Garth Brooks announces Albany tour stop
The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood is coming to Albany, NY for the first time in 20 years. This will be last stop in the state of New York. The concert will be Saturday, March 11th at 7 pm…
Jackson Browne announces 2017 European tour dates
Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announces a June 2017 full band tour in Ireland, Scotland and England. The tour begins on June 12th at Vicar Street in Dublin, Ireland for four nights, and includes a Royal Albert Hall show in London, England.…
Beyonce, Drake lead 59th Annual Grammy nominations
The Recording Academy welcomes the class of nominees for the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Top nominees are Beyoncé (9), Drake (8), Rihanna (8), Kanye West (8), and Chance The Rapper (7). Selected from nearly 22,000 submissions across 84 categories, the…
2017 BBMAs return to ABC May 21st
Nominations will be announced early next year Dick Clark Productions and ABC have announced that the 2017 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) is set to return to ABC and will be broadcast live on Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 8 pm ET. The…
Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett team for West Coast tour
The always witty Vince Gill and the reliably wry Lyle Lovett are reuniting for a nine city tour that will take place March 2017. After teaming up for a series of concerts in 2015 and 2016, Gill and Lovett saw…
Goo Goo Dolls donate proceeds from signed memorabilia
All proceeds are going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Recently, the Goo Goo Dolls’ John Rzeznik and Robby Takac visited St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, which is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood…
Lila McCann announces PledgeMusic campaign
Nearly 20 years after taking country music by storm as a 15-year-old sensation with her hits “Down Came a Blackbird” and “I Wanna Fall In Love,” singer-songwriter Lila McCann is launching a PledgeMusic campaign centered on her highly anticipated upcoming…
Live Nation acquires two Australian music festivals
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. has announced that it has acquired 51% in Secret Sounds Group, the Australian company led by Jessica Ducrou and Paul Piticco, which owns and produces two of Australia’s leading festivals: Splendour in the Grass (located in Byron…
NYRE with Ryan Seacrest expands to New Orleans
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2017 marks the continued expansion of the iconic annual New Year’s Eve tradition with coverage from New Orleans, Louisiana in its first-ever Central Time Zone countdown. The live segments will include exclusive…
Garth Brooks scores four Top 10 Best-Selling Country Albums
Garth Brooks has an unrivaled hold on the Top 10 Country Album Chart, as his recently released The Ultimate Collection, Christmas Together and Gunslinger (Pearl Records, Inc.) were the top three best-selling albums respectively on BuzzAngle this week, while The Ultimate Hits made…
Bobby Bones announces additional comedy tour dates
Staggering demand saw tickets to multiple dates of Bobby Bones’ recently announced Funny & Alone Stand Up-Comedy Tour sell out in minutes on Friday (December 2nd), prompting Bones to add more dates to the nationwide tour. Shows in Bakersfield, CA,…
Atlantic Records to release ‘2017 Grammy Nominees Album’
The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Recordings and Atlantic Records will release the 2017 GRAMMY Nominees album on January 20, 2017, in stores and via digital retailers. The latest installment of the best-selling series — now in its 23rd year – features…
Guns N Roses announces 2017 tour dates
The resurgent Guns N’ Roses and their massively successful Not In This Lifetime Tour continue to show no signs of slowing down as the legendary band storms into 2017 with more than 30 stadium shows lined up across Europe and…
Steven Wilson remix of ‘Chicago II’ detailed
More than 40 years after its debut, Chicago II still sounds like nothing else. Released in 1970, Chicago’s second album brims with confidence and inspiration as it draws on everything from orchestral music to heavy rock. Although it never affected…
Pixies ‘Doolittle’ gets Blu-ray Pure Audio release
The Pixies’ second album Doolittle is getting an upgrade. 4AD Records is releasing the 1989 album on Blu-ray Pure Audio on December 9th. The disc will contain the album in both high definition (96 kHz/24 bit) 5.1 surround sound and as…
Tyler Hilton returns with new single, performance on ‘Pitch’
With new single “Next to You” released next week, Tyler Hilton has made his first appearance in American television drama Pitch. Tyler, who plays a Noah, a charming and quick-witted billionaire computer nerd, first appeared on the Fox TV show…
Three Keith Urban catalog titles come to vinyl
As country superstar Keith Urban closes out a historic year with the Australian/New Zealand leg of his ripCORD World Tour 2016, three of his previously acclaimed albums – Golden Road, Get Closer and Fuse – make their vinyl debut on…
