Have you ever wanted to live like the members of Lady Antebellum? Besides having a music career, you’re now able to, thanks to their new Heartland Home Collection.  The line, featuring Americana-inspired bed and bath lines inspired by the band’s lifestyle, songs and stories, is now available at Bed, Bath & Beyond stores around the country. The collection also has its own tour bus that will travel with them on their Wheels Up 2015 Tour, which kicks off Friday (May 1^st) in Lubbock, Texas.

“I actually am kind of picky about my sheets on my bed,” says Lady A’s Hillary Scott. Bandmate Charles Kelley agrees. “I’m a sheet guy. I don’t like a big comforter, it’s too heavy. That’s where my wife and I, it’s a constant ‘How heavy is the comforter supposed to be?’”

The line, which includes 18 items for the bedroom, including throw pillows, pillow shams, curtains and comforter sets, embraces the comfort, simplicity and beauty of America’s Heartland.  Featuring an unexpected mix of plaids, florals and solids, the collection offers a fresh approach to traditional American design, finding inspiration from across the country.  The result is a new heritage of authentic home living that feels true and looks fresh every day.

Lady A are making their way up the charts with their latest single, “Long Stretch of Love.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 1, 2015) – As announced by Billboard and dick clark productions, GRAMMY Award-winning group Little Big Town is slated to perform their latest smash single, “Girl Crush,” on this month’s Billboard Music Awards. The haunting lead vocals from Karen Fairchild will be paired with special guest, superstar Faith Hill, to add another powerful dimension to the heart-wrenching ballad. The awards air Live from Las Vegas May 17th at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

“Girl Crush” saw record sales last week following Little Big Town’s performance on the Academy of Country Music Awards. Once again, the ACM Vocal Group of the Year sees record-setting sales figures on their current Top 20 single. Clearing a 13% sales growth taking the weekly total to over 109,500 tracks, this marks the second straight week “Girl Crush” has set the largest one-week sales figure for a Country track in 2015.  It is also the No. 3 most-downloaded song across all genres.  Overall sales for the song currently top 630,000, and while sales are moving faster than the paperwork, “Girl Crush” is also now officially RIAA-certified GOLD. (The single qualified for Gold recognition after last week’s sales high.)

“Girl Crush” is the follow-up single to Little Big Town’s No. 1, Gold-selling single, “Day Drinking,” off the group’s ACM-nominated Album of the Year, Pain Killer (Capitol Records).

To preview and purchase “Girl Crush” and Pain Killer, click HERE.

For more information on Little Big Town, visit www.LittleBigTown.com.

New MCA artist Clare Dunn will join Miranda Lambert on her newly resurrected Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour this fall. The all-woman trek will also feature RaeLynn and Ashley Monroe.

Miranda decided to up the ante and add a few new faces to the bill including Clare Dunn, who she recently saw perform at the Stagecoach Festival. “I hadn’t seen her before — but I’m a fan now,” Miranda said. “You don’t see that many women who get up there and really slay a guitar and play some real rock ‘n’ roll country.”

Miranda has been supportive of her fellow female artists for years and feels strongly about continuing that pattern. “I really support female artists in any genre, especially country music right now,” Lambert said. “I’ve taken girls on tour for a long time and I want to continue to do that because I feel like I can give them a platform”.

Expect to be wowed in these cities:  Missoula, MT – Billings, MT – Rapid City, SD- Mankato, MN – Augusta, GA – Fayetteville, NC – Roanoke, VA – Huntsville, AL – Tupelo, MS – Jonesboro, AR – Lacrosse, WI – Ft. Wayne, IN and Moline, IL.

Darius Rucker reunited with his bandmates in Hootie & the Blowfish Thursday night (April 30th) on The Late Show With David Letterman to perform “Hold My Hand” for one of the iconic host’s last shows. The band first played that song on the show in 1994, and it launched them into the stratosphere. The band is comprised of Darius, , Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, and they formed it at the University of South Carolina in 1986.

