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Today, MCA Nashville singer/songwriter Clare Dunn releases her brand new single, “More.” Clare, writing the song with Gordie Sampson and Josh Kear, shows us a glimpse of her sentimental side.

“More” is available now HERE and impacts country radio June 4th.

A dynamic new artist on the country music scene who has garnered critical praise as a “masterful guitar player who can do it all” (CMT), Clare joined American rock icon Bob Seger for his 2015 Ride Out Tour where she earned nightly standing ovations. The Colorado native with “swaggering confidence and soulful vocals” (Rolling Stone) also hit the road with country superstar Miranda Lambert on her recent Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour, as well as with country music’s platinum-selling artist Chris Young on the I’m Comin’ Over Tour. Clare, named “One to Watch” by USA Today, Billboard, The Boston Globe and Rolling Stone, wrote all of the songs on her self-titled EP including fan favorites “Move On,” “Tuxedo” and the emotional “Old Hat.”

In addition to her regular tour schedule, Clare has upcoming performances at Nashville’s famed Grand Ole Opry and the CMA Music Festival.

For more information, please visit www.ClareDunn.com.

It’s been slightly more than five years since Kacey Musgraves released her debut album, Same Trailer Different Park (March 19th, 2013). The collection spawned a huge career for the Texas native, resulting in numerous awards (CMA Awards, ACM Awards, Grammys, etc.), as well as fan-favorite tunes – “Merry Go ‘Round,” “Blowin’ Smoke” and “Follow Your Arrow.”

In some ways, Kacey has changed because of her experiences and travels, as well as falling in love and gaining a husband, however, she explains she hasn’t changed too much creatively. “I’ve always known exactly who I am. I’ve had a strong core about myself in what I’m willing to do and not do, and that has not changed and that will never change. All I’ve ever wanted to do for myself is to work towards achieving total musical freedom, and I’m on my way to doing that. I started doing that when I put out Same Trailer and it was exactly me. It was exactly what I wanted to say, and I’m always going to evolve and change and hopefully grow as an artist.”

For her latest collection, Golden Hour, she experimented with new sounds and new collaborators. “With Golden Hour, it was natural for me just to explore new sounds and new inspirations. I worked with different songwriters this time, different producers, and it was super refreshing and exciting for me.”

Kacey is currently exploring Japan (which has been on her bucket list) after playing one of their biggest festivals. You can check out her Instagram for photos and videos of her experience.

When she returns to the States, she is set to perform at the Bayou Country Superfest 2018 in New Orleans May 27th before embarking on a tour with British pop sensation Harry Styles in Dallas on June 5th.

Kip Moore has kicked off the year with an international bang, wrapping the final of two sold-out stints in Canada last night in Winnipeg, CA (5/17), following a stacked last few months that has seen Moore play to unrelenting crowds across the world. Building a global audience from the ground up, the beginning of 2018 has also seen Moore undertake the first of two capacity-house headlining runs in Canada, as well as a highly-anticipated return to Europe. Ahead of his second headlining stint in Canada this week, which saw Moore play to six additional full houses, he also recently wrapped a five-show, sold-out run across Australia to thunderous applause.

Kip  is making his way up the country charts with his latest song, “Last Shot.” The track is the second release from his  third studio album SLOWHEART and follows his fourth No. One hit “More Girls Like You.”

Dierks Bentley kicks off his Mountain High Tour on Friday (May 18th) in Columbia, Maryland with special guests Brothers Osborne and LANCO.

Dierks is looking forward to getting on the road with his opening acts, because he wants to have fun on the road. “I just want this to be fun for me at the end of the day. I’ve got a lot of great stuff going on and I’m gonna spend the whole summer out there,” says Dierks.”It’s not about making money. It’s about my life. I want to have a great summer, have a lot of fun, make a lot of great memories, be totally present from the second we get there on-site, thinking of the fans’ experience when they first pull into a tailgate to when they leave and get home safely. So, it’s really fun, and you want to spend that summer you want to be around, and obviously it’d be nice if it was people that are having success in their career and could help sell tickets and all that. You’re always trying to find that, I say this a lot, someone said this to me early on, where one plus one equals three. You know, where a group of people come together and their sum is greater than their parts.”

The Arizona native is making his way up the country charts with “Woman, Amen” from his upcoming album, The Mountain, available June 8th.