Volunteer Jam celebrates Charlie Daniels’ 80th birthday
A sell-out event, the Charlie Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam hit a capacity of 15,784 patrons in the building and was a star-studded show with a portion of the proceeds benefitting The Journey Home Project. The event featured guests 3…
Reunited Ratt, Dokken headline M3 Rock Festival 2017
M3 Rock Festival, the definitive, can’t-miss annual gathering of heavy metal bands and those that love them, will turn back clock to the 1980s once more at Columbia, Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion on Friday, April 28th and Saturday, April 29th.…
CMT to air first hour of ‘Nashville’ Season 5 premiere early
Nashies set your DVRs now! As an early holiday gift for the fans, CMT has announced plans to sneak the first hour of the two-hour season premiere of Nashville on Thursday, December 15th at 9 pm ET Additionally, CMT just dropped the…
Dick Clark’s NYRE performers announced
Fourteen-time Billboard Music Award winner and ten-time American Music Award winner Mariah Carey will give the last big performance of 2016 when she performs live for over one million people in Times Square moments before the ball drops on Dick…
Garth Brooks set for 5 shows in Cincinnati
Garth Brooks has sold over 70,000 tickets for U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati. Tickets are still selling for Saturday, January 21st and Sunday, January 22nd. If you live in Ohio or Kentucky, this will be your last chance to see…
Bon Jovi adds THINFS tour dates
Bon Jovi has added dates to its 2017 This House Is Not For Sale Tour. The new dates pick up a few days after the original set of dates on March 26th in Chicago. St. Paul, Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with dual nights…
Dollywood announces My People Fund to aid wildfire victims
Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Foundation has started a My People Fund to aid victims of the Eastern Tennessee wildfires that sparked earlier this week. Parton announced that her companies will donate $1,000 per month for six months to assist the families who lost…
Exclusive: Composers for ‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors’
Music plays a big factor in every movie. Whether it’s popular music or specifically composed, it plays a more important role than one may think. I spoke with Mark Leggett and Velton Ray Bunch, composers for last year’s Dolly Parton’s Coat…
Live Nation announces Neil Diamond’s The 50 Year Anniversary World Tour
Live Nation has announced that music icon, Grammy Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Member, Neil Diamond, will celebrate his unparalleled career spanning 50 years with a world tour. The 50 Year Anniversary World Tour, produced by…
Reba, Brooks & Dunn extend Las Vegas residency
Reba, Brooks & Dunn: Together in Vegas surpasses Shania Twain’s Shania: Still The One as the longest-running country music residency at Caesars Palace since The Colosseum opened in 2003, thanks to newly added dates. The trio extend their two-year residency…
StarVista LIVE acquires stake in Abbey Road on the River Festival
StarVista LIVE, a leader in live entertainment, announces it has acquired a financial and operational stake in Abbey Road on the River, a five day music festival that draws over 20,000 fans annually and is dedicated to the music and…
Garth Brooks announces Edmonton show
For the first time in 21 years, The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood is returning to Edmonton, AB, Canada. The concert will be Saturday, February 18th at 7 pm at Rogers Place. Tickets will be on sale Friday, December…
Dollywood threatened by East Tennessee wildfires
Wildfires in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains have affected many areas of Sevier County, Tennessee including Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme part and resort in Pigeon Forge, TN. As the cities continue to assess the damage and impact of the…
The Bee Gees sign long-term deal with Capitol Records
The Bee Gees, one of the world’s most commercially successful and acclaimed bands in the history of popular music, has signed a long-term worldwide agreement with Capitol Records that encompasses the legendary trio’s entire catalogue of recorded music, it was…
Kenny Chesney sets Boston as only 2017 shows
Kenny Chesney can’t get enough of Boston. With his August 25, 2017 show at Gillette Stadium not even on sale yet, the buzz surrounding the eight-time Entertainer of the Year’s only stadium appearance of 2017 is so strong that a…
Luke Bryan extends Kill The Lights Tour into 2017
Luke Bryan wrapped his 58 city Kill The Lights Tour at the end of October with six sold-out stadium shows including a double play in Boston’s Gillette Stadium, ten sold out back-to-back concerts in five cities and 1.6 million fans.…
Billy Joel celebrates 3 consecutive years at MSG
