Today, leading women’s fashion brand Maurices announced country music rising superstar Lauren Alaina as its celebrity brand ambassador. After over 90 years as a leader in women’s retail, and a staple in hometowns across the country, Maurices joins forces with Alaina for a year-long partnership.

Made the JEANious choice to partner with fashion's best kept secret, @maurices ! I'm so excited to be their 2022 brand ambassador. https://t.co/PuAO0rkNvs #discovermaurices #mauricesxLaurenAlaina pic.twitter.com/DYDkwUUiil

— Lauren Alaina (@Lauren_Alaina) January 19, 2022

Known for its fun, friendly service, and trusted stylists, Maurices offers a warm welcoming experience in its 900 stores across the U.S and Canada and is guided by its greater purpose of making a positive difference in the lives of women who are the heart of its hometowns.

“Lauren Alaina represents the essence of feel good fashion for real life,” says David Kornberg, CEO of Maurices. “Through this partnership, we are excited to build brand awareness and recognition with existing customers while introducing Lauren’s strong fanbase who aren’t aware of Maurices to their new favorite clothing brand. We are thrilled to partner with Lauren, who uses country music, faith, family, community and resilience to inspire women – all of which embody the Maurices customer.”

The partnership will feature tentpole content opportunities inclusive of the upcoming ‘Top of the World’ tour presented by Maurices, the “Hometown Heroes” program, and more

“Partnering with Lauren is the perfect match for Maurices,” says Laura Sieger, Chief Marketing Officer of Maurices. “She encompasses the DNA of our brand, and our core customer shares similar values of style, service, and community. As a small-town Georgia native, Lauren is the right fit to support our core purpose of making a positive difference in the lives of women who are the heart of our hometowns.”

“I am beyond excited and honored to be able to partner with Maurices as I kick off my 2022 ‘Top of the World’ tour presented by Maurices and inspire a new generation of women to look and feel their best in everything they do while shining a light on deserving women through the Hometown Heroes sweepstakes,” says Lauren Alaina.

Throughout her 2022 headlining tour, Alaina will be styled in some of her favorite Maurices looks. As part of the upcoming tour and brand partnership, Maurices and Alaina will shed light on and support deserving women with unique moments during the tour through the Maurices “Hometown Heroes” sweepstakes. The program will spotlight women who are hometown heroes, such as healthcare workers, educators, first responders, and military members, who give back to their communities across the country. The winners will be rewarded with a special experience inclusive of tickets to Alaina’s headlining concert near their hometown and the ultimate Maurices shopping spree to help them look and feel their best. The “Hometown Heroes” program will be offered in the following cities: Minneapolis, MN; Rosemont, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Columbus, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Tulsa, OK; Cedar Park, TX; Little Rock, AR; and Nashville, TN.

The partnership will continue throughout 2022 with various activations and tentpole moments including a CMA Fest sweepstakes prize package and an exclusive Maurices t-shirt design collaboration that will highlight Alaina’s love of puns and sassy phrases.

To learn more about Maurices and the partnership with Lauren Alaina, visit www.maurices.com/LaurenAlaina.

Lauren is making her way up the country charts with “Getting Over Him” featuring Jon Pardi.

Keith Urban’s “Wild Hearts” is closing in on Top 20 on the country charts, and it tells the story of his own wild heart, which started beating furiously at age five when his dad took him and the rest of his family to a Johnny Cash concert. He said once he was sent the song by the writers – Brad Tursi of Old Dominion, Jennifer Wayne of Runaway June and Eric Paslay – and he asked to rewrite some of the lyrics to reflect his story, it came together really quickly from start to a finished record.

“I got sent the song in early May, and I rewrote the lyrics within a couple of weeks of getting the track without the vocals on it, so I could work on that. And once I got those where I wanted them, I went down into my studio and put down a vocal on the song and then I added guitars and I sort of built out the demo that I got sent,” says Keith. “Everything was done so quick, and then I sent it to my manager to say, ‘Hey, we just did this last week. What do you think about this song?’ And he said, ‘I think we should put that song out.’ I went, ‘When?’ He was like, ‘Now!’ (laughs) He’s like, ‘This just sounds great.’ And we played it for a bunch of different people, and everybody just loved it.”

