Villa One recording artist Frank Ortega is back on the country radar with the release of his much talked about new single, “Two Places At Once.” Penned by David Lee Murphy, Ira Dean and Kim Tribble, the tune is the lead single from Ortega’s highly-anticipated debut album slated for release later this year. “Two Places [...]
Brandon Hardin is host of a program called The Backroads on 96.5 KECO in Elk City, Okla. which features everything from Top 40 country to obscure Red Dirt and Texas Country. The program caught our attention in Music City, and we have to say, we liked what we heard. So we called him up and asked [...]
Music City Roots: Live From The Loveless Cafe, dubbed “Nashville’s Coolest Show” by Southern Living, is pleased to announce a radio syndication milestone. More than 25 affiliate stations now carry the Nashville-based concert series, which is available to non-commercial and commercial stations in one-hour and two-hour edited versions. Stations from coast-to-coast such as Santa Rosa, California’s KRSH [...]
Kicks-Off 2013 Touring with a String of Sold Out Dates MCA recording artist Kip Moore released his new single, “Hey Pretty Girl” to country radio today. The third single from his debut album Up All Night follows his two consecutive No. 1 singles “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck” and “Beer Money.” “Hey Pretty Girl,” a song [...]
Three-time 2012 CMA Award nominee Jason Aldean and CMA Awards co-host and 2012 Entertainer of the Year nominee Brad Paisley surprised radio professionals around the country with news of their CMA Broadcast Award win. The announcement of the CMA Broadcast Award winners is the pinnacle of what CMA has deemed the Year of Country Radio. As a [...]
Renegade Radio Nashville will partner with Walt Disney Companies to promote the opening of New Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom® Park at Walt Disney World® Resort. The station – one of 40 stations and the only Internet station invited to take part in the promotion – will broadcast live from the Magic Kingdom® and Epcot® on December 6th and [...]
Collin Hudson is first and foremost a Red Dirt music fan. He and his partner, Kellie Poolaw, began a Red Dirt radio show in 2008 on 98.5 FM in Anadarko, Okla., and last year they founded RDROK.COM, their very own Red Dirt and Texas Country radio station. I got the chance to ask Collin a [...]
Big Joe Matthews had one of the biggest weeks of his honky-tonkin’ career the week of Independence Day. After opening for Grammy-award winner David Ball on Independence Day at Rooster’s Chicken Shack in Hennessey, Okla., Big Joe was invited to join the Jon Anthony Band to rock the crowd at Sliders Bar in Oklahoma City. [...]
ALL ACCESS reported opponents of the UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP’s $1.9 billion bid for EMI’s record labels are asking the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust issues to examine the deal, raising the possibility of Senate hearings. The issue for many is that the combined company would have control of more than 40% of the overall music [...]
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I started my radio career 12 years ago as a student at the University of Arizona in Tucson. I tried to get on the student radio station, but nobody would call me back so I started working promotions at KiiM FM. It didn’t take long to work my way into the overnights [...]