The Madison Square Garden Company has announced the 37th consecutive show by legendary musician and MSG franchise Billy Joel. The January 11th show is part of his residency at The World’s Most Famous Arena which began in January 2014 with…
Eric Clapton announces four North American shows in 2017
Eric Clapton will celebrate a 50 year career in 2017 with four North American shows, presented by Chase. The guitar icon will perform two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 19th and 20th and two…
Taylor Swift teams with AT&T for Taylor Swift NOW
Fans have a new destination for unique and never seen Taylor Swift content, Taylor Swift NOW – only with AT&T. Taylor Swift NOW is a video experience created exclusively by AT&T and Swift. It will showcase unique videos, concert performances,…
AXS TV announces Guitar Gods marathon
AXS TV puts the spotlight on some of rock’s most influential artists in the Guitar Gods Marathon, on Saturday, December 17th. The block brings big names and bigger hits to center stage in an epic day of music, kicking off…
Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood named inaugural Habitat Humanitarians
In celebration of Giving Tuesday, Habitat for Humanity will launch Habitat Humanitarians to recognize the invaluable contributions of its high-profile volunteers. This generous group serves as mission champions, advocates and spokespeople to raise awareness of the need for decent, affordable…
Metallica ‘Hardwired’ at No 1
Metallica’s 10th studio album, Hardwired…To Self Destruct, debuted at No. 1 around the world today (Nov 28th) selling over 800,000 albums worldwide. In addition to the United States, Hardwired…To Self Destruct is No. 1 on the album charts in: Australia,…
Bobby Bones announces stand up comedy tour
Bobby Bones, host of iHeartMedia’s The Bobby Bones Show, has announced that he will take his Funny & Alone Stand Up Comedy Tour nationwide in 2017, revealing a schedule of dates kicking off in Virginia Beach, VA on January 13th. Heralded…
2017 Grammy Hall of Fame inductees announced
In keeping with its ongoing dedication to preserving and celebrating timeless recordings, The Recording Academy has announced the newest additions to its distinctive GRAMMY Hall Of Fame. This year’s collection acknowledges a diverse range of both singles and album recordings…
Savage Henry and the Infamous One Pounders ‘Get Off Easy’
To call Get Off Easy by Savage Henry and The Infamous One Pounders punk porn as some have described it, is an injustice. Rebellious, energetic, fast, loud, those are all the things that make Get Off Easy rock and roll,…
NBC airs Dolly Parton’s ‘Christmas of Many Colors’ Nov 30th
Jennifer Nettles, Ricky Schroder, and Gerald McCraney will co-star in the upcoming holiday movie Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love airing Wednesday, November 30th at 9 pm ET/PT with Dolly Parton making a special guest appearance. In the…
All you need to know about composing music for casinos
Solid Steel Facts About Composing Music For Online Casinos Even slot machines can’t work without a soul. I’d bet my last penny people only approach them to hear the gorgeous sound of nickels and dimes dropping like rain surrounded with…
Ludacris headlining Light Nightclub NYE in Las Vegas
LIGHT Nightclub, the state-of-the-art nightlife venue at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, is excited to celebrate its second New Year’s celebration under Play Management. Electro DJ-duo, Disclosure, who has hits with Sam Smith, Lorde and The Weeknd, will be kicking…
Bon Jovi announces ‘This House Is Not For Sale’ live
On the heels of Bon Jovi’s worldwide #1 album dubut of This House Is Not For Sale, a live version entitled This House Is Not For Sale – Live from The London Palladium is set for global release Friday, December…
Eric Church announced as Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day halftime show
It’s the 20th anniversary between the Salvation Army and Dalls Cowboys Eric Church has been announced as the performer for the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day entertainment during halftime on Fox against the Washington Redskins. Church will kick off The Salvation Army’s 126th…
Streaming’s Effect on the Music Industry
For Good or for Bad: Streaming’s Effect on the Music Industry In this third post based on ReportLinker’s latest survey, we analyze the impact of streaming services on the music industry. The industry is changing at a rate not seen…
Blake Shelton announces 2017 tour with Raelynn
Blake Shelton has announced his Doing It To Country Songs Tour for 2017 with support from Raelynn. The tour kicks off February 16th in Bakersfield, CA with stops in Los Angeles, Portland, Las Vegas, Fresno and more. “Performing for an…
Two Jimmy Buffett albums reissued on vinyl
Jimmy Buffett’s classic albums, Songs You Know By Heart and A-1-A, have been released back on vinyl via Geffen/UMe, making the timeless records available for the first time in decades on the format they were originally released on. Buffett’s beloved…