ASCAP Offers License For Small Business Websites

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ascapASCAP has a new license geared toward small businesses and individuals who want to stream music on their website and mobile apps. The ASCAP Play Music License is designed to make obtaining an ASCAP license easier, more affordable and virtually maintenance-free.
The Play Music license is for web or mobile apps with fewer than 30,000 user visits per month, and less than $2,000 per month in revenue. The license costs $240 per year.
“At ASCAP, we want to make it as simple and cost-effective as possible to encourage the use of our members’ music,” commented Vice President of New Media Licensing Matt DeFilippis. “Music adds tremendous value to websites and mobile apps. We’re excited to offer a convenient way for individuals and small businesses to benefit from the use of ASCAP music while fairly compensating our songwriter, composer, lyricist and music publisher members.”
ASCAP licenses a catalog of over 8.5 million music works. Details about the new agreement are available at www.ascap.com/licensing/digital.

New Release Date For The Mavericks

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Mavericks_Band_Cover_VinylThe release of The Mavericks’ album In Time has been moved to Feb. 26. The band’s first studio album in ten years, and first for BMLG, was originally due out in January.
The Mavericks will kick off a tour in March, with dates to be announced next week. In the meantime, fans can catch them Jan. 19 at the Grand Ole Opry, Jan. 22 in Glasgow, Scotland and in a pre-release concert Feb. 25 at New York’s famed Bowery Ballroom. They  are currently sailing the high seas and performing on the Sandy Beaches Cruise.
Original members reuniting for the project include lead singer Raul Malo, drummer Paul Deakin, and multi-instrumentalist Robert Reynolds; as well as longtime keyboardist Jerry Dale McFadden and seasoned guitarist Eddie Perez.
Among the tracks on the new album is the Buck Owens-inspired “Dance In The Moonlight,” the Orbison-esque “Born To Be Blue,” the horn punctuated retro noir “Back In Your Arms Again” and Tejano-influenced “All Over Again.” The band’s “Come Unto Me” was featured on ABC’s Nashville Wednesday night.

GAC to Tell Lambert's "Backstory"

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lambertBackstory: Miranda Lambert will premiere Saturday, Jan. 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET on GAC. Miranda Lambert’s private investigator parents, husband Blake Shelton, friends and more will share stories about the multi-platinum artist and songwriter.
Four albums into her career, Lambert has netted three ACM and one CMA Album of the Year awards and is the reigning and three-time CMA and ACM Female Vocalist of the Year. While 2011 was a highlight year in her life with her marriage to Shelton and the release of the first Pistol Annies LP, it was also filled with personal challenges.
“It was like everything you could throw at us like cannonballs,” Lambert says of the death of Shelton’s father as well as the passing of one of her closest friends. “You picture newlywed bliss and really it was him living in LA, me on the road and us in the hospital a lot of the time.  It was just a lot to deal with.  It seemed that when that one-year anniversary hit, we could almost go ‘Phew, okay, now we’re ready.’”
Lambert, who’s currently on tour, concludes, “I always go with my gut. It’s never steered me wrong.”

The Band Perry Sets April Release Date

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The Band Perry
The Band Perry is set to release their as-of-yet untitled sophomore album on April 2, 2013. The lead single from the highly anticipated second release is “Better Dig Two.”
The trio’s debut self-titled album earned platinum status, and their chart-topping single “If I Die Young” went 4x platinum. The single also netted CMA Awards in 2011 for Single and Song of the Year.
The Band Perry earned trophies for Top New Artist and Top New Vocal Duo or Group from the Academy of Country Music in 2011.

50th Anniversary Memorial for Cline, Copas, Hawkins and Hughes

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Gone But Not ForgottenTo mark the 50th anniversary of the deaths of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes, the city of Camden, Tenn. will host three days of music and memories on Feb. 28-March 2, 2013. The event will feature concerts, a celebrity panel discussion, memorabilia and more.
Cline, Copas, Hawkins and Hughes died on March 5, 1963 when a plane carrying the four entertainers crashed in Camden, Tenn.
Cline’s legacy includes an unforgettable vocal style and a string of iconic songs, such as “Sweet Dreams (Of You),” “Crazy,” “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “I Fall To Pieces,” “She’s Got You” and others. Hughes was a session guitarist and promotion man who became Cline’s manager. Copas was part of the Pee Wee King band and often performed on the Grand Ole Opry. His 1952 single, “‘Tis Sweet to be Remembered,” cracked the Top 10 on the Billboard Country charts. Singer Hawkins was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was married to fellow singer Jean Shepard. His 1963 single, “Lonesome 7-7203” topped the Billboard Country charts.

