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Nashville indie duo The Harmaleighs (Haley Grant and Kaylee Jasperson) formally announce the end of “The Harmaleighs” and launch new project LOUISE fronted by Haley Grant. LOUISE is set to drop their debut record TV DATING SHOW accompanied by a 5 episode reality dating show suspiciously titled ‘TV DATING SHOW’ written by Haley Grant. Each episode contains the visual and story representation of the song it is premiering. Trailer and first episode set to drop fall of 2024. LOUISE is represented by New Frontier Touring. TV DATING SHOW is produced by Kyle Ryan (Natalie Prass, Liza Anne, Becca Mancari), mixed by Dan Molad of Lucius, and mastered by Philip Shaw Bova (Andy Shauf, Bahamas, Angel Olsen). In this debut record, audiences are welcomed into the wild world of Louise’s dating life. The opening song “The Me Song” sets the 70’s meets reality tv scene perfectly for the journey that the listener is about to go on. Will Louise find true love? Or will she f**k everything… UP. Tune in, anywhere, at anytime… welcome to TV DATING SHOW.

Today, The Avett Brothers have announced their plans to ring in the New Year. The folk-rock ensemble will return to their home state on Dec. 31, 2023, to welcome 2024 at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C. The band will welcome a special guest, Marcus King, during the celebratory stand. The main act has long been associated with their New Year’s Eve entertainment. The impending stand will serve as the group’s 20th time counting down till midnight on Dec. 31. Moreover, the show, slated to happen at PNC Arena, marks the third time The Avett Brothers have celebrated New Year’s Eve at that venue. Before closing out the year in the Old North State, The Avett Brothers will embark on a series of fall tour dates, including participation in festival bills, such as Bourbon & Beyond, BeachLife Ranch, and Willie Nelson’s traveling Outlaw Music Festival. Meanwhile, King will spend much of the fall traveling the Southern region of the U.S. and performing with special guest Joshua Ray Walker. Various new and exclusive VIP experiences and travel packages will be available. The Avett Guild fan club presale (click here to sign up) begins Wednesday, Sept. 6 at noon E.T. Public on-sale starts Friday, Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. E.T. For more information, visit theavettbrothers.com.

The Last Revel's fifth studio album, Dovetail, is out today, available on all streaming platforms with Vinyl and CDs available for purchase on their website. "We made this record over 5 days at the same family cabin in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where we recorded our albums Uprooted and Hazard & Fate. This place has played such a major roll in the bands DNA it only felt appropriate to go back to where we learned to make records together. We couldn’t be more grateful for dear friend Kevin Israel and his sweet dog June for engineering and mixing the project" the band shared, "and we couldn’t be more excited to share this new music with you all."

The Great Divide have hit #1 on the two biggest Texas Country Music Charts in the same week. The band's single, "Infinite Line," from their most recent album, Providence, is #1 on both the CDX Traction Red Dirt Chart and the Texas Country Music Association Chart. In addition, the band is also up for several Texas Country Music Association awards this year including: Country Band of the Year, Country Single of the Year, Guitarist of the Year (Mike McClure), and others! Listen to the #1 song here!

"Recommend Me," the third single from Steep Canyon Rangers upcoming album, Morning Shift, is out today. Listen to the song and watch the new video above. Morning Shift will be released on September 8, 2023.

