OTHER NEWS:
iTunes Crowd Continues To Swell
NPD’s latest research reports one in four U.S. Internet users now use iTunes—almost 51 million people—and an increase of 3% since last year. Music remains the primary activity of iTunes users, although app downloads is also seeing growth. 54% of iTunes users downloaded or listened to music this year and 28% downloaded a free app […]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Weekend
Walk The West, Cactus Brothers Leader Dies At Age 48
Paul Kirby, who co-founded the Nashville rock band Walk the West and also led the country-rocking Cactus Brothers, has died of cardiac arrest at age 48.
Industry Toasts Moore’s No. 1 “If Heaven…”
BMI and ASCAP teamed up at CMA headquarters to honor the songwriting team behind Justin Moore’s No. 1 “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away.”
Category: Artist, Featured, Publishing
Bluegrass Blooms In Downtown Nashville
The IBMA World of Bluegrass is this week and MusicRow critic Robert K. Oermann picks the best showcases and events.
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
Armiger Launches Deluxe Package With Opry Performance
Katie Armiger finally got to stand in country music’s inner circle […]
Promoting #Hashtag Happiness
Twitter is becoming a favored source for entertainment industry news and promotion, however the volume of tweets is reaching tsunami proportions. One way to fine tune the tweet-flow, is by using hashtags, a word preceded by the poundsign, i.e. #mynews. Hypebot.com recently wrote about some of the favorite tags its readers are using to parse […]
Category: Featured
Honky Tonk TV Acquired
Weekly country music news and entertainment television show Honky Tonk TV has been acquired by Phoenix-based Morgans Media Group…
Category: Featured
Johnnie Wright Passes
[Updated with arrangements] Country singer Johnnie Wright died this morning (9/27) at age 97 following a lengthy illness. He is known as a solo artist, as husband of female pioneer Kitty Wells, and as part of the duo Johnnie & Jack.
peermusic Adds Creative Manager
The music publisher has added a key new member to its team.
Category: Featured, Publishing
NBN SoundLand: Day 4
After late nights with Next Big Nashville’s SoundLand on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, I spent the rest of the weekend dragging. I guess there’s always a price for pursuing good times.
