LifeNotes: Alan Jackson’s Son-In-Law Ben Selecman Dies

Samuel Benton “Ben” Selecman, husband of Mattie Jackson Selecman and son-in-law of country artist […]

Spotify Increases Download Limit To 10,000 Tracks

Spotify has increased the number of songs Premium users can download to a single device, […]

TobyMac To Release ‘The Elements’ In October

TobyMac will return with his first new album in three years, when The Elements releases [..]

MV2 Expands Creative Team With Mike Whelan And Ben Strain

MV2 Entertainment has added industry vets Mike Whelan as Senior Creative Director and Ben […]

Nashville Startup AVVAY Announces $1 Million Seed Round

Nashville startup AVVAY, an online marketplace that helps creatives book locations for […]

DISClaimer: Malcolm Holcombe Leads Gifted Americana Sounds

It’s Americana week in Music City, and the listening is groovy. The spectacularly gifted Malcolm […]

ASCAP’s ‘I Create Music’ Expo 2019 Set For May 2-4

ASCAP’s 14th annual “I Create Music” EXPO will return to the Loews Hollywood Hotel in […]

Bobby Bones, Charles Esten To Be Honored At Musicians On Call Celebration

Bobby Bones and Charles Esten will be honored during A Night To Celebrate the Healing Power […]

Americana Gala Honors Tried And True

The 2018 Americana Music Honors & Awards celebration at the Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday […]

Exclusive: Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley Talk Joining Thomas Rhett’s Tour As DJ Duo “ADHD”

For the next few weeks, songwriters Jesse Frasure and Ashley Gorley are adding an interesting […]

Dolly Parton And Sia Duet To Release At Midnight, From Forthcoming Netflix Movie Dumplin’

Dolly Parton has been working on original music for an upcoming motion picture titled Dumplin’ […]

Justin Adams Signs With Spirit Music Nashville/Fluid Music Revolution

Spirit/Fluid, the Nashville-based joint venture between Spirit Music Group and Frank Rogers’ […]

All Them Witches Announce New Video, Album, Tour

Nashville rock band All Them Witches released a new music video today (Sept. 12) for the […]

Taylor Swift, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown Earn Multiple American Music Awards Nominations

The nominations for the American Music Awards were revealed Wednesday morning (Sept. 12), […]

Bobby Karl Works The Room: Tony Joe White, The War & Treaty Help Launch AmericanaFest 2018

The Americana Music convention got a whomper-stomper kick-off on Tuesday evening (Sept. 11). The […]

Music Expo Nashville Announces Additional Panelists

Music Expo Nashville, set for Sept. 22, has announced some additional speakers to its lineup […]

BMI Sets Record With Nearly $1.2 Billion In Revenues

BMI has announced the performance rights organization has generated $1.199 billion in revenues for the […]

Miranda Lambert Launches New Boot Barn Idyllwind Collection

Miranda Lambert and Boot Barn have teamed up to present Idyllwind – Fueled by Miranda Lambert, […]

Jason Padgitt Named Executive Director Of Nashville Film Festival

Jason Padgitt has been appointed the new Executive Director for the Nashville Film Festival […]

Loeb & Loeb Adds Farrah Usmani To Nashville Office

Farrah A. Usmani has joined the Loeb & Loeb LLP Nashville office as an associate in its Music […]

Spotify To Integrate Nielsen Brand Effect For Marketer Advertising

Spotify and Nielsen have announced an expansion of their relationship to include the […]

Phil Vassar, Lonestar Announce Holiday Tour

Phil Vassar and Lonestar will embark on the “The Not So Silent Night Tour” in November. […]

Dierks Bentley To Lead Ralph And Carter Stanley Tribute In October

Dierks Bentley will be joined by a star-studded lineup featuring Dan Auerbach, the Gibson […]

Cody Johnson Talks Warner Nashville Deal, Upcoming Album

Earlier this year, when singer-songwriter Cody Johnson became the first independent artist […]

Bill Anderson, MercyMe Among 8th Annual NATD Gala Honorees

The Nashville Association of Talent Directors (NATD) has announced six highly-respected […]

Industry Ink: Deborah Allen, Pilgrimage Food Drive, Michael Ray, Compassion Live, YEP Podcast

Deborah Allen was recently honored by BMI at their Nashville offices with Million-Air certifications […]

Bobby Karl Works The Room: John Prine Honored With BMI Troubadour Award

I always define the amorphous Americana Music genre as, “music we like,” and there’s no […]

Luke Bryan Celebrates New Bar With Concert In Downtown Nashville

Luke Bryan performed a free concert for 30,000 fans in the heart of downtown Nashville last night […]

Writers, Release Date Revealed For Brett Young’s Sophomore Album ‘Ticket To L.A.’

The second album from BMLG Records artist Brett Young, titled Ticket To L.A., […]

BMI Sponsors Fifth Annual Island Hopper Songwriters Festival

BMI is on board to sponsor the fifth annual Island Hopper Songwriters Festival presented […]

Lauren Daigle, Kirk Franklin, Natalie Grant Added To 49th Annual GMA Dove Awards

Another round of all-star performances for the 49th Annual GMA Dove Awards has been announced […]

Lucie Silvas Offers Picturesque Performance At Tennessee’s George Dickel Distillery

George Dickel Distillery has leaned into its music related presence the past couple years. […]

Molly Tuttle, Bully, Diarrhea Planet Among Openers For Jason Isbell’s Six-Night Ryman Run

As announced earlier this year, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit will return to the Ryman […]

Luke Bryan, UMG Nashville Launch 32 Bridge Entertainment With First Signing Jon Langston

Singer-songwriter Jon Langston has signed a record deal with Universal Music Group Nashville […]

Lauren Daigle Returns With Long-Awaited Album ‘Look Up Child’

“I was listening to an interview that John Mayer did and he said that he never makes a […]

Date Set For 54th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards

The Academy of Country Music announced today (Sept. 10) that the 54th Academy of Country Music […]

Country Music World Embraced Burt Reynolds

Few of the obituaries for Burt Reynolds noted that the Hollywood icon was also a […]

Rod Phillips Named Executive Vice President Of Country Programming Strategy at iHeartMedia

Rod Phillips has been promoted to the new position of Executive Vice President of Country Programming […]

Logan Ledger Signs With Rounder Records

T Bone Burnett’s Electro Magnetic Recordings has announced its artist Logan Ledger has […]

RIAA Reports 253 Song Awards, 57 Album Awards For August 2018

In August, RIAA certified 253 Song Awards and 57 Album Awards. Among them, the previously […]

Exclusive: Abby Anderson Brings Grooves And Soul To Debut EP

I’m driving fast and I’m not holding back, newcomer Abby Anderson sings on “This Feeling,” a […]

Average Joes’ Cypress Spring Readies Second Studio Album

Average Joes’ rising country trio, Cypress Spring, is set to release their second studio album […]

Tori Kelly Announces Hiding Place Tour, New Album

Tori Kelly will kick off a North American headline tour on Oct. 18 at The Tabernacle in […]

Zac Brown Band, Shawn Mendes To Meet At ‘CMT Crossroads’

CMT has announced multi-platinum stars Shawn Mendes and Zac Brown Band will tape an […]