Archive for July, 2011
Hirings At Quarterback, Gary Musick Productions
Gary Musick Productions announces the addition of Valerie Summers as Vice President of Sales and Customer Relations. Summers, who was previously an agent at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, brings with her 20 years of music industry experience. Valerie and her husband, Kip Summers, are co-owners of Arrington Vineyards where her husband is also the winemaker. […]
Category: Featured, Radio, Sales/Marketing
Worley’s River Run Still Growing in 10th Year
Darryl Worley has recruited Montgomery Gentry and classic rock band Kansas for his Tennessee River Run, set for Sept. 15-17 in Savannah, Tenn. The 10th anniversary event includes a rock concert in downtown Savannah with headliners Kansas and Mike Slaughter, golf tournament, bass tournament, motorcycle ride, boat poker run, crafts fair, 5k, and country concert […]
Borders, Gannett Latest Victims of Digital Media
The shuttering of Borders bookstores has been a long time coming, the latest casualty in the switch to digital media. Yesterday (7/18), the nation’s second-largest bookstore chain, which also sold music, announced plans to begin the liquidation process.
Category: Exclusive, Featured, Financial/Legal, Weekend
Spotify Taps HFA
The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA) has entered into a publishing licensing, administration and management agreement with Spotify, which is in the middle of its US launch following much success overseas. HFA will clear mechanical publishing rights for Spotify, licensing certain rights in millions of musical works. Under the agreement, Spotify will utilize HFA’s end-to-end […]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Publishing
On Location With DJ Miller, Christian Kane
DJ Miller’s debut video “Between Sundays” premiered on Yallwire.com recently, and became the site’s most successful video launch since opening in 2006. It drew a record number of viewers during the first 24-hours it was online. “Between Sundays” is the current single from the 21-year-old Indiana native’s debut album, due out this fall. The video […]
Spins.FM Enables Radio Requests
Country music research, unlike data from some other musical formats continues to return a gaping disconnect between social networking, radio and sales success. Why?
Category: Artist, Exclusive, Featured, Radio, Sales/Marketing, Weekend
ACM News: LeAnn Rimes, Hunter Hayes
LeAnn Rimes and American Idol runner-up Crystal Bowersox are set for a concert to benefit ACM Lifting Lives. Joe’s Bar in Chicago, winner of the ACM Nightclub of the Year Award, will host the Aug. 15 event and underwrite costs so that every ticket purchase will go directly to the work of the philanthropy. ACM […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
Margaret Durante To Guest Blog For Ladies’ Home Journal
It’s not often a music artist unveils a writing style that rivals the professional pen pushers? So get ready to be surprised by Ladies’ home Journal’s latest blogger discovery, 23-year old Margaret Durante and her Nashville Diaries. The rising artist has been asked to do a series of essays as she “experiences the highs and […]
Musical Chairs at Cold River, Tenacity
Cold River Records and Tenacity Records are shuffling radio promotion staffers.
Montgomery Gentry – Where I Come From
Average Joe’s Entertainment is pleased to announce “Where I Come From,” the new country radio single from multi-platinum hitmaking duo Montgomery Gentry. The pair signed with Average Joe’s in March 2011 and are at work on their first album project with the label. “We couldn’t be happier to be signing with the guys at Average […]
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