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Shania Twain will appear on The Big Interview with Dan Rather on Tuesday (March 3rd) to talk about her career, her new album NOW and much more. The show will air at 9pm ET on AXS-TV.

Jordan Davis will perform Wednesday (March 4th) on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

Dierks Bentley is scheduled to perform at WE Day, an assembly of people to celebrate positive changes and continue to motivate youth to continue to inspire throughout the year. Dierks will be joined by The Chainsmokers, Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez, Paula Abdul, Nicole Richie and more at the event taking place at The Forum in Los Angeles on April 19th.

Kip Moore wrapped a seven-show sold-out stint across Canada this past weekend with a two-night run in London, ON, as part of the second leg of his headlining PLEAD THE FIFTH TOUR.  The thrilling run comes hot on the heels of a successful return across the pond as part of C2C Festival, where Moore was met with rave reviews, declaring “from the huge cheers he got when he walked on stage, it was clear most of the crowd was here for Kip Moore, and he didn’t disappoint.” (Entertainment Focus) Moore then headed over to Canada, where the critical reception continued to praise his entertaining and emotional performances.

“Kip Moore is without a doubt a headliner. From the moment Kip ran on stage to the moment he ran off, the O2 Arena were in full force, all standing, dancing, rocking, cheering.” – Building Our Own Nashville

“Glasses were raised for the sub-Springsteen rock of Kip Moore.” – Evening Standard

“Another fun-filled, high-energy concert rockin’ and jammin’ at the Machine Shop.” – Sault Online

“When Kip walks out onto the stage you just can’t help but get caught up in the energy of it.” – Sound Check Entertainment

“As the country music fans filed into the venue the volume of the crowd increased. And by the end of the night… it was past impressive and into memorable territory.” – The Reviews Are In

Kip Moore recently released the “equal parts powerful, heartwarming and tear-jerking” (Entertainment Tonight) new music video for his new single “Last Shot.” The track is the second taken from his revered third studio album SLOWHEART and follows his fourth No. One hit “More Girls Like You.” “SLOWHEART,” is continuing to garner praise by critics across the country as Moore “blends the passion and connection for which he’s known with a new self-awareness that will speak to both commercial and underground audiences” (USA Today) as well as wrapping 2017 on multiple “Best Of” lists including Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, UpRoxx, Bobby Bones Show, Taste Of Country, Sounds Like Nashville, The Boot, PopMatters and Whiskey Riff. SLOWHEART follows the acclaim that surrounded Moore’s sophomore album WILD ONES heralded as “an impressively singular release from Music Row” by The Guardian and his PLATINUM debut album UP ALL NIGHT that spawned three No. One hit singles.  A unrelenting road warrior, Moore will continue his headlining PLEAD THE FIFTH with dates kicking off in Australia on 4/20, and will continue with shows across the US and Canada beginning 5/10. For more information, visit kipmoore.net.

Little Big Town recorded an amazing version of “Rocket Man,” written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The song is featured on Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, which will be available this Friday (April 6th). The song first appeared on Elton’s 1972 album Honky Château.

We’ve included both a full five-minute vignette and a :90 second vignette of Little Big Town’s “Rocket Man” for your use.

Luke Bryan’s “Most People Are Good” remains at the top of the country charts for a second week in a row. Last week, he scored his 20th No. 1 with the song, which is his second chart-topper from his latest album, What Makes You Country.

“I think that ‘Most People Are Good’ might be one of the best songs I’ve ever recorded,” shared Luke. “I think it’s a song that truly helps people believe in people again. We seem to get reminded every day of all the negativity of what humans are, and truly it’s only .001 percent of people causing all the negativity. I mean, I truly believe that.  This song preaches the innocence of children, the beauty of mothers, the beauty of relationships, the beauty of what life truly could be and should be and really is. I think that most people lay their heads down at night and try to be better and try to be good to other people. And this song captures those emotions perfectly.”

“Most People Are Good,” was written by David Frasier, Ed Hill and Josh Kear, landed on Billboard’s 2017 Reader’s List claiming it “is a veer in the road (for Luke): an inspiring, positive-message song with a heartfelt vocal. At a time when the world is not such a positive place it’s, well, just in time.”

Luke is nominated for ACM Entertainer of the Year, an award he’s taken home twice. The 53rd Annual ACM Awards will broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas April 15th at 8pm ET on CBS.

