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Keith Urban's ripCORD Tour will head to the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion this weekend, with shows on Saturday, July 2nd and Sunday, July 3rd.  While the Saturday night show is sold out, some tickets still remain for the Sunday night engagement.  Urban is joined on tour by Brett Eldredge , along with rising country star Maren Morris .  The show promises to feature Urban's signature high-energy packed performance.  Recent sets lists have included fifteen number #1 singles, as well as collaborations with his two openers including "Someone Like You" with Eldredge and Morris taking on Miranda Lambert's role in "We Were Us". Urban is currently celebrating the success of 20th Billboard Country Airplay Chart chart-topper this week with the infectious, summer anthem “Wasted Time.” The song marks Urban’s third (“John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” and “Break On Me”) from his record-breaking album RIPCORD, which spent its first two debut weeks atop alb...

Cereus Bright are excited to share the second single off their forthcoming debut album, Excuses , due out July 29th . The track, “American Dream,” is premiering on Consequence of Sound today, who praise the song’s “ honeyed harmonies and cheery acoustic guitar ” that augment its sober message. Far from reflecting a gauzy view of the United States, the b and shares that the song was inspired by debunking the myth of the “American Dream” and that “writing this song was a way for us to vent some of our frustration.” Excuses was produced by the Knoxville band’s own Evan Ford and mixed by Tom Schick (Wilco, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Beck) at Wilco’s Chicago Studio, creating a powerful, unique, and expansive sound. At the moment, Cereus Bright is on a national “Closeup” tour, a series of hand-crafted dates across the United States where they are bringing their songs to life in intimate spaces and venues. Upcoming dates are listed below. Cereus Bright was born out of a blin...

Jordyn Mallory’s debut EP featuring the CMT spotlighted “Boat Friend” is now available on iTunes . The self-titled EP, originally released via  Spotify  this May, consists of four tracks compiling Mallory’s “southern pop” style with her witty and flirty lyricism. The EP transitions through multiple levels of emotion from the ultimate summer anthem “Boat Friend,” to the storytelling ballad “Southern Belle.” “Boat Friend,” written by Mallory with Greg Becker and Mike Shimshack, is the single release from the EP. The music video premiered on CMT’s Artist Discovery campaign and is available for viewing  here . “Two summers ago, I was in a Jeep with my girlfriends when one of the girls said ‘I really wanna be single this summer but we need to find some guys with a boat,’ and I said ‘You don’t want a boyfriend, you need a boat friend.’ Everyone laughed and I immediately knew I was going to write that song,”  said Mallory. At 24, th...

Townsquare Media, Inc. welcomed superstar Blake Shelton as Saturday night's headliners for the 25th Anniversary Country Jam this past weekend in Grand Junction, CO. Shelton played for over two hours to an on-their-feet and energized capacity crowd. (L to R): Matt LaRose, VP, Live Events- Townsquare Media, Inc.; Sally Lidinsky, Director, Live Events- Townsquare Media, Inc.; Blake Shelton; Carolyn Chauncey, VP, Live Events- Townsquare Media, Inc.; Dhruv Prasad, EVP, Live Events- Townsquare Media, Inc