It’s been over a year since Sam Hunt released a song, and this week he dropped “Downtown’s Dead,” the follow-up to the multi-week, five-times platinum “Body Like a Back Road.” It’s also been a year since he married his wife, Hannah, so over the past year or so, Sam’s been busy being a husband, being at home, traveling all over and experiencing the world after his whirlwind rise to the top of the charts and headlining tours. He’s also been busy writing songs following the success of his multi-platinum Montevallo album. He told us he’s probably written 50 or 60 songs, including “Downtown’s Dead,” which he says stood out from the rest of the pack.

“That song…checked all the boxes that I needed to check in a song, and I felt like it was lyrics that are lyrics I felt comfortable saying,” says Sam. “The idea I thought was relatable to people, and it just sounded like a song that people would come out to shows to sing and would inspire people to come out to shows. But ‘Downtown’s Dead,’ it’s hard for me to really say for sure what made that song stand out. I could break it down, I guess theoretically, but I just have those moments where there’s just a gut feeling that says, ‘Okay, this is the song you should put out. This is how you need to say it. This is what you need to say. This is how it should sound,’ and when I get to that point, then I put it out. That song was the one that sort of rose up from the batch that I’ve been working over the past year or two.”

Sam is nominated in five categories at Sunday night’s (May 20th) Billboard Music Awards, including Top Selling Song for “Body Like a Back Road,” as well as Top Country Song, Top Country Artist, Chart Achievement and Top Country Male Artist. Tune in to NBC on Sunday beginning at 8pm ET.

Sam will hit the road with Luke Bryan on the What Makes You Country XL Tour, which will hit stadiums beginning May 31st in Toronto Ontario. He has one date prior to the tour – he’s performing at the Indianapolis 500 next weekend.

Brothers Osborne will perform “Weed, Whiskey And Willie” on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers May 21st. John and TJ Osborne co-wrote the track with Laura Veltz, and it has quickly become a favorite among critics and audiences alike with Rolling Stone praising the “string-snapping minimalism that builds gradually into a fluttering jam.”

“Weed, Whiskey And Willie” is featured on the duo’s critically-acclaimed sophomore album Port Saint Joe which has been hailed as “soulful, classic-rocking” by NPR and “absolutely superb” by the BBC. The GRAMMY-nominated duo continues to make headway overseas as they just wrapped their first headlining UK tour with every show sold out but one. The Birmingham Mail gave Brothers Osborne 5/5 stars and noted, “they rock on big guitar riffs…bridging country tradition and contemporary rock sensibilities.” Rock ‘N’ Load Magazine in Belfast, Ireland admired the “rollercoaster set of up-tempo and emotive numbers that draw the audience in one by one.” The Maryland natives are set to return to the UK this November.

The singer/songwriter siblings recently took home two trophies at the 53^rd Annual ACM Awards and maintained their reign as Vocal Duo of the Year in addition to winning Video of the Year for their rowdy Top 10 hit “It Ain’t My Fault.”

Brothers Osborne will next join Dierks Bentley on the “Mountain High Tour” kicking off May 18th in Columbia, MD. Tickets and additional information can be found at www.brothersosborne.com

For a full list of tour dates, news, images and more, visit: www.BrothersOsborne.com

Luke Bryan is set to perform during the season finale of ABC’s American Idol. He’s not the only one. The other two judges – Lionel Richie and Katy Perry – will perform, as well during the two-night finale beginning Sunday (May 20th).

Monday is the #AmericanIdol finale and I’ll be performing. I promise you don’t want to miss this one. Special guest maybe? pic.twitter.com/4n5wh6vKr4

— Luke Bryan (@lukebryan) May 16, 2018

Darius Rucker, as well as Nick Jonas and Mustard, Patti LaBelle, Yolanda Adams, Bebe Rexha, Gary Clark Jr. and Kermit the Front will also appear.

Y’all know this is going to be a good time!! Tune in to @AmericanIdol on Monday, 5/21 to see who I’ll be performing with. @ABCNetwork// 9p EST #AmericanIdol pic.twitter.com/6vXWBKHiHs

— Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) May 16, 2018

All three judges will return to the show next season.

Sam Hunt releases his brand new single, “Downtown’s Dead,” today. Dropping hints on his socials all day Tuesday, Hunt’s new song, co-written by Hunt with Zach Crowell, Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally and Charlie Handsome, is now available HERE and it is making its world premiere today with iHeart country radio.

