Bringing it back to the music. The annual Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California has become a hotspot for influencers over the past few years, people who aren’t really interested in country music but want to throw on their cowboy hats and daisy dukes for a weekend so they can make TikToks and partner with brands for content. And that’s a big part of the reason Eric Church‘s performance back in 2024 was so controversial. If you don’t remember the performance (I’d be surprised), Church used his headlining slot to deliver an hour and a half acoustic performance, backed only by a gospel choir, during which he dug deep back into music history for everything from gospel classics like Hank Williams’ “I Saw The Light” to the Al Green hit “Take Me To The River” and Snoop Dogg’s “Gin & Juice.” It was ballsy. It pissed people off. And it was incredible. During the set, videos quickly began circulating of angry fans demanding that Church play his hits, and eventually leaving the show altogether. Plenty of people didn’t think that a headlining set at a festival was the type of place to try something like that. Some online declared that he had just committed “career suicide,” a comment that I quoted in the headline of an article summarizing the online backlash to the performance. And when Church was asked during a PBS documentary about that headline and how it made him felt, his response was exactly what you expected if you know anything about Eric Church: “Would it surprise you to say good?” He even compared the performance to Bob Dylan’s controversial set from the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 when he played with electric instruments: “It’s like Dylan goes electric at Newport, right? That didn’t go well, in the moment. People talk about that as a paradigm shift in music, but among people that were there in that crowd, and I talked to some people that were, it did not go well. And I think that sometimes you have to kind of put that out there creatively and go, ‘Hey, this is a one-time thing, and we’re giving it to this crowd for this moment. We’re doing it one time and we’re committing to the moment.’ And you’ve just kind of gotta follow that compass and go with it and let it go.” And in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Church admits that he went into the performance knowing that it wasn’t going to go well with the influencers who flock to Stagecoach: “I knew I wanted to do a one-of-a-kind show, and I knew maybe the worst place for the presentation would have been Stagecoach. But I also knew that it would have been the biggest megaphone, that there were going to be 30,000 TikTokers who were there to be seen. The show wasn’t for them. If we did that [performance] as a one-off at [one of Church’s usual] shows, people would have tore their clothes. It would have been a revival. But [at Stagecoach] I knew I was getting a casual thing where they’re wanting to hear “Drink in My Hand,” and they’re wanting to hear what they want to hear. And I’m giving them none of that.” Of course he’s right. Church played 20+ residency shows at his Nashville bar, Chief’s, and it was pure magic for everyone who was lucky enough to attend. He also recently announced a three night run at Red Rocks Amphitheater next month, with one of those shows being fully acoustic – and it sold out immediately. If Church had done the Stagecoach show for his own crowd, it would have been an instant classic for anyone in attendance and left anyone who wasn’t there jealous that they missed out. But because it was Stagecoach, a country music festival that’s more about the culture than the music, the crowd didn’t appreciate what they were seeing. They wanted a party, they wanted the hits, they wanted the clips for social media. What they got, instead, was a magical moment that put the music center stage. And Stagecoach is no place for that. The post Eric Church Says His Controversial Stagecoach Performance Wasn’t For The “30,000 TikTokers Who Were There To Be Seen” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Friday that it would restrict the number of arrivals and departures at Newark Liberty International Airport through the end of the year. Newark has been plagued with air traffic controller staffing shortages and telecommunications issues for months. The agency will limit the number of arrivals and departures at the airport to 34 per hour on weekdays until October 25th. It will limit the number of arrivals and departures during runway construction on weekends to 28 per hour from September 1st through December 31st. FAA slashes flights in, out of Newark Airport through end of 2025 https://t.co/E7Mx8g9WoA pic.twitter.com/ENn6L2riNe — New York Post (@nypost) June 7, 2025 Per Gothamist: While partial work on the runway concluded ahead of schedule last week, officials said weekend work would resume after the summer travel season, from Fridays at 11 p.m. through Sundays at 5 a.m. The finalized limits follow a hellish month of delays and cancellations for travelers through Newark. Thousands of flights were disrupted due to chronic staffing shortages at the airport’s air traffic control center in Philadelphia as well as critical technology outages and the runway closure, which lasted nearly two months. Federal officials initially implemented the flight caps last month to address congestion at Newark. “The FAA is looking to try to get ahead of the kind of chaos we saw when the runway was fully closed 24/7,” aviation analyst Jason Rabinowitz said Sunday.  “This was always the plan, except the FAA’s mitigation plan going into this was quite insufficient, unfortunately, so now they’ve kind of had to go back after the fact and retool things a bit.” The weekend limits starting in September will likely affect end-of-year holiday travel, including for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Newark is one of the busiest airports in the country and welcomed almost 49 million travelers last year, when holiday travel set new records at airports across the region, according to the Port Authority. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy visited Newark upon completion of the runway. “Newark’s runway is reopened for business,” Duffy said. “13 days ahead of schedule!” he added. WATCH: Newark’s runway is reopened for business…13 days ahead of schedule! Thank you @PANYNJ, @FAA_Chris, and @United CEO Scott Kirby for making this happen! We’ll continue to ensure flying is safe and efficient in Newark and across the board. pic.twitter.com/8OMw5dbQ28 — Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) June 3, 2025 From the New York Post: Runway 4L-22R, which shut down on April 15 after the FAA deemed it unsafe and ordered a $121 million repair project, reopened Monday, 13 days ahead of schedule. The closure had left just two open runways. The FAA last month cut Newark’s flight capacity to 56, a fraction of the 80-plus that used to fly in and out, during the project that had left just two open runways. The New Jersey airport has been embroiled in disaster after disaster this year, ranging from air traffic controller shortages to inexplicable technology glitches on top of the endless work. The mass chaos has left thousands of travelers stranded ever since the first tech disaster on April 28 saw a burnt-out copper wire spark a full-on blackout at the airport. Many pointed fingers at United Airlines, which makes up 75% of all Newark’s flight traffic, and accused it of overcrowding the airport — prompting the carrier’s CEO to vow that travel at the embattled airfield would be the “cheapest” they’ve ever been this summer.