During this crazy time we’ve all been living for the past nearly two years, Keith feels people have responded to the message of the song. “I think people were responding to the message. It’s a universal want, I think, to have a song motivate us at the times when we need it in our lives. This song was just magical, I think, how quick it was done, how quick it made its way into a finished record to how soon we were releasing it – all very, very fast through for anything I’ve ever done, so I think there’s other powers at work with this song.”

Keith is set to kick off the North American leg of his first world tour in four years, THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR, June 17th in Tampa, Florida. Prior to the summer/fall run in North America, he’ll be across the pond in the spring with dates in the U-K before heading to his Las Vegas residency in May.

Luke Bryan is rested and ready to kick off this year’s Crash My Playa event on Wednesday (January 19^th) in Riviera Cancun, Mexico. This year experienced the fastest sell-out in its seven-year history back in April 2021. The event will feature performers such as Luke, Jason Aldean, Dustin Lynch, Ashley McBryde, Riley Green, Jimmie Allen, LoCash, Jameson Rodgers, Lainey Wilson, Caitlyn Smith, and Whitney Duncan along with DJ Rock complete the lineup of artists. Plus, Kendell Marvel will return with a special late-night performance.

Luke always has a blast at Crash My Playa every year. “Crash My Playa is the most enjoyable things I’ve ever done in my career,” he says. “To get to go mid- to late January down in Mexico, get a good suntan on and go sing your music and just have a big onstage party.”

Crash My Playa 2022 will feature four nights of country music on a private stretch of white sand beach in Riviera Cancún, Mexico as well as daily pool parties, activities and local adventures. The event will be hosted at the spectacular AAA Four Diamond Awarded, Moon Palace Cancún. This oceanfront sanctuary offers magnificent rooms, gourmet all-inclusive food and drink, 24-hour room service as well as plenty of activities on both land and sea, including the luxurious AWE-Spa and a 27-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course.

CID Presents continues to closely monitor relevant recommendations and guidelines imposed by local authorities and The World Health Organization to ensure a safe experience for all guests. For more information regarding Health & Safety plans, please click here. Additionally, Purely Palace protocols will be in place at all times throughout the resort. Purely Palace goes beyond the already stringent quality controls and health measures in place, with the implementation of more than 250 preventive actions to assure guests health and safety, including a Purely Palace health certification in every room on arrival, guaranteeing its complete disinfection.

For more information about Crash My Playa 2022 please visit: www.crashmyplaya.com

Luke is climbing the country charts with his latest single, “Up.”

On this date (January 11th) in 1983, Reba McEntire scored her first No. 1 hit with “Can’t Even Get the Blues,” which was included on her Unlimited album for Polygram/Mercury Records. “It was just something different.  Before that song I was kind of the queen of waltzes,” she says.

The song is also included on her recent three-album box set, Revised, Remixed, Revisited, which was released in October.

Reba is set to hit the road for her REBA: LIVE IN CONCERT tour, kicking off this Thursday (January 13th) in Evansville, Indiana.

Jordan Davis is not only moving up the country charts with his latest single “Buy Dirt” (featuring Luke Bryan), but he and his family are also in the midst of moving into a new house, which just so happens to be right down the street from his brother Jacob Davis, his wife and three girls. With his growing family, which includes wife Kristen, daughter Eloise and now son Locklan, they’re needing a bit more room.

“We’re in the middle of a move now, like basically right down the street from my brother, my nieces and sister-in-law, which I think is gonna be so awesome for the kids,” says Jordan. “They’re already excited about it being so much closer to cousin(s) Eloise and Locklan, and I’m excited to get to see my nieces more. So, to us it’s faith, family and friends and we want to instill that in our kiddos and we want them to know that you take care of those three things first, and then we worry about everything else. And I feel like me and Kristen both are trying to kinda get that ball rolling in the direction where both Eloise and Locklan know how important family is, and I know that my brother and my sister both know that as well, and I’m just excited that we’ll be closer and get to see them more.”

