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Keith Urban’s FUSE is one of the four-time Grammy Award winner’s most successful album releases to date. It marked the only time in history that a male Country artist had captured the #1 all-genre album chart simultaneously in the U.S., Canada and Australia, spawned four #1 songs, including Urban’s 18th #1 “Raise ‘Em Up,” extended his historic streak of Top 10 singles to thirty-three and garnered nearly two dozen Award nominations from around the globe.
What would you do if someone STOLE your most valuable possessions?
Zane Williams wrote them a song and shared it on social media!
Country music singer/songwriter Zane Williams and his band fell prey to a random act of “unkindness” this weekend when they stopped for lunch just outside of Houston, TX. The musicians’ van and the trailer full of equipment and instruments were stolen from the parking lot of the restaurant where they had stopped for a bite to eat. In true Zane Williams fashion, the prolific songwriter penned a tune speaking directly to the thieves and posted his calm, yet stern, acoustic delivery on his social media pages. We have been informed that the trailer has been located and recovered, but the van containing some heirloom instruments remains stolen.
You can see and hear Zane’s performance here: https://youtu.be/2DicXacaBtI
Please help us support Zane and the band by sharing this release.
www.zanewilliamsmusic.com
L to R: Dallas Davidson, Luke Bryan, Randy Houser, Austin Marshall, Maggie Rose, Ben Hayslip and Rhett Akins
Credit: Getty / Rick Diamond
With the help of A-List friends and performers, the Peach Pickers raised more than $100,000 at the second annual “Jameson® Irish Whiskey Presents Georgia On My Mind” concert on May 12, 2015 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. The intimate evening featured performances by ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell as well an acoustic performance by Randy Houser, eliciting two standing ovations in the Mother Church of Country Music.
Credit: Danny Clinch
Dead Inside” the first single from Muse’s forthcoming seventh studio album – Drones – holds its reign on the top of the Mediabase and Billboard Modern Rock Charts this week. “Dead Inside” is the trio’s fourth #1 song. Muse holds the record for number of weeks at #1 with their song “Madness” which set the record back in 2012. Warner Bros. Records will release Drones on June 9th.
Maxx Recordings, a full service label founded and led by Maximum Artist Group’s Mitchell Solarek, introduced it’s first signing, buzz band 3for3, at a star-studded launch party in Nashville tonight. The group is set to launch a single next month, as well as a tour this fall. Additionally, Solarek announced that the full-service entertainment group is partnering with Sony RED and New Day Christian for distribution of the multi-genre enterprise and has also signed Kolby Koloff and Riley Clemmons. Maximum Artist Group is home to award-winning artists such as Natalie Grant, Donald Lawrence, Danny Gokey and award-winning producer Bernie Herms.
What: FOX News Channel’s (FNC) FOX & Friends All-American Summer Concert Series presents American country singer Jerrod Niemann on Friday, May 22nd, 2015 at 8AM/ET. The chart-topping country singer is known for hit songs such as: “Drink to That All Night” and “Lover Lover.” A former American Country Award “Artist of the Year: Breakthrough Artist” nominee, Niemann will perform his greatest hits and dish on his summer tour. Continue Reading →
Kaleidoscope Media has teamed up with The East Nashvillian to celebrate one of the city’s most vibrant communities, showcase talented local musicians and raise money for charity.
Produced by Forest Glen Whitehead and Jason Massey, THE FIRST TIME highlights Ballerini’s skillful songwriting and contagious personality on all 12 songs.
This debut effort from Black River Entertainment artist Kelsea Ballerina can be summed up in one word by me: FABULOUS!
It is rare that a song, let along an entire album captivates me so. Since I received the advance copy last Wednesday, it has not left my CD player. I have even worn it out to the point that it is skipping now!
From the catchy, upbeat first song “XO” to the last song, a beautiful ballad, “Underage”, you will be drawn into Kelsea’s engaging world. I literally can not get enough of it. A perfect fit for summer to roll the windows down to and sing along with her fresh, contemporary country grooves.
Photo credit: Jeremy Ryan
Black River Entertainment recording artist Kelsea Ballerini has been counting down to the release of her debut album THE FIRST TIME on 5/18 and will celebrate this week with a national media blitz across several platforms, including performing her Top10-and-rising smash “Love Me Like You Mean It” (Ballerini, Whitehead, Kerr, Carpenter).
Eight years in the making, Gloriana is a band forged by hard work and perseverance. Enduring circumstances that would have torn many artists apart, Gloriana has not only survived; they’ve thrived. On June 2, Gloriana will release their first new album in three years. THREE is a reflection of their triumphs and challenges along their journey as a band.