Craig Morgan To Make Second Appearance on 'Hotel Impossible'

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Photo (L-R): Craig Morgan, Anthony Melchiorri

Photo (L-R): Craig Morgan, Anthony Melchiorri


Craig Morgan is set to make his second appearance on the Travel Channel’s Hotel Impossible. The episode, which features Alaska’s Glacier Bear Lodge, will air on Monday (Jan. 14) at 10 p.m. ET.
Morgan joins “hotel fixer” Anthony Melchiorri as they head north to fix the hotel dominated by commercial and sport fishermen.
The singer-songwriter previously joined Melchiorri on Hotel Impossible last summer in an episode that featured Nashville.

Primetime 'Nashville': Stones You Throw

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“Be Careful of Stones That You Throw”
Season 1 | Episode 109 | Aired 01/09/2013
Nashville shines when Juliette and Rayna share the screen. Their witty, often nipping, banter offers some of the show’s best lines, for instance, last night when Rayna assured Juliette she doesn’t hate her—”The only things I hate are sunburns and hangovers, this is just business.” Hopefully, these divas will have many more scenes together in upcoming episodes when they are on their co-headlining tour.
The five-month run will give Rayna and Teddy a break from their rocky marriage. On the downside, it will hold up recording her new album with producer Liam.

Among the episode’s highlights was seeing Teddy grow a backbone and stand up to his conniving father-in-law Lamar, who is threatening to expose the fact that Teddy is not the biological father of he and Rayna’s oldest daughter, Maddie.
The tour is also a great escape for Juliette, who eloped with football player Sean but then ditched him at the alter before the big, church wedding his mother planned. Instead, she hopped a jet during a montage backed by the episode’s only new song, “Change Your Mind.”
Hillary Lindsey, Gordie Sampson and Troy Verges wrote the song, but on the show it was penned by Scarlett and Gunnar. Elsewhere in Scarlett-land, she hopped back in the sack with Avery long enough to realize why they broke up in the first place, particularly after he ‘fessed up that he fired his longtime band because Atlanta-based producer Dominic Wells (Wyclef Jean) wanted to sign him as a solo act. Scarlett filled in as singer with his former band, which led to one of the episode’s best moments: the look of disbelief on Avery’s face when he saw a video of the performance.
Elsewhere, Deacon was on a major tour with legendary rock band The Revel Kings, but when old flame/journalist Carmen joined them on the road, she could tell he was struggling with the new situation.

People's Choice Awards Chooses Swift

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swiftTaylor Swift took home Favorite Country Artist at last night’s People’s Choice Awards. Olivia Munn and Johnny Galecki presented the fan voted award to Swift.
At the beginning of her speech, Munn pretended to interrupt Swift, who seemed to know it was all in good fun. “This always happens,” she sighed before going on to thank her fans.
Swift later returned to the stage to present the award for Favorite Movie, which went to The Hunger Games.
Swift wasn’t the only country artist on stage last night though. Jason Aldean, a fellow People’s Choice nominee, was among the show’s performers. Aldean sang his hit “My Kinda Party.”
A full list of the 2013 People’s Choice Awards nominees and winners can be found here.

Artist News (1/10/13)

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kenny chesney1ESPNU will air Kenny Chesney‘s The Color Orange: The Condredge Holloway Story on Sunday (Jan. 13) as part of the SEC ‘Storied’ Series. The documentary originally aired on ESPN in February 2011. Chesney wore Holloway’s jersey number when he played high school football and revered the University of Tennessee quarterback. The singer-songwriter produced and narrated the documentary, which highlights the life and career of the first African-American starting quarterback in the Southeastern Conference.

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Photo (L-R): Jimmie DeRamus, a.k.a. "Big Daddy" and Tracy Lawrence

Photo (L-R): Jimmie DeRamus, a.k.a. “Big Daddy” and Tracy Lawrence


Tracy Lawrence is set to appear on the History Channel’s Cajun Pawn Stars on Thursday (Jan. 10) at 8 p.m. CT. Lawrence plays the role of a customer who stops by the shop looking to sell his 1920s Martin guitar, along with a colorful 1960s suit from singer-songwriter Hank Snow.

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Photo Credit: Jeremy Cowart

Photo Credit: Jeremy Cowart


Eli Young Band will perform “Say Goodnight” on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Friday (Jan. 11).
 

MusicRowRecess: Paisley Hearts Honey Boo Boo

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Brad Paisley appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday (Jan. 9), where he premiered the video for a song Paisley jokingly referred to as the “theme song” to the TLC show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. As “Mama” June would say, “It is what it is.”

Watch the video below.

http://youtu.be/11Uq3iGESYM