Jordan is on the brink of entering the No. 1 spot on the country charts with “Buy Dirt.”

Award-winning country duo Maddie & Tae give a glimpse at their forthcoming project Through The Madness Vol. 1 with a brand-new song “Strangers,” out today. Penned by Maddie & Tae with Adam Hambrick and Jimmy Robbins, “Strangers” captures the feeling of a fated connection powerful enough to make life before love seem to disappear.

Through The Madness Vol. 1 will release January 28th, and is now available to pre-order and pre-save. Maddie & Tae’s unbreakable bond, honest songwriting and signature harmonies shine through the eight-track collection, which features their latest release “Madness” and recent single “Woman You Got,” plus standout collaborations with Morgane Stapleton (“Don’t Make Her Look Dumb”) and Lori McKenna (“The Other Side”).

The duo co-penned each song on Through The Madness Vol. 1, leading with heart-wide-open vulnerability, exuding familiarity and truth. The project follows their critically acclaimed No. 1 debuting The Way It Feels album.

Through The Madness Vol. 1 Track List:

1. What It’s Like Loving You (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Josh Kerr, Jordan Minton)
   2.  Woman You Got (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Mark Holman, Laura Veltz)
   3.  Don’t Make Her Look Dumb (Feat. Morgane Stapleton) (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Barry Dean, Luke Laird)
   4.  Grown Man Cry (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Eric Arjes, Jordan Minton)
   5.  Madness (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Jessie Jo Dillon, Zach Kale)
   6.  The Other Side (Feat. Lori McKenna) (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Josh Kerr, Lori McKenna)
   7.  Wish You The Best (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Matt Dragstrem, Josh Thompson)*
   8.  Strangers (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Adam Hambrick, Jimmy Robbins)

Produced by Jimmy Robbins & Derek Wells
* = “Wish You The Best” produced by Josh Kerr & Derek Wells

As shared in a recent statement, Maddie & Tae have postponed their headlining CMT Next Women of Country Tour Presents: All Song No Static Tour, with rescheduled dates to be announced soon.

About Maddie & Tae:
Award-winning duo Maddie & Tae channel their unbreakable bond, honest songwriting and “some of the tightest harmonies on Music Row” (Rolling Stone) into their forthcoming collection of songs Through the Madness Vol. 1, out January 28. Together as longtime friends and music collaborators, Maddie Font and Taylor Kerr co-wrote each of the project’s eight tracks, including their latest single, “Woman You Got,” plus recent release “Madness.” The pair drew praise for their No. 1 debuting The Way It Feels album, including the Double Platinum-certified No. 1 hit, “Die From A Broken Heart.” With “Die From A Broken Heart” topping the country airplay charts, Maddie & Tae became the first and only female twosome with multiple No. 1s.

Maddie & Tae first broke out in 2013 with their brilliant counter to bro-country, the Platinum-selling smash, “Girl In A Country Song,” which took Country radio by storm, skyrocketing to the top of the charts and establishing them as only the third female duo in 70 years to top the Country Airplay charts. Recently nominated a seventh time for Vocal Duo of the Year at the 55^th CMA Awards, they have earned trophies from the Radio Disney Music Awards and CMA Awards, along with multiple ACM, Billboard and CMT Award nominations. Maddie & Tae have received widespread praise from Associated Press, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, The Tennessean, The Washington Post, Glamour and others. The celebrated duo has toured with country music’s hottest stars including Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, and Brad Paisley, and recently wrapped The Weekends Tour with Brett Young. They are set to headline the CMT Next Women of Country Tour Presents: All Song No Static Tour in 2022, hitting major markets coast-to-coast. For additional information, visit www.maddieandtae.com.

