Luke Bryan is among the stars appearing on the forthcoming album, Alabama & Friends, due in September. Supergroup Alabama enlisted his help to record their hit “Love in the First Degree,” on the album, which also features Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Toby Keith and Trisha Yearwood.

Luke Bryan’s “Crash My Party” has been added to the Choice Country Song nominees at this year’s Teen Choice Awards. The fan-voted awards will be handed out August 11th on FOX.

If you missed GAC’s new installment of Backstory featuring Gary Allan over the weekend, you can catch it as it repeats Monday (July 15th) at 10pm ET, Tuesday (July 16th) at 2am ET, August 17th (4pm ET), August 26th (11pm ET) or August 27th (3am ET).

Kacey Musgraves is scheduled to perform on NBC’s Tonight Show With Jay Leno on July 26th.

Sugarland’s Kristian Bush will take part in the CMA Songwriters Series at Joe’s Bar in Chicago August 1st. Hosted by songwriter Bob DiPiero, the event will also feature Matraca Berg and Bobby Pinson.

Darius Rucker‘s surprise invitation from Brad Paisley to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry is a moment he says he’ll always cherish, and now fans will be able to share that experience with him over and over again. Darius is the video host for one of two new tours that have been added to the Opry’s backstage tour line-up. The new tours are the “VIP Behind The Opry Curtain Tour” and the “Opry House Post-Show Tour,” which he hosts and where he discusses his induction into the Opry last October.