Kacey Musgraves’ highly anticipated fourth album Golden Hour is available now via MCA Nashville. Co-produced and co-written by Kacey with Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, the album is Kacey’s most intimate to date, featuring previously released hits “Butterflies,” “Space Cowboy” and “High Horse” (see full track list below). Golden Hour is available now for purchase here: http://strm.to/GoldenHour

Golden Hour has been critically lauded by everyone from NPR, TIME, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and The Huffington Post to Consequence of Sound, Noisey, Vulture, SPIN and Pitchfork, among others. USA Today declares “”Golden Hour may be 2018’s best album yet,” and Stereogum hails Golden Hour as their “album of the week,” stating “It’s her best release yet, one that gracefully transcends country while exploring musical pastures as wide-open as the plains of her native Texas.” The Huffington Post pronounces Golden Hour “the work of a self-assured artist breaking the mold instead of the younger version telling us that one day she would” and TIME proclaims “Musgraves’ superpower is the ability to reach audiences across boundaries. She may not be country’s biggest star, but she’s still one of its worthiest” (see additional press quotes below).

Kacey celebrated Golden Hour’s release with performances of “Slow Burn” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night and “Butterflies” this morning on TODAY, and she is set to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 4^th. Kacey is currently on tour with Little Big Town and will be playing Stagecoach Festival April 28^th. This summer, she’ll join Harry Styles on his U.S. tour before embarking on her headlining Oh, What A World: Tour. For full list of dates, visit http://www.kaceymusgraves.com/tour.

Golden Hour Tracklist:

1. Slow Burn
2. Lonely Weekend
3. Butterflies
4. Oh, What a World
5. Mother
6. Love Is a Wild Thing
7. Space Cowboy
8. Happy & Sad
9. Velvet Elvis
10. Wonder Woman
11. High Horse
12. Golden Hour
13. Rainbow

“Golden Hour may be 2018’s best album yet” – USA Today

“After several years of making space for herself in her genre and the broader musical landscape, Musgraves is nervy enough to let her guard down and embrace her complexity, and that’s given her listeners more to grab a hold of than ever.” – NPR

“For Musgraves, who established herself as a more acoustic-based, traditional-country force on 2013’s Grammy-winning Same Trailer Different Park, it’s a record that boldly goes where she hasn’t before. After two albums that leaned heavily on country sing-alongs with clever, often cute turns-of-phrase, the 29-year-old takes a more mature and sonically diverse approach on Golden Hour.” – Rolling Stone

“’Golden Hour’ may be a bit weird, and a bit surprising, by country’s traditional standards. But it’s relaxed, authentic and at home with itself. There’s nothing more country than that.” –The Huffington Post

“Musgraves’ superpower is the ability to reach audiences across boundaries. She may not be country’s biggest star, but she’s still one of its worthiest.” – TIME

“This technicolor fantasyland that Kacey has built with Golden Hour is her most creatively daring work yet, in which she embraced new sounds, genres, and collaborators.” – The FADER

“Musgraves hits one high note after another on Golden Hour; her talent as a songwriter and melody-maker is second to none, and each song is thoughtful, well-formed, and a delightful experience on its own. Together, the tracks on Golden Hour add up to an honest, cohesive musical experience that will linger in your mind and heart long after the final notes have faded.” – Consequence of Sound

 “…it’s clear that the Texan is still the most talented songwriter in mainstream pop-country.” – Noisey

“It is an extremely well-produced and richly textured record that the singer describes as “galactic country,” and, indeed, its expansiveness recalls the wonder of staring up at the kind of starry night sky that seems to envelop you. Where Musgraves’s career to this point has been defined by her sound, Golden Hour is an album of sounds, of silken reverb and misty harmonizing, rippling guitar lines and bubbly bass, of vocoders and drums that evoke the soothing pitter-patter of a lazy rainy day. At times it recalls the aquatic haze of Madonna’s Ray of Light, and at others the open-highway rumbling of the War on Drugs. It very well may be her best.” – SPIN

Lady Antebellum‘s Charles Kelley invited Jake Owen to join him for the new episode of “The Hook.” Charles invites celebrity friends to join him and brother John for a little friendly competition at Top Golf and check out who wins the battle of the golfers.

Alan Jackson, Little Big Town and Jon Pardi have been added to the list of performers for this year’s ACM Awards. They’re joined by Kelly Clarkson and Kane Brown, as well as previously announced performers Lauren Alaina, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, Kelsea Ballerini, Kenny Chesney, Florida Georgia Line, Midland, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Bebe Rexha, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton and Brett Young.

Cam, Dustin Lynch, Kiefer Sutherland, Sam Elliott, Ashton Kutcher, David Boreanaz, AJ Buckley and Max Thieriot and The Talk‘s Eve have been added as presenters

The 53rd ACM Awards will broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas April 15th at 8pm ET/PT on CBS.

Little Big Town will be honored at the 2018 GRAMMYS on the Hill Awards on April 18th in Washington, D.C. The GRAMMY-winning group, who are scheduled to perform, join past honorees Keith Urban, Alicia Keys and John Mayer. The group have made several contributions to the music industry including advocating for music education and supporting MusiCares, which provides a safety net of support for the music community.

