Country star Josh Thompson has launched a cover contest that gives fans a chance to join him on stage!

Thompson announced the contest Monday night (March 10), on his social platforms. Fans can submit an Instagram video covering one of the songs on Josh's setlist. The prize? The winner will be flown to see Josh in concert and gets to join him on stage! 

The best news is that fans don't have to sing to enter! Fans can sing, lip sync, or just rock out to a song to be eligible! All of you hairbrush singers, this is your chance! Fans' cover videos also have a chance of being featured on Thompson's social platforms!


Songs to Cover Include: 
"Cold Beer With Your Name On It" 
"Beer On The Table" 
"Lonely Long" 
"Way Out Here" 
and more!

For more information and to enter visit HERE

You can also tweet your support for the contest with #TurnItUp4Josh

Josh's new album "Turn It Up” is set to release April 1st. You can pre-order HERE. 

Watch the video for "Cold Beer With Your Name on It" HERE. 

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Leah Turner announced today that she will do a StageIt tonight, March 13th. Come hang with her at 8pm CST. She will "answer all your burning questions, drink some beers, and throwsome jams at ya"
This is one StageIt you don't want to miss! 
The show will live stream for about 45 minutes online, and you can pay what you want (you can watch for a dime if you like). Click the link to get a ticket!

Summer concert season is kicking into high gear! We have had so many great shows announced recently and we can now add another to that list. Chris Stapleton is coming to NYC for a show at the Bowery Ballroom (one of my personal favorite venues in NYC) on May 28th at 8pm. Tickets and information here.
Watch "What Are You Listening To" below.

General Mills announced the launch of its third annual Outnumber Hunger campaign, which has provided more than 25 million meals to Americans in need as part of a partnership with Feeding America and Big Machine Label Group. Each year a talented roster of popular music artists join the initiative to raise awareness for the hunger issue, which affects 49 million Americas. The Outnumber Hunger campaign officially kicks off today with Country sensation Florida Georgia Line as the face of the 2014 campaign.

“Through our experiences with Outnumber Hunger, we have learned the far reach of hunger in America, affecting people from all different backgrounds,” said Tyler Hubbard, the Georgia half of Florida Georgia Line. “This year, we’re proud to take an even bigger role in the fight against hunger and rally the nation to help those in need.”

Florida Georgia Line and other BMLG artists will be featured on boxes of more than 90 popular General Mills’ products. By entering a code from these specially marked boxes online, Americans can help Feeding America secure five meals on behalf of a local food bank based upon the ZIP code entered.

“Our artists are proud to raise their voices with General Mills and Feeding America to highlight the troubling hunger issues that so many Americans face day-to-day,” said Scott Borchetta, president and CEO of Big Machine Label Group. “This powerful group of partners is using its collective voice to rally Americans and help the 49 million people across our country who struggle with hunger.”

For every code entered by Jan. 31, 2015 at outnumberhunger.com, General Mills will donate 55.5 cents to Feeding America, with a maximum total donation of $1.2 million. General Mills has already donated $600,000 and will donate up to an additional $600,000 based on online code entry.

For more information visit here.

The 4th annual ACM Awards Zinepak will be released on March 18th and is currently available for pre-order. The two disc set consists of a total of 31 songs as well as six guitar picks. The first disc, "Kings and Queens," contains songs by the nominees. The second disc entitled "New Jacks" contains songs from terrific artists like Joel Crouse, Leah Turner and Corey Smith. You can pre-order your copy here.

This week, Joel Crouse was invited to become an honorary "Friends and Family" member of the  Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. Joel visited with staff and took a behind the scenes tour of the museum. 
The mission of the  Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and educate its audiences.  For more information, please click here. 
For more information on Joel Crouse visit here.

With the release of their seventh album, Burn.Flicker.Die., American Aquarium is proving that they are musicians who have made an undeniable commitment to their music and their fans. Recorded in eight days under the direction of Jason Isbell, the record is described as a "consequence" record by the band's vocalist BJ Barham. It is their most painstaking effort to date dealing with the things they encountered over the past six years: watching bands peak and die, working hard, being on the road and pining for their own payoff.

From their official website:
“I wish my addictions didn’t mean so much/but we all can’t be born with that kind of luck,” Barham sings on the title track, capturing the fast lifestyle with images of subtle barroom horrors: Finding a high in a dingy bathroom stall, a pretty barfly from somewhere down south you won’t see again, free shots you can’t say no to. “Casualties” is a soaring, chorus-less ode to death by rock that confronts age and the band’s great fear of having made the wrong choice. They’ve watched artists ride the hype train right off the track. But that can’t be American Aquarium – they’ve been laying low too long, finding their way to the most poignant album of their careers through hard touring and waking up to realize that it’s not Saturday night anymore.

