ARTIST RED CARPET ARRIVALS, FASHION SHOW, MUSIC, MARKETPLACE, LIFESTYLE EXHIBITS, AND MORE ADDED TO FAN FAIR HALL DURING 2012 CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL IN NASHVILLE Individual Tickets to the Fan Fair Hall at the Nashville Convention Center Available for $25; $20 if Purchased With a CMA Music Festival Nightly Concert Ticket for LP Field NASHVILLE – [...]

Check out this year’s lineup below. TICKET INFO 2012 Lineup • Radiohead • Red Hot Chili Peppers • Phish • The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks) • Bon Iver • The Avett Brothers • The Shins • Foster The People • Skrillex • Aziz Ansari • Dispatch [...]

COOL PEPPER DISC TO MARK BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH RELEASE OF FIVE NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD RECORDINGS BY THE IMPRESSIONS ‘Never Too Much Love’ and Other Songs Available for Digital Download on Feb. 1      NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 2012) – Cool Pepper Disc, a Nashville record label owned by hit songwriter/producer/publisher Jerry Michael, will mark Black History Month by releasing five [...]

Marco Club Connection Names Top Ten Country Dance Club Hits for 2011 (Nashville, Tenn. – Jan. 9, 2012)  Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton topped the list of dance club hits in 2011, according to the Marco Club Connection’s 8th annual ranking of Country dance favorites. Every December, the Nashville-based company surveys a panel of nearly 250 [...]

CHRIS YOUNG STARTS NEW YEAR WITH A BANG AT SOLD OUT SHOW IN TEXAS Young Holds Biggest Headlining Show and Adds Other Big Dates For 2012 January 3, 2012 – Nashville, TN– Everything is bigger in Texas, and Chris Young’s blow out New Year’s Eve sold out show at Billy Bob’s Ft. Worth is no exception.  [...]

Sarah Darling Warms Up to Crock-Pot By Christian Bottorff © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Sarah Darling has landed a new venture as the first celebrity spokeswoman for the national Crock-Pot Crockstars Confessionals campaign to support recipe sharing for the line of slowcookers. This is no small marketing campaign. [...]

1.     How did you guys start this band? What’s the story of how you all came together? WELL, I STARTED MEMPHIS CRAWL BACK IN 2004-WE’VE HAD A BUNCH OF LINEUP CHANGES SINCE THE START.BUT SINCE 2009 IT’S BEEN MYSELF ON VOCALS, MAD FREIK ON BASS, MIKEY POWDER ON DRUMS AND BRYAN STEVENS ON LEAD GUITAR [...]

VANNA and A LOSS FOR WORDS Contribute to H.E.L.L Benefit Compilation Pre-Order Available Now Vanna’s unreleased song , “Every Bridge” is streaming live now at Absolutepunk.net!!! http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=100021042 In 2007, Gordon Riker & Kelly Wallace both tragically passed away in bike accidents in Boston, MA. Shortly after, friends of their’s started a non-profit organizaiton titled H.E.L.L. (Helping Everyone [...]

Shady Records’ Slaughterhouse Shuts Down New York City Emerging super hip-hop group brings fire to the stage at Highline Ballroom (NEW YORK) December 20, 2011 – Shady Records’ noted lyrical hip-hop group, Slaughterhouse performed for a packed crowed at Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom last Tuesday evening. The performance showcased individual songs of each band member – [...]

Blue Light City– the third full length studio recording from psychedelic rock band Turbine debuted at #3 in the Relix / Homegrown Music radio charts and has raised the bar for the band and—possibly, in terms of studio recordings, for the broader jam rock community as a whole. Produced by Grammy-winner John Davis (The Black Keys), Blue Light City evokes the [...]