Don't forget today is Carlene Carter Day! MAYORAL PROCLAMATION: WHEREAS, Carlene Carter was born on September 26, 1955 in Nashville, Tennessee to her mother June Carter and her father Carl Smith and a grandmother deeply rooted in country music history, Maybelle Carter, part of country music's founding family, the Carter Family who had only 28 years earlier participated in the 1927 Bristol Session recordings; and WHEREAS, time moved forward and she became big sister to Rozanna Lea Nix (Rosie) from her mother's marriage to Edwin Lee Nix; later she became part of the Johnny Cash family when her mother married Cash in 1969 and Cash became her step-father, she found herself step-sister to Roseanne Cash and later step-sister to John Carter Cash, son of June and Johnny; and WHEREAS, Carter realized her musical talents early-on at age six when she began to play the piano and at age ten began playing the guitar and as a part of such musically blessed families she grew up always singing along with famous kin; and WHEREAS, when Carlene Carter sings about her family, one can hear the love and respect in her voice, as she seems to be in awe of them as much as any of us. She has allowed the legacy of her celebrated family to strengthen her music of which can be witnessed in her voice and songs today; and WHEREAS, in 1977 at the tender age of 22 she released her self-titled debut album and became known as an acclaimed singer-songwriter; Carlene Carter added actress to that list in 2005 when she and her cousin appeared in a Nashville musical "Wildwood Flowers". The show was about the lives and careers of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, Carlene played her mother June; and WHEREAS, Carlene Carter continues to carry the legacy of her family today and has never forgotten her roots that are steeped in these mountains of her grandparents; and WHEREAS, just as she closed the show "Wildwood Flowers" with the song lyrics of the ever popular Christian hymn, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"; There are loved ones in the glory, whose dear forms you often miss, when you close your earthly story, will you join them in their bliss. Will the circle be unbroken by and by, by and by...; and WHEREAS, Carlene Carter continues to keep the voice of country music born of the mountains of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, alive and thriving for generations to come, and insuring the circle will go unbroken. It is appropriate that with the opening of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, we recognize her gift of continuing the legacy and carrying it forward so that the "big bang" of our music, country music, continues to be heard around the world; and NOW, THERFORE, I, LEA POWERS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL TENNESSEE AND I, CATHERINE D. BRILLHART, MAYOR OF CITY OF BRISTOL VIRGINIA DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THAT AUGUST 3, 2014 DESIGNATED: CARLENE CARTER DAY In the city of Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, and I ask all citizens to join me in this observation.

[Music Ally] Secondary ticketing is currently under intense scrutiny in the US, with politicians taking a long, hard and often contradictory look at how the ticketing market works. The latest organisation providing some data to fuel those debates is NITO, the National Independent Talent Organization, whose membership comprises independent music managers and booking agencies. It has studied tickets sold and resold for 65 shows by those members in venues ranging in capacity from 1,500 to 20,000, to see what patterns it could spot. Among the claims: the average face value ticket price was $67.47, but the average resale price was $129.22. NITO also says that resellers collectively generated an average gross profit per show of $41k, based on selling an average of 543 tickets. The study also suggested that some concertgoers were paying the higher prices for secondary tickets even though primary face-value tickets were still available. Why? NITO said that confusion when secondary resellers ranked higher than primary sources in search results was one reason, while fans paying for secondary tickets because the seats were better than those still available on the primary market was another. “While many consumer and ‘fan first’ groups claim that the resale market benefits consumers, NITO’s data shows otherwise,” claimed the organisation. “Fan-to-fan face-value ticket exchanges clearly work and allow fans to buy tickets at the price the artist intended. But too often, State laws limit their effectiveness, preventing fans across the country from benefiting equally.” “Most tickets sold on the secondary market are sold by predatory ticketing professionals with access to technology that often assures that they can buy the best tickets before fans. The secondary ticket sites use their excessive profits to push their ticket listings to the top of search results, confusing fans and stifling official ticket sales.” These conclusions should not come as a surprise, as NITO is part of the wider music-industry Fix The Tix coalition, which recently unveiled its proposals for reform of the ticketing industry. Needless to say, the secondary ticketing firms will have different views on all this: American politicians will be responsible for navigating their way through the competing opinions to decide what, if any, new legislation is the best way to improve the market. [https://musically.com/2023/07/11/nito-study-slams-predatory-ticket-resellers-in-the-us/]

