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Dress Up for St Jude Fundraiser Set for September 10, 2015
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Dress Up for St Jude Fundraiser Set for September 10, 2015
If you’ve been meaning to de-clutter your closet, or are looking for a bargain on great clothes, while also helping one of the most amazing organizations in the country, keep reading the press release below to find out out you can help St Jude’s Childrens Research Hospital! Crazy Pitches, a group of Nashville music publishers Read More
Oh dear Lorde, not you too…
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Oh dear Lorde, not you too…
A few weeks ago, Lorde split from her manager, Scott Maclachlan, and his company, Saiko Management. It happens all the time, but for new artists, it often has disastrous consequences for their career. I would hope this won’t be the case for Lorde, but given what she next put out on social media, I have Read More
Keith Hill, defender of the status quo at country radio
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Keith Hill, defender of the status quo at country radio
In the weekly Country Aircheck update, country radio consultant Keith Hill outlined, with cold indifference to the actual music, how radio stations can improve their numbers. And by numbers, he actually means profit. Hill gave some tips about optimizing libraries and codes, and oh yeah, he also said this: And the internet outrage machine cranked into Read More
So, about this new Luke Bryan single…
9 years ago Liv Carter 2
It’s becoming a tradition. Luke Bryan releases a new single, the corners of the internet decrying the current state of country music howl. And who can blame those people? Luke Bryan wields enormous power at radio, and his single choices are influential. Still, I tend to be quite forgiving. I understand the place his music Read More
Ty Herndon Plans Concert for Love and Acceptance for June 13, 2015
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Ty Herndon Plans Concert for Love and Acceptance for June 13, 2015
For many years, Ty Herndon felt, sadly correctly, that the country music world would not accept him for who he is. But social progress does what it always does. With the country music audience now far ahead of the established PTB, Ty Herndon’s announcement last November that he is gay, was by quite a few Read More
“How dare you have different values than me?”
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on “How dare you have different values than me?”
Travis Tritt is upset. Because Tim McGraw, among others, has different values than he does. You see, Tim is headlining a concert for an organization called Sandy Hook Promise, which was founded by family members who lost a loved one in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Please say Read More
Rivers Rutherford Joins “The First and The Worst” Music Health Alliance Fundraiser, April 1
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Rivers Rutherford Joins “The First and The Worst” Music Health Alliance Fundraiser, April 1
The lineup for Music Health Alliance’s charity event on April 1 was already amazing, and now they also added Rivers Rutherford! Check out the press release below for more details: Hit songwriter, Rivers Rutherford (“Ain’t Nothing Bout You”/Brooks & Dunn, “Living In Fast Forward”/Kenny Chesney, “Real Good Man”/Tim McGraw), has been added to the star-studding Read More
Billboard Power 100 Includes Borchetta, Dungan, Esposito but Shows Nashville’s Place in Music
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Billboard Power 100 Includes Borchetta, Dungan, Esposito but Shows Nashville’s Place in Music
When you live in Nashville and you keep hearing about how it is “Music City,” it is sometimes easy to forget that the real top music industry power brokers are still elsewhere. Billboard’s annual Power 100 list is a great reminder of just who are the men and (still depressingly few) women behind the curtain. Read More