivated.
Costa Rica’s national security chief Jorge Torres told prosecutors Tuesday that a hitman allegedly received a payment to assassinate the president, but details of the case were not publicly revealed at the time.
Hours later, local media published screenshots of messages Torres included in his complaint against activist Stella Chinchilla supposedly showing her complaining to alleged hitmen that they hadn’t done their job.
Chinchilla, vice president of the human rights advocacy group Friends for Peace Center, said in an interview with The Associated Press that she appeared Wednesday before the Public Ministry to hear details of the case. She confirmed that the screenshots were part of the case, but said they were fake and that she was being targeted because of her criticism of Chaves’ administration on social media.
“I have not written a single comma of what is there,” Chinchilla said. “Morally, I would not order the killing of this president; he has to leave on his own feet, from the government and the country, because he has done too much damage.”
She said that media outlets aligned with Chaves had access to the alleged evidence before it had even been received by prosecutors, and that the accusations were part of broader government harassment.
The president’s office said on Tuesday night hat his security had been reinforced.
“This is not a minor warning, nor speculation; it is a serious threat to the country’s democratic stability,” said Jeffrey Cerdas, head of presidential security.
The accusation came as Chaves received El Salvador’s populist leader Nayib Bukele, who has gained fame and notoriety abroad, and popularity in his country, for his heavy-handed crackdown on criminal gangs.
The two leaders attended the groundbreaking Wednesday of a new prison modeled on Bukele’s mega-prison built for alleged gang members. Chaves has sent Costa Rican officials to El Salvador to learn more about how to emulate Bukele’s style of law enforcement.
Costa Rica is experiencing a serious security crisis attributed to drug trafficking gangs that have led historic high homicide rates. The year 2025 ended with 877 homicides, just three fewer than in 2024, while 2023 recorded the highest figure with 907 killings.
Kelly Clarkson is back in action — and back in top form — on The Kelly Clarkson Show following time away after the death of her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock in 2025.
But even amid personal heartbreak, Clarkson’s love for country music hasn’t gone anywhere.
This week, the Texas native delivered a jaw-dropping version of The Red Clay Strays’ “No One Else Like Me” during her Kellyoke segment — and fans are calling it one of her most powerful covers yet.
The song originally appeared on the Alabama band’s 2024 breakout album Made by These Moments, and it’s not an easy one to tackle.
But Clarkson matched frontman Brandon Coleman’s signature grit and intensity note for note, bringing her own powerhouse vocal style and emotional depth to the track.
The Rise of The Red Clay Strays
In just a few short years, The Red Clay Strays have gone from underground favorites to major country and Americana contenders.
Watch Kelly Clarkson Cover The Red Clay Strays’ “No One Else Like Me”:
They were named Emerging Act of the Year at the 2024 Americana Awards, won New Vocal Duo or Group at the 2025 ACMs, and earned multi-platinum certification for their single “Wondering Why.” Their debut album, Moment of Truth, also went gold.
By the end of 2025, they had cemented their place in the mainstream, delivering a standout performance of “People Hatin’” at the CMA Awards — and dethroning Old Dominion for Vocal Group of the Year.
A Perfect Match of Voices
Brandon Coleman is known for his gritty, soulful delivery — the kind of voice that cuts deep. Clarkson, of course, is one of the only vocalists who could not only meet that energy but elevate it.
Covering a Red Clay Strays song is no small feat, but Clarkson made “No One Else Like Me” completely her own.
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Kelly Clarkson has never released a full country project, but she’s still country royalty in our eyes! Here are 10 of Clarkson’s best country performances, from her twangiest Kellyoke covers to a collaboration with two of the hottest modern-day country acts.
The world’s largest contract chip maker ended 2025 with another quarter of record earnings amid supply challenges and mounting pressure to bring production to American soil.
The New York Giants are working to finalize an agreement with former Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh to be their next coach, ESPN has reported. The deal is not done just yet, and contract numbers are still being negotiated. However, it appears Harbaugh has chosen his suitor.
Harbaugh was fired by the Ravens on Jan. 6 following Baltimore’s season-ending loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was the winningest coach in franchise history, going 180-113 during his 18 seasons, won Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 and was named Coach of the Year in 2019.
While Harbaugh won 10 playoff games in his first seven seasons with the Ravens, he won just three postseason matchups over the last 11 years. Harbaugh was reportedly confident he would return to Baltimore to chase a Lombardi Trophy in 2026, but the Ravens made the decision to search for another coach that can get the most out of two-time NFL MVP Lamar Jackson.
When the Ravens made the surprising decision to fire Harbaugh, his agent said he received calls from seven different teams expressing interest in his client 45 minutes after the news broke, per ESPN. There were only six other head coach openings at the time. Harbaugh formally interviewed with the Giants on Wednesday with team owners John Mara and Steve Tisch reportedly in attendance, along with quarterback Jaxson Dart, per NFL Media.
Harbaugh is set to replace Brian Daboll, who went 20-40-1 in his four seasons as lead man. The former Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator went 9-7-1 in his first season back in 2022, won NFL Coach of the Year and upset the Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs. However, the Giants took a step back the next season with a 6-11 record, and went 3-14 in 2024 before Daboll was finally fired 10 games into the 2025 season.
Overall, the Giants have struggled ever since Tom Coughlin resigned following the 2015 season. All four full-time head coaches finished with losing records. The Giants have the second-worst record in the NFL (55-109-1) in the 10 seasons since the Coughlin era ended. Only the New York Jets have been worse.
New York owns the No. 5 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, has a prospective franchise quarterback in Dart, a talented running back with Cam Skattebo, a star wideout in Malik Nabers and then plenty of talent on the defensive line with Brian Burns, Dexter Lawrence II and Abdul Carter. Now, they have new hope that comes in the form of an experienced coach that knows how to not only find success, but sustain it.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A push for more housing in the city is drawing both criticism and support from the community as city officials consider allowing more duplexes in neighborhoods. The Land Use, Zoning, and Planning meeting concluded Wednesday night with proposed changes to the city’s zoning code, which prompted hours of discussion among concerned […]
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ICE recruitment error meant some officers were sent out into field without proper training, sources say
