Nashville – (August 16, 2013) – Luke Bryan’s album launch week for his fourth studio record Crash My Party just got even better with the news that his second show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena sold-out this morning in less than five minutes. The first show scheduled for October 18 also sold-out in less than five minutes when it went on sale two weeks ago, resulting in the addition of the second concert. The Friday, October 18 show will feature tour mates Florida Georgia Line and Thompson Square and the October 19 show will feature very special guest Dierks Bentley and Cole Swindell.

Kip Moore had cameras following him for a new installment of GAC’s Introducing…series. 

From Hawaii, to South Carolina & New York City, Moore’s personal and nomadic life is documented by his best friend over the course of six months.

Check out a sneak peek below, and then catch the entire special September 1st on GAC-TV at 11:30pm ET. The show will re-air September 2nd at 3:30pm ET; September 4th at 8pm ET; September 5th at 12:00am ET.

Eric Church‘s band held their 2nd Annual Put A Club In My Hand golf tournament August 13th at Nashville’s Gaylord Springs Golf Links. The event, benefiting MusiCares, raised nearly $110,000. MusiCares provides assistance to music people in times of need with services covering financial, medical and personal emergencies. Members of Eric’s band have personally received assistance from MusiCares in the past. 

The tournament attracted 160 golfers, including LPGA Tour players and music industry professionals. The event was made possible through efforts of Eric’s band and was produced by Big Hearted Babes. More than 50 volunteers helped the day of the event and more than 40 sponsors put forth their support, including Eric’s label, EMI Records Nashville, as presenting sponsor.

Luke Bryan has been all over the place promoting his new album, Crash My Party, and it’s certainly showing in his first day sales numbers, which are predicted to nearly triple that of his 2011 album, tailgates & tanlines. He’s truly humbled by the overwhelming response.
AUDIO: Luke Bryan says he’s humbled by the first-week reaction to his new album, Crash My Party. “I’ve never been this excited about an album roll-out, because everybody’s been winking at me and grinning and everybody from my record label and just all across the board,” says Luke. “And then to start hearing first day sales numbers, and it’s truly humbling and it’s just an amazing emotion. I’m running on adrenaline.”

Catch Luke on NBC’s Today Show on Friday (August 16^th). He’s sure to perform his latest smash, “That’s My Kind of Night.”

Luke Bryan (release week) OC: …coming out. :29
“I’ve never been this excited about an album roll-out, because everybody’s been winking at me and grinning and everybody from my record label and just all across the board. And then to start hearing first day sales numbers, and it’s truly humbling and it’s just an amazing emotion. I’m running on adrenaline. I go to lay down and I don’t sleep. I just flip and flop in the bed, excited, and it’s all a good thing. That’s what you want it to be — you want to be this energized about your album coming out.”

Luke Bryan celebrated the release of his new album, Crash My Party, on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday (August 13th), performing “That’s My Kind Of Night” and the title-track.

Luke Bryan has partnered with Target to offer an exclusive deluxe edition of his new album, Crash My Party, which features four additional songs, including “Your Mama Should Have Named You Whiskey.” Luke says the title of the song pretty much tells it like it is. “We all know how rough whiskey can be on you, and I’ll just say this guy is getting burned pretty good by her,” says Luke. “It’s [a] cool, really cool song. I love the style. It’s kind of got that classic verse, and then when the chorus kicks in, it’s just a big ole in your face rock and then drops down to that cool open kind of chilled out dancing cheek-to-cheek thing.”

As part of the partnership with Target, Luke is taking part in the Give With Target Program, which will give $5 million to schools across the country. Beginning Wednesday (August 14^th), people can log onto Facebook.com/Target to vote for their school, once per week. Once a school has received 25 votes, Target will donate $1 per vote, with a maximum donation of $10,000 per school. At the end of the campaign, the school that reaches 10,000 votes first or receives the highest number of votes also will receive a special celebration – which Luke will be attending alongside the rest of the Class of 2013.

Crash My Party, which features Luke’s latest smash “That’s My Kind of Night,” is in stores now!

Luke Bryan (Your Mama-Whiskey) OC: …Target package. :28
“I think that says a lot about it – ‘Your Mama Should Have Named You Whiskey.’ We all know how rough whiskey can be on you, and I’ll just say this guy is getting burned pretty good by her. It’s cool, really cool song. I love the style. It’s kind of got that classic verse, and then when the chorus kicks in, it’s just a big ole in your face rock and then drops down to that cool open kind of chilled out dancing cheek-to-cheek thing. So, I love it from top to bottom. We’re pretty proud to have it on the Target package.

Jon Pardi and the boys head up to the mountains of Northern California for a weekend at Jon’s old stomping grounds at a deer camp in the area. See Jon show the boys what country is like up in California and watch them play a few tunes for the camp!