Sam Hunt appeared on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert with Ingrid Andress to perform their duet, “Wishful Drinking,” on Monday night (January 17th).

Sam Hunt announced a handful of tour dates for this year with tickets going on sale Tuesday (January 18th) beginning at 10am local time. Check out tour dates and more at SamHunt.com. The trek kicks off February 10th in Scottsdale, Arizona, but you can hear himon the airwaves with his latest single, “23.”

Can't wait to hit the road this year, more shows to be announced!
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Presale tickets for the newly announced shows are on sale January 18 at 10am local. Use code TWENTYTHREE for tickets pic.twitter.com/VWyl94iuPb

— Sam Hunt (@SamHuntMusic) January 14, 2022

Little Big Town will perform the National Anthem before Saturday’s Divisional Round game as the Tennessee Titans play host to the Cincinnati Bengals. The game kicks off at 4:30pm ET/3:30pm CT on CBS and Paramount+. Jimmie Allen was just announced as the half-time performer.

Award-winning group @littlebigtown will perform the National Anthem before Saturday's Divisional Round game. 🤩 #CINvsTEN pic.twitter.com/mW9lXjdYSC

— Tennessee Titans (@Titans) January 18, 2022

Jon Langston announced his own All Good Out Here Tour, which kicked off this past weekend.

Back at it this weekend! Y’all get your tickets https://t.co/x5qLajE32l pic.twitter.com/QmEwlqTZJB

— Jon Langston (@JonTLangston) January 13, 2022

Country music superstars and multi-GRAMMY, CMA and ACM Award-winners Little Big Town and Miranda Lambert join forces to co-headline this spring’s The Bandwagon Tour, a reincarnation of 2018’s co-headlining run of the same name which earned rave reviews from Pollstar, CMT, The Tennessean and more.

The joint tour produced by Live Nation, featuring The Cadillac Three as support on all dates, visits 15 cities beginning Friday, May 6th in Houston, Texas. Tickets to The Bandwagon Tour’s opening night in Houston go on sale Friday, January 21st at 10am local time, with all other dates of The Bandwagon Tour on sale Friday, January 14th at 10am local time. Tickets are available at LiveNation.com.

Citi is the official card of The Bandwagon Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning the Tuesday ahead of each on sale date at 12pm local time until Thursday at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

Both critically acclaimed artists in their own right, together Lambert and Little Big Town tout a combined 43 ACM Awards, 23 CMA Awards and seven GRAMMYs. Lambert’s latest single, “If I Was A Cowboy,” is currently climbing the charts at Country radio while her recent collaborative project, The Marfa Tapes, is nominated for a GRAMMY at the upcoming awards ceremony and was named among 2021’s best by American Songwriter, Billboard, LA Times, Rolling Stone, TIME, Vulture and more. Little Big Town is currently back in the studio and will release their 10th studio album later this year. This record follows the No. 1 Country album Nightfall (released in 2020) which includes singles “Over Drinking,” GRAMMY-nominated “The Daughters” and “Wine, Beer, Whiskey.” It was also nominated for the GRAMMY Award for Best Country Album and received rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly and Paste Magazine, among others. Billboard editors describe the band as reaching “substantive emotional richness that few groups can touch” on the album.

On sale details are listed below.