Darius is getting ready to hit the airwaves with his new single, “Southern Style,” the title track from his recent No. 1 country album.

Chris Stapleton has a voice other artists envy and celebrate, having him guest on many of their songs that he wrote, including the No. 1 “Drink a Beer,” as well as two that are on the charts right now – Gary Allan’s “Hangover Tonight” and Thomas Rhett’s “Crash and Burn.” The gravelly, powerful and touching voice has been in Nashville for the last 15 years and tells us he can’t remember a time he didn’t sing.

“I don’t ever remember not singing. I always sang. I sang with my brother. We would sing at home and sing at church and different things. I don’t ever remember not singing. I don’t have any memory of where I didn’t sing,” says the Kentucky native. “I don’t know how you find that out [of my path as an artist]. I found it out, because I didn’t like anything else. I found out a bunch of things that I was not. I sold cars and drove an ice truck and went to college and did different things, not in that order, but you find out who you’re not. And the thought of doing anything else just made me so miserable. I think that really [laughs] kind of steered my path, for better or worse.”

Chris’ solo debut album, Traveller, is available on Tuesday (May 5th).

New York, N.Y. – May 1, 2015 – Darius Rucker and Jennifer Nettles will host the 2015 iHeartRadio Country Festival, bringing together Country music’s biggest superstars all on one stage at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas on Saturday, May 2nd. This year’s incredible lineup will feature Darius, Little Big Town, Dierks Bentley, Sam Hunt, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, The Band Perry and Tyler Farr, as well as special guest appearances by Bobby Bones, Big & Rich, Cody Alan, Brooklyn Decker, Craig Robinson, Eric Decker and Jessie James Decker.

The iHeartRadio Country Festival will video stream live exclusively on Yahoo Live, where fans have the freedom to stream the concert for free wherever they are through the Yahoo Screen App for iOS and Android, and on connected devices including Apple TV, Roku, XBox, Tivo and www.yahoo.com/iheartcountry.  It will also broadcast live on iHeartMedia Country radio stations across the U.S. on Saturday, May 2nd at 7 p.m. CT. NBC will televise the iHeartRadio Country Festival on NBC Wednesday, May 27th from 9-11 p.m. ET/ 8-10 p.m. CT.

“I am thrilled to host the iHeartRadio Country Music Festival and celebrate our beautiful country community of music and musicians,” said Nettles.  “I’m excited to share the stage with some of the biggest names in country music. It’s going to be a wonderful night in the great town of Austin and I look forward to being a part of it.”

“Growing up in South Carolina, I would lay in bed at night listening to all kinds of music and commentary from deejays on the air. It actually led me to go into sports broadcasting in college, so I have always wanted an opportunity to try my skills at being one of those commentators. I can’t think of a better opportunity to talk directly to the fans — and bring them some great music — than co-hosting this fantastic night with some really awesome friends,” said Rucker.

Proud partners of this year’s event include Bud Light, Firestone®, Mtn Dew® DEWshine™, NBC, State Farm® and Tito’s Handmade Vodka.

Tickets are on sale now at TexasBoxOffice.com and for more information visit iHeartRadio.com/countryfestival. The iHeartRadio Country Festival is an iHeartMedia Production.

Lady Antebellum kick off the North American leg of their Wheels Up 2015 Tour Friday (May 1st) in Lubbock, Texas. The band’s set will begin with their new single, “Long Stretch of Love,” which they say is representative of where they are at right now.

“That’s what we want to be the first statement we make at the top of the set,” says Lady A’s Hillary Scott. “It’s the most representative of us right now, where we are, the longevity that we are wanting to continue to strive for as a band, and it’s a rocker!”

The trek, which will run into the fall, will feature Sam Hunt and Hunter Hayes.

Chris Stapleton did a little soul-searching in the desert to really find his “voice” for his solo debut album, Traveller, which comes out Tuesday (May 5th). The collection leads off with the title track, the song that really helped guide the album’s direction.