Some of the record hurts to hear, like the quiet, fine-spun “Harmless Sparks.” It sounds like the flicker of a solitary cigarette burning to its filter in the blue-black glow of a bar. Keys plink like shot glasses in the background, and you’re the last to go home. American Aquarium has been there before. But the record also looks to the end of a hard road, where there might be validation for good music, and even love. In “Jacksonville,” Barham promises someone a call if he “makes it out alive.” Taking a cue from Ryan Adams, he draws romance out of shame in “Northern Lights.” And in “Saturday Nights” and “Saint Mary’s,” he makes a subtle mockery of the dives they know too well – slick with spilled whiskey and crawling with restless women who all look the same.

Every grizzled image of Burn.Flicker.Die is real, which comes from the band’s profound understanding of small southern town debauchery and six years of pushing their careers off the bottom rung. Like many of their musical heroes that have paved the way before them, American Aquarium can wrap the ugliest feelings in the most spirited soundscape. Sonically uplifting instrumentation and vivid, wrenching lyrics illuminate the dark side of hanging out in rock ‘n’ roll limbo, but also how the band has clawed their way out of it. Through their struggle to sustain their career and resist the temptation of fire, American Aquarium’s demons have hung around. But so have they.

American Aquarium will be at Mercury Lounge on May 23rd. For tickets, visit here.

ACM Lifting Lives® announced that the March “My Cause” web feature will spotlight Corey Smith and the charity organization, Seva Foundation.  The web feature drives awareness of artist-supported charitable organizations and supports fundraising efforts for those philanthropies.

This month, “My Cause: Seva Foundation” highlights an organization that is dedicated to the prevention of blindness around the globe.  Seva builds sustainable eye care programs in places where access to services is extremely limited and people commonly lose their eyesight due to cataracts, injuries and other easily preventable causes.  Since 1978, Seva’s Sight Program has helped nearly 3.5 million people see again. 

The ACM Party for a Cause Festival will be held April 4th and 5th in Las Vegas prior to the ACM Awards on the 6th. Previously announced headliners Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban will be joined by artists including Will Hoge, The Cadillac Three, Joel Crouse, Leah Turner and Charlie Worsham. 

The 2nd Annual ACM Party for a Cause® Festival is a two-day outdoor music festival headlined by Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, respectively. The festival will be the first-ever special event held at The LINQ, Caesars Entertainment’s new open-air shopping, dining and entertainment district at the heart of the famous Las Vegas Strip, and will transform into a country music fan’s paradise featuring multiple stages for ongoing LIVE country music performances,  interactive games, a country marketplace, and more to be announced. The event is part of The Week Vegas Goes Country® leading up to the 49th Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

Friday’s “Outnumber Hunger Live!” concert series will benefit Outnumber Hunger, an initiative from General Mills, Big Machine Label Group and Feeding America that helps fight hunger in local communities. To date, Outnumber Hunger has helped secure more than 25 million meals for Feeding America’s network of local food banks. Scheduled to appear on the Main Stage is headliner Rascal Flatts,along with performers Danielle Bradbery, Justin Moore, Cassadee Pope, Thomas Rhett, Florida Georgia Line, and The Cadillac Three. Plus Will Hoge,Chase Rice and Charlie Worsham will perform on the Party Stage.

Saturday’s line-up will be presented by ACM Lifting Lives® and will benefit several military philanthropies including Folds of Honor Foundation, Wounded Warrior Project, Navy SEAL Foundation, Team Rubicon, and Nellis AFB Force Support Squadron. The evening’s headliner will be Keith Urban and includes scheduled performances by Lee Brice, Brett Eldredge, Tyler Farr, Kip Moore, Joe Nichols, Jerrod Niemann, Chris Young, Love and Theft,and Parmalee. Plus Joel Crouse, Jon Pardi, Leah Turner, Austin Webb, Dan + Shay, and Max Impact,the premier rock band of the United States Air Force, will perform on the Party Stage.

Following the Main Stage performances on Saturday, April 5th, the festivities will continue with ACM After Hours with Jerrod Niemann & Friends on the Party Stage featuring performances by Tyler Farr, Jerrod Niemann, American Young, Natalie Stovall and The Drive, The Swon Brothers, and more.

For information and tickets visit here. 

This morning on GMA, Miranda Lambert announced that her fifth album Platinum will be released on June 3rd. The album will contain sixteen(!!) tracks including a duet with Carrie Underwood, "Something Bad." Miranda says "We're really rocking country music and we're coming together as a force." 
For more information, including pre-order bundles, visit www.mirandalambert.com