[IVPR] Steep Canyon Rangers Welcome Latest Member Aaron Burdett With A Fitting New Single, “Deep End” Latest single from upcoming Darrell Scott-produced album, Morning Shift—out September 8th; Next show July 13th at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival; Shows with Steve Martin & Martin Short begin September 14 July 11, 2023 - Asheville, NC - “I’m the guy that jumps in the deep end / Find out quick if I’m sinking or swimming,” sings the Steep Canyon Rangers’ newest member Aaron Burdett on their new single “Deep End.” The song, a toe-tapping romp featuring the Rangers’ signature bluegrass-forward sound, sounds like a good-time ode to being carefree, but its origins come from a very specific, real place. “There were only three weeks between my very first conversation with [Rangers bassist] Barrett [Smith] about auditioning to sing with the Rangers and my finding myself in California on stage at the Hollywood Bowl,” remembers Burdett. “I was there with all the Rangers and Steve Martin and Martin Short, with the LA Philharmonic backing us up as I sang a bluegrass song in front of about 18,000 people. It was quite an initiation.” After their first three shows with Burdett over July 4th weekend, the band went to a cookout at one of the musician’s houses on Sunday afternoon. “I walked up and knocked on the door and when his wife answered the door I said ‘Hello, I'm Aaron. I'm here for the cookout.’ And she said ‘Oh, you're the guy who jumps in the deep end!’” Burdett started thinking about the song right then and there. “Deep End” is the latest single from Steep Canyon Rangers’ upcoming album, Morning Shift—due out September 8th on Yep Roc Records. Produced by the distinguished Darrell Scott and engineered by the legendary Dave Sinko, Morning Shift found the Rangers recording their 14th studio album in Bat Cave, North Carolina, at the Inn Bat Cave, a historical refuge settled near a long-forgotten crossroads of Southern Appalachia. This was the perfect space to feel confident in expanding upon that Carolina sound, the perfect runway to let their well-oiled machine do what it does best- craft stories from the ground up, as a unit. “It was like going to recording camp,” said Scott, “We ate together, we stayed at the Inn together the whole time, and we recorded. Going about it that way made for a very organic record. We had a great engineer with Dave Sinko, who could in essence create a studio space in a rustic, historic home.” Morning Shift also marks the band’s first album with new band member Burdett on guitar and vocals, bringing a soul-stirring element to the Rangers’ mastery of mountain music. Burdett is an award-winning singer-songwriter and a student of folk tradition providing a fresh, emotional context to the Rangers’ songbook. Fans can check out the premiere on Garden & Gun here, watch the “Deep End” music video today at this link, check out the Rangers’ previously-released single “Hominy Valley” here, and pre-order or pre-save Morning Shift ahead of its September 8th release right here. Steep Canyon Rangers are on tour throughout the summer with a string of dates with longtime collaborators Steve Martin & Martin Short beginning in September.

The Pink stones new album, You Know Who, is out now via New West Records. The band's sophomore album features Nikki Lane, Teddy and the Rough Riders, John James Tourville of the Deslondes, and Annie Leeth. “This record was me trying to take everything I love as a listener and a player and shove it all into one thing without it sounding random,” says Hunter Pinkston, former punk turned cosmic country auteur, describing You Know Who, the boisterous, ambitious sophomore album by his band The Pink Stones. Ostensibly they play country music, yet all the pedal steel sobs, the two-steppin’ rhythms, twangy harmonies, and lyrics about broken hearts and long days on the road are launchpads for wild experiments and unexpected stylistic forays. “There’s obviously a lot of country and rock in our music, but there’s a lot of gospel and soul and psych and dub. I really wanted to get all of those things living peacefully together in one record. Listen to the album here. Purchase the album here.

"Maggie Moore(s)," a new crime comedy directed by John Slattery was scored by cellist and songwriter, Ben Sollee. The movie will be released in theatres September 16, 2023.

Watch The Pink Stones new music video for their single, "Baby, I'm Still Right Here (With You)," featuring Nikki Lane. [Brooklyn Vegan] Athens, GA's The Pink Stones are back with a new album, You Know Who, which will be out June 30 via Normaltown / New West. The album was co-produced by frontman Hunter Pinkston and Henry Barbe, and features guest appearances from Nikki Lane, Teddy and the Rough Riders, John James Tourville of The Deslondes, and Annie Leeth. “This record was me trying to take everything I love as a listener and a player and shove it all into one thing without it sounding random," says Pinkston. We're premiering "Baby, I’m Still Right Here (With You)," which is a duet with Nikki Lane in the tradition of George & Tammy, Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton, and Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn. “‘Baby, I’m Still Right Here (With You)’ was me trying to show the influence George and Tammy have had on me," says Pinkston. "I figured my friend Nikki would be the perfect Honky Tonk Queen to sing it with me. John Neff plays an excellent Dobro vs. Pedal Steel solo and the phasers are full blast. Listen to "Baby, I'm Still Right Here (With You)," and two other singles from the upcoming album here.

Rodney Crowell’s latest album, Chicago Sessions, is once again holding down the #1 spot on the Americana Charts this week. Band of Heathens, after 6 weeks at number one and two weeks at number two are in the number 3 position, a solid testament to the popularity of their latest offering as well!