“My father passed away in October 2013, and [I] had a single die around the same time on radio, so I needed a little head clearing space. My wife had the presence of mind to know me well enough that I needed that. She bought me an old jeep out in Phoenix, Arizona, and we flew out there and decided to drive it home,” recalls Chris. “Along the way, just driving through the desert, I was thinking about life and how we’re all just passing through it and that’s what the song is. So, as I was driving, I was humming lyrics into my phone and wrote the song then and there. Somewhere in New Mexico, probably, that song was born.”

Chris, who penned the No. 1 hits “Drink a Beer” for Luke Bryan, “Never Wanted Nothing More” for Kenny Chesney, George Strait’s “Love’s Gonna Make It Alright,” “Come Back Song” for Darius Rucker and “Your Man” for Josh Turner, wrote or co-wrote 12 of the 14 songs on the new project. The other two are covers of “Tennessee Whiskey,” which was recorded by David Allan Coe, as well as George Jones (and written by Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove), and “Was It 26,” which was recorded by Charlie Daniels and written by Don Sampson.

You can catch Chris performing on ABC’s The View on Tuesday.

Brothers Osborne ended their run on Eric Church‘s The Outsiders World Tour, and when they came back to their tour bus, it was filled with helium balloons. So, the boys decided to have a little fun of their own with the headliner, and sent out their logo beach balls into his crowd. Check it out below.

Brothers Osborne have hit the airwaves with their brand new single, “Stay a Little Longer.”

Nashville, Tennessee – (April 30, 2015) – The stars are aligning for the 25^th Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game, a fan favorite event and longstanding tradition of CMA Music Festival! Suiting up to play in this year’s game are “Nashville” star and singer/songwriter Charles Esten; “Stealing Cinderella” singer and national radio morning show co-host Chuck Wicks; rising country star and “American Idol” finalist Lauren Alaina; guitar slayer and country music vocalist Lindsay Ell; reigning ACM and CMA Vocal Group of the Year Little Big Town; and hitmakers Love and Theft.  After a twenty-year run playing in the City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game, country music icon Vince Gill is returning to the field for this special milestone event. The full line-up of celebrity players stepping up to the plate on the Grand Ole Opry and iHeartRadio teams will be announced in the coming weeks.

Taking place on June 13 at 9 a.m. from the state-of-the-art field at First Tennessee Park in Nashville, Tennessee, the City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game is gearing up to celebrate 25 years of striking out cancer. Tickets for the City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game are on sale now at Ticketmaster.

Each year, the Celebrity Softball Game regularly features some of Country Music’s biggest and hottest stars. Over the years, Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Scotty McCreery, Vince Gill and many more have taken to the field in support of City of Hope’s lifesaving mission.

City of Hope is an independent biomedical research institution and comprehensive cancer center where scientists and physicians quickly transform scientific discoveries into better treatments and prevention strategies for people around the world. Support from the Nashville community and its country music artists directly benefit City of Hope’s mission to find cures for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.

Tickets for the game can be purchased through Ticketmaster. Get more information on the game and the line-up of celebrities at www.cityofhope.org/softball. Those not able to attend the game can still support the cause. A variety of unique merchandise and experiences, including meet-and-greets with the hottest artists, will be available for bid at charitybuzz.com. The proceeds will benefit City of Hope’s mission to eradicate cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

To request media credentials for the 25^th Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game, apply HERE.

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About City of Hope
City of Hope is an independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Designated as a comprehensive cancer center, the highest recognition bestowed by the National Cancer Institute, City of Hope is also a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, with research and treatment protocols that advance care throughout the nation. City of Hope’s main hospital is located in Duarte, California, just northeast of Los Angeles. It is ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” in cancer by U.S.News & World Report. Founded in 1913, City of Hope is a pioneer in the fields of bone marrow transplantation and genetics. For more information, visit www.cityofhope.org or follow City of Hope on facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram or flickr.