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“Downtown’s Dead” is the first new single from the critically-acclaimed, GRAMMY-nominated superstar since last year’s record-breaking, 5x Platinum-selling smash, “Body Like A Back Road.” At 34 weeks, Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” set the record for the most weeks at No. 1 in the six-decade history of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and earned Hunt the 2017 Academy of Country Music Award for “Single Record of the Year.” Hunt will also receive the ACM Gene Weed Milestone Award at the ACM Honors ceremony this summer in recognition of this unprecedented achievement. Additionally, “Body Like A Back Road” was the No. 1 most-streamed and the No. 1 most-downloaded country song of 2017, received CMT’s inaugural Song of the Year Award for 2017, and it is nominated for two Billboard Music Awards – Top Selling Song and Top Country Song. Hunt is also nominated for the Billboard Chart Achievement Award, Top Country Artist and Top Country Male Artist at this weekend’s celebration. Fans can vote for Hunt’s Chart Achievement nomination HERE and tune in to the 2018 Billboard Music Awards live on Sunday, May 20 at 8pm ET on NBC.

Hunt hits the road this month as a special guest on Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country Tour – XL Stadium Sized along with country star Jon Pardi and opening artists Morgan Wallen (May-Aug) and Carly Pearce (Sep-Oct). Kicking off May 31 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, ONT., Hunt, Bryan and Pardi will hit 13 of North America’s biggest and best sports stadiums including MetLife Stadium (NYC), Great American Ball Park (Cincinnati), Raymond James Stadium (Tampa), Heinz Field (Pittsburgh), Fenway Park (Boston), Target Field (Minneapolis), Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles), Sports Authority Field at Mile High (Denver), Busch Stadium (St. Louis), Wrigley Field (Chicago), BC Place Stadium (Vancouver) and Ford Field (Detroit).

For more information on music, tour dates and tickets, please visit www.SamHunt.com.

For an intro liner for “Downtown’s Dead,” click here.

Kacey Musgraves is set to perform on The Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS) on Thursday (May 17th).

George Strait is scheduled to close out the 2019 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on March 17th, 2019. His appearance at the Rodeo will mark his 30th career performance. The remaining line-up will be unveiled in January.

After four consecutive sold-out years, Platinum selling Superstar and American Idol judge Luke Bryan, along with CID Presents, announces Crash My Playa – 5^th Year Fiesta destination event taking place January 23-26, 2019 in Riviera Maya, Mexico. The Caribbean beach vacation will be the biggest event yet and will feature Luke headlining two of the four nightly concerts with one of those deemed as “Luke & Friends Set.” Additional performers to be announced soon.

“Nothing better than a beach vacation mixed with some country music to launch a new year,” shared Luke. “It’s an amazing get-away trip for the fans and all the artists performing.”

Packages on sale Wednesday, May 23 at 1pm ET at www.crashmyplaya.com. Members of Luke’s fan club, Luke’s fan app and previous Crash My Playa guests will have access to pre-sale packages on Monday, May 21 at 1PM ET.

Citi® is the official presale credit card of the Crash My Playa – 5th Year Fiesta. As such, Citi® cardmembers will have access to purchase all-inclusive packages during the Citi presale Monday, May 21 at 1PM ET – Wednesday, May 23 at 1PM ET. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

“When we first approached Luke and his team about Crash My Playa it was just a concept,” said Dan Berkowitz of CID Presents. “Now, as we head into our fifth year, it has grown into something beyond our wildest dreams. Each year is better than the last, and with this being our 5^th anniversary, we’re excited to celebrate with the incredible community of fans, artists, and the people behind the scenes who make this event so special.”

Fans can stay at the event’s host resort, the Barceló Maya, or opt for one of several carefully selected tropical resorts and enjoy royal treatment all weekend long – all-inclusive food and drink, 24-hour concierge service, daily onsite activities, offsite adventures like visiting Chichen Itza, zip-lining, and ATV tours, excursions including day trips to Tulum, official Crash My Playa – 5^th Year Fiesta merchandise packages, and more. To see highlights from last year’s event go HERE.

For more information about Crash My Playa – 5^th Year Fiesta 2019, how to book four or five night all-inclusive packages and payment plan details, please visit: www.crashmyplaya.com.