GRAMMYs on the Hill also recognizes legislators who have improved the environment for music by advocating for music creators’ rights. The 2018 congressional honorees include Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), founder and co-chair of the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus, and Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), author of the Music Modernization Act and vice chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet.

“Little Big Town’s advocacy efforts, coupled with the legislative momentum on Capitol Hill to protect creators, further the Academy’s vision of a brighter future for music — something the Recording Academy has been championing since its inception, and made an even greater commitment to when it established its D.C. offices in 1998,” said Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow

“We’re honored to stand alongside the Academy and Reps. Chu and Collins in speaking out and protecting an industry that has done so much for us,” said LBT’s Phillip Sweet.

“Music is healing and powerful, and music education gives our children an outlet for expression that is absolutely necessary for their overall growth and well-being,” continued the band’s Karen Fairchild. “We will continue to do our part to protect music education, songwriters, recordings, and the artists who bring them to life.”

The group, who is currently on The Breakers Tour with their next stop April 5th in Minneapolis, sing “Rocket Man” on the new tribute album, Restoration, featuring the songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The collection, which also features performances by Chris Stapleton, Dierks Bentley, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, Maren Morris and many others, will be released April 6th.

Kacey Musgraves releases her new album, Golden Hour, this Friday (March 30th). The album includes a note to people who purchase the record, which she says represents “the whole picture” of her.

“I thought it would be kind of cool to include a little bit of a note or a foreword to anybody that opens the album,” says Kacey. “And it’s just a statement as to where I am, where the music is and why it’s here and what I kind of am sensing that humanity is kind of craving right now.”

The note says, “There we were in the middle of making this record and a total solar eclipse darkened Nashville on my birthday, my 29th year, a golden hour in my young adult life. There are certain junctures that you can’t just think your way through, you just have to feel. I found myself at one making this album. It was like the universe was majestically saying, ‘This is a time to be present to witness the beauty of this incredible world that you’re lucky to be alive in despite it being more complicated than ever and filled with so much darkness.’ We all need a little bit of light right now. We all need for compassion and art to flourish; things we rely on turn out to be fake and hurtful; people we look up to turn out to be just as jaded and messed up as everybody else and yet somehow new love finds its way up through the cracks in the sidewalk. The sun still rises and the birds still sing, inspiration still finds its way to you again. There are different masks that we all wear that represent different sides of ourselves. None of them are solely us, and yet they all are. There’s the lonely girl, the blissful girl, the new wife, the daughter missing her mother, the hopeful girl, the selfish girl, the sarcastic rhinestone Texan, the shy girl and the life of the party, the winner, the loser – they’re all characters on this record. None of them alone are me, and yet they all are. The Golden Hour is when all the masks come together as one and you can see in perfect light the whole picture of me.”

https://twitter.com/KaceyMusgraves/status/979126337028968448

Kacey co-produced the album with a pair of friends, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, with whom she also co-wrote several tracks on the new project.

The Texas native will perform on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday (March 29th) on CBS.

She’s currently on the road with Little Big Town on The Breakers Tour. The next stop on the trek will be April 5th in Minneapolis.

Golden Hour Track List:

1. Slow Burn
2. Lonely Weekend
3. Butterflies
4. Oh, What A World
5. Mother
6. Love Is A Wild Thing
7. Space Cowboy
8. Happy & Sad
9. Velvet Elvis
10. Wonder Woman
11. High Horse
12. Golden Hour
13. Rainbow

Kacey Musgraves releases her new album, Golden Hour, this Friday (March 30^th), and she felt there were many positive powers shining a light on her recording, and she came up with the title of the collection following last year’s total solar eclipse.

“There were several serendipitous moments that really come to mind during the making of this whole record. One of the biggest ones was literally a cosmic event. It was literally on August 21st, which is my birthday, and there we were in the very middle of making this album and the total solar eclipse happened in Nashville, and it darkened all of Nashville. It just felt like this cosmic event that everyone was paying attention to, it kind of stopped time and cast a really beautiful light on Nashville itself on my birthday, my 29th year, which is kind of the golden hour of my young adult life and it just felt very special.”

Kacey co-produced the album with a pair of friends, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, with whom she also co-wrote several tracks on the new project.

The Texas native will perform on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday (March 29th) on CBS.

She’s currently on the road with Little Big Town on The Breakers Tour. The next stop on the trek will be April 5th in Minneapolis.

Golden Hour Track List:

1. Slow Burn
2. Lonely Weekend
3. Butterflies
4. Oh, What A World
5. Mother
6. Love Is A Wild Thing
7. Space Cowboy
8. Happy & Sad
9. Velvet Elvis
10. Wonder Woman
11. High Horse
12. Golden Hour
13. Rainbow