Month: February 2011

Taylor Swift Sells Out in Singapore

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Taylor Swift’s Speak Now Tour is officially underway, starting with a sold-out performance in Singapore! Taylor Swift is finally off on her whirlwind Speak Now tour! Her first date on the tour was in Singapore, where she sold out the Singapore Indoor Stadium last night! Taylor will continue on through 19 countries and almost 100 shows before taking a break in the fall. If her Fearless tour was any indication, you’d better get your Taylor Tickets fast because EVERY date on this run will sell out!

CMT’s Next Superstar Reality Show

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Real World meets American Idol in CMT’s new talent competition: CMT’s Next Superstar. American Idol and Dancing With The Stars executives team up to bring a reality-show format to a talent competition in CMT’s upcoming series “CMT’s Next Superstar“. The series will feature ten episodes in which contestants will live together and compete against each other in industry tasks such as video production, songwriting, performances, interviews and more. The series will air beginning this April so stay tuned! One of the reasons this show stands out from the rest is that it’s the only show where the contestants take an active role in deciding who’s in the band,” noted executive producer, Simon Lythgoe. “Whereas contestants must sing in different genres on other shows, this is all about Country music. Our contestants will turn some world renowned songs from other genres like Pop or Motown, pour their soul into it and make it Country. Past reality/talent competitions on CMT have brought us stars like Miranda Lambert and Steel Magnolia… let’s see what this one can fish out!

Sara Evans Exclusive Interview

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Sara Evans certainly could not ask for more these days, with her new album Stronger flying off the shelves! Country Music Tattle Tale recently got the chance to interview Sara Evans, and found that not only is she just like her album title “Stronger”, she’s also gracious, sweet, and…. an Eminem fan? Take a listen to CMTT’s exclusive interview with Sara Evans! you can catch Sara this summer as she performs a live concert with Ronnie Dunn as part of the Fremont Street experience at CMAFest!

Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert at the Grammys

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Country music gets represented well at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards! This Sunday the world will tune in the The Grammy Awards on CBS to see who wins some of the industry’s top honors for the last year and who gives some of the hottest performances. Representing our little corner of the world will be Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert, the only two country music acts to grab a spotlight during the broadcast. Martina McBride will also pop in for a part in a fantastic Aretha Franklin tribute. The 53rd annual Grammy Awards show will air on CBS at 7 p.m. Central, and numerous local artists are nominated during the Pre-Telecast Ceremony, which will be streamed live at www.grammy.com/live from 3–6 p.m. Central.

Miranda Lambert Faces Crazy Fan

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Persistant Miranda Lambert fan harasses Ran right off the stage! I’ve always thought country music fans, and especially fans of Miranda Lambert, were a little more composed than the rest of the music-listening world. No crying teenagers or flinging bras. No stage jumpers or obsessive stalkers. Then I saw this video over at Kris Country’s site. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtHb9jQCtg] About halfway through you’ll see Miranda reacting to the constant badgering of a crazed fan, to the point that she just walks off stage at the end of the song… where has their dignity gone? And where was her security?

Rock Band Winners Announced!

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Congratulations to the winners of our Rock Band Country Track Pack giveaway! Congratulations go out to the following winners of our Rock Band Country Track Pack Volume 2 prize drawing! Jim G – Oklahoma Bruce E – Kansas John H – Oklahoma Dave H – Idaho Jennifer R – Oklahoma Thank you so much for participating! Stay tuned for more great giveaways in the weeks ahead!

Rockin Red Dirt Revival

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Red Dirt music is getting a whole lot rowdier this spring! Local promoter Chris “Julio” Allred has come up with the perfect combination of Rock, Country and local Jamgrass bands to create one hell of a party at the Rockin Red Dirt Revival concert series. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX4TvaodSgQ] The Rockin’ Red Dirt Revival is a 14 week series starting Feb 26, then every other Saturday night til May 21 at various venues spanning OKC to Fayetteville, AR. Concerts will take the best Rock and Red Dirt bands from TX/OK, and pair them with the crazy popular Jamgrass bands in the region. Plus, add in an acoustic singer/songwriter on a side stage playing during band changeovers. This is seriously some pilgrimage-style festival stuff happening in small venue settings so DO NOT MISS IT! For more details, visit our feature article on the Red Dirt Revival.

Red Dirt gets Revitalized

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Oklahoma City man Chris “Julio” Allred is pulling out all the stops to bring a foot-stompin’ good time back to Red Dirt country! The Rockin’ Red Dirt Revival is a 14 week series starting Feb 26, then every other Saturday night til May 21 at various venues spanning OKC to Fayetteville, AR. Concerts will take the best Rock and Red Dirt bands from TX/OK, and pair them with the crazy popular Jamgrass bands in the region. Plus, add in an acoustic singer/songwriter on a side stage playing during band changeovers. Red Dirt Revival Dates and Line-ups Feb 26. Benjamin Del Shreve Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition Jason Stringfellow Band Mr. Gib Stones Mar 12. the Whistle Pigs Charliehorse Exit 174 Corey Carter (formerly of Fade to Fall) Mar 26. Willie Stradlin Red Eye Gravy Jason Strode Band Joe Mack Other bands included in RDR are Adam Lopez and the Lo Tops, 2 Steps Back, Zach Williams and the Reformation, Tyrannosaurus Chicken, Brandon Clark Band, Mountain Sprout and more. There will also be a coordinating Songwriter class/workshop at the Fayetteville Public Library on late afternoons the day before each show. At least 1 artist that we’ve booked in will conduct a freebie workshop on song writing, teaching writing methods, inspiration harnessing, music and lyric development, and sharing their experiences in writing their own material and their lives in the music industry. Impromptu concerts are expected to break out at any time. There will also be a “Well Drinks for Mental Wellness” campaign going on throughout the concert series, so keep your ears open for all the different bars and restaurants participating in this innovative awareness campaign for mental health issues. Advance tickets can be snagged for $10 at www.honkthetonk.com starting on Feb. 3.

Snow Days, Snow Days!

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With half the country covered in a thick blanket of snow, here’s ten ways the CMNB crew has been killing time! It’s Day 3 of what has been affectionately nicknamed “Snowpocalypse 2011” and the staff at CMNB is starting to run out of ideas on how to