Dates on Sale Beginning This Friday, Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. Local Time:
Wednesday, April 27 *        Tuscaloosa Amphitheater  |  Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Thursday, April 28 *           FirstBank Amphitheater  |  Franklin, Tenn.
Friday, April 29 *#.             William Green Football Stadium  |  Johnson City, Tenn.
Friday, May 6 +                   Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman  |  Houston, Texas
Saturday, May 7                  Dos Equis Pavilion  |  Dallas, Texas
Sunday, May 8                     Walmart AMP  |  Rogers, Ark.
Thursday, May 12                Credit One Stadium  |  Charleston, S.C.
Friday, May 13                     MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre  |  Tampa, Fla.
Saturday, May 14                 iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre  |  West Palm Beach, Fla.
Friday, May 20                     Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre  |  St. Louis, Mo.
Saturday, May 21                 Ruoff Music Center  |  Noblesville, Ind.
Sunday, May 22                   Riverbend Music Center  |  Cincinnati, Ohio
Thursday, June 2                  Budweiser Stage  |  Toronto, Ont.
Friday, June 3                       DTE Energy Music Theatre  |  Detroit, Mich.
Saturday, June 4                   Blossom Music Center  |  Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Thursday, June 9                  Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater  |  Wantagh, N.Y.
Friday, June 10                     PNC Bank Arts Center  |  Holmdel, N.J.
Saturday, June 11                 BB&T Pavilion  |  Camden, N.J.
*   Miranda Lambert & The Cadillac Three only; not part of The Bandwagon Tour
+   on sale Friday, Jan 21. at 10 a.m. local time
#   on sale Friday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. local time

About Little Big Town
GRAMMY, ACM, CMA and AMA Award-winning group Little Big Town – consisting of members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman and Jimi Westbrook – first entered the music scene over 23 years ago, making them one of the longest running bands in the history of country music with all original members, no breaks and no hiatus. They have released nine studio albums throughout their career, four of which reached No. 1 on the Country Albums chart (The Reason Why, Tornado, The Breaker and Nightfall).

The superstar band has four No. 1 singles (“Pontoon,” “Tornado,” “Better Man,” “Day Drinking”) and are also known for their history-making single, “Girl Crush,” as well as “Boondocks,” “Little White Church,” “The Daughters” and latest single “Wine, Beer, Whiskey.”  To date, “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” has reached global streams of over 280 million, putting Little Big Town’s career lifetime streams at over 3.8 billion.

Little Big Town has earned more than 45 award show nominations and has taken home over 20 awards, including four GRAMMYs, nine CMA Awards, eight ACM Awards, an AMA, a People’s Choice Award and an Emmy Award. The band was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2014, received a star on the Nashville Walk of Fame in 2017, and in 2018 was featured at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in a yearlong exhibit entitled Little Big Town: The Power of Four.

The band will open for The Eagles this summer in Europe.

For more information, visit www.LittleBigTown.com.

Priscilla Block has released her brand-new song “My Bar,” a defiantly independent track written by Block, Stone Aielli and Lexie Hayden.

“’My Bar’ is a song we wrote probably two or three years ago, and it’s funny because I’ve always loved this song and when I wrote it, I could kind of hear potentially a guy cutting this song. And I thought it’s kinda cool hearing a girl say ‘This is my bar.’ Like, everyone knows a guy loves a good bar, but why can’t a girl love a good bar, and this song just kind of feels like my anthem.”

Illustrating her firm-footed approach as she embarks on this next chapter of her life, Block’s empowered stance in “My Bar” is a glimpse into the overall feeling of her debut album Welcome To The Block Party – an unapologetic recapturing of one’s own self-worth and unwavering confidence.

Welcome To The Block Party follows last year’s six-song self-titled Priscilla Block EP, the highest-performing country female debut EP of 2021. Bringing a lyrically driven blend of Country-Pop and Southern Rock – a.k.a. the “Block Party” sound – to Nashville’s evolving musical landscape, Welcome To The Block Party features 12 songs, all written by the newcomer, including “Just About Over You,” the Top 15 smash and highest peaking debut single from a female country artist in 2021.

Dierks Bentley enjoyed the snow day on Thursday as Mother Nature dumped 5-7-inches of powdery flakes on Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Not only did he and some buddies ride their bikes on worn paths through the woods, but he and his kids built a snow fort in their front yard (see below and click here on his Instastories). Dierks even enjoyed the snow fort Friday morning (January 7th) while drinking his am java.

Travis Denning went in a different direction: enjoying a frothy cocktail (margarita?) on his deck outside wearing shorts, boots, sleeveless shirt and a cowboy hat.

Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts… pic.twitter.com/ckAq8VfvMw

— Travis Denning (@Travis_Denning) January 6, 2022