Sixthman, the leader in destination festivals at sea, is now offering a fully customizable set of services for brands, bands, promoters, conferences, and communities looking ahead to plan events who need the support of an experienced live events partner.

The services are designed to add value for event producers who may have had to scale down in recent months, and encompass the full pre-planning, on-site execution and post-production phases of event management. Sixthman Services are set up to encompass full event needs or a la carte options and Community Building, Design, Talent Procurement and Relations, Operations, Sponsorship, Merchandise Strategy, Inventory Management, Booking, Guest Services, Safety Protocols, Virtual Events and more are all now available to support event holders bringing their concepts to market.

Sixthman’s foray into customizable services began with their multiyear partnership with Turner Classic Movie’s TCM Cruise. Since 2011, Sixthman has been offering a suite of services to the highly-curated television network’s cruise event through web-development, inventory management, and reservation and guest services during the pre-event and on-site phases of their vacation venture, and by providing insights from detailed guest surveys post event.

“For the past twenty years, we’ve been honored to produce over 145 festivals on land, sand & sea for some of the globe’s most iconic actors, artists and athletes,” said Anthony Diaz, CEO Sixthman. “During that time, we’ve been fortunate to learn so much about creating, planning and promoting highly complex and engaging events. With the expansion of Sixthman Services, we are now fully set up to take our passion and experience to help others to create and produce successful events of all sizes and styles. We couldn’t be more excited to have the opportunity to help brands, bands and event holders bring communities back together in venues of all kinds when the time is right, and together virtually in the meantime.”

Sixthman’s destination festivals have long connected artists and fans through a focus on interactive artist and guest experiences. Artists and fans have enjoyed unprecedented experiences throughout the years including curation of Jon Bon Jovi and KISS Museums featuring rare memorabilia, Train and 311’s beer and wine tastings with the band’s own brands, Melissa Etheridge’s fine dining charity dinner, and many more. Sixthman’s history of investing attention into every detail in creating unique, once in a lifetime experiences showcase an ability to gracefully walk the line between creating a highly successful guest experience while generating results, whether the main goal is event revenue, boosting charitable streams, or engaging attendees.

Since the beginning of the year, Kane Brown has been rolling out new music, including a few pop collaborations, such as his work with Swae Lee and Khalid on his current Top 40 hit “Be Like That,” and with John Legend on “Last Time I Say Sorry.”

This Friday, Aug. 14, he will compile the four previously-released tracks, along with three new songs, on the seven-track project Mixtape Vol. 1 via RCA Nashville/Zone 4.

Brown co-wrote every track on the new project, which also includes his current Top 10 country hit “Cool Again,” and the timely “Worldwide Beautiful,” which calls for unity and love, and was released two days after the music industry observed Blackout Tuesday. Brown recently debuted “Worldwide Beautiful” at the 2020 BET Awards alongside gospel singer Jonathan McReynolds.

See the full track listing for Brown’s Mixtape Vol. 1 below:

1. “Cool Again” – Songwriters: Kane Brown, Josh Hoge, Matt McGinn and Lindsay Rimes; Producer: Dann Huff and Lindsay Rimes
2. “Be Like That (feat. Swae Lee and Khalid)”- Songwriters: Kane Brown, Khalif Brown, Alexander “Eskeerdo” Izquierdo, Khalid Robinson, Ryan Vojtesak and Mike Will; Producer: Charlie Handsome
3. “Worship You”- Songwriters: Kane Brown, Alexander Izquierdo, Ryan Vojtesak and Matt McGinn; Producer: Dann Huff
4. “BFE” – Songwriters: Kane Brown, Sam Ellis, Matt McGinn, Taylor Phillips and Will Weatherly; Producer: Dann Huff
5. “Didn’t Know What Love Was” – Songwriters: Kane Brown, Shy Carter, Matt McGinn and Lindsay Rimes; Producer: Dann Huff and Lindsay Rimes
6. “Last Time I Say Sorry (with John Legend)” – Songwriters: John Stephens, Kane Brown, Matt McGinn and Andrew Goldstein; Producer: Andrew Goldstein
7. “Worldwide Beautiful” – Songwriters: Kane Brown, Shy Carter, Ryan Hurd and Jordan Schmidt; Producer: Dann Huff

Instagram launched Instagram Reels this week in more than 50 countries, including the United States, in an effort to challenge short-form video platform TikTok. Instagram Reels is also available in global markets including France, Germany, the U.K., Australia and more.

Instagram launched Reels in Brazil in 2019 (where it was known as Cenas) and later expanded to markets including India earlier this year.

Instagram Reels allows users to craft and share 15-second videos, with editing tools including a countdown timer, AR effects, and music. Instagram Reels also allows for captions, hashtags, and tagging friends. Reels can also be published to Instagram Stories, though if published to Stories, they will disappear in 24 hours.

Instagram users with a public account can share reels to a dedicated space in Explore, where it can be seen and discovered by the wider Instagram community. Public users can also share their reels with followers by posting it on their feeds.

The Center of Nowhere (The Spirit and Sounds of Springfield, Missouri), a new documentary featuring Dan Penn, Brenda Lee and others, offers up a look at the history and celebration of “America’s most overlooked music scene.” The film was released earlier this week and is available digitally.

Weaving the tale of how the city shaped a sound, influencing country, folk, gospel, rock, and roots music globally, the film premiered at the County Music Hall of Fame and was nominated for the Maverick Award for Best Documentary, Best Director and Special Achievement for animation sequences, and was also an official selection at AmericanaFest and The St. Louis International Film Festival.

The film explores how Springfield created a fiercely independent sound that has influenced artists all over the world, and includes additional interviews with musicians such as Dave Alvin, The Del Lords, members of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, the pop rock band Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Jonathan Richman, Robbie Fulks, Syd Straw, and the final on-camera interviews with Merle Haggard and Springfield music avatars Bobby “Lloyd” Hicks and Lou Whitney.

Viewers can purchase or rent the film from digital platforms including Amazon, Vimeo and nationwide OnDemand on cable networks Comcast, Charter/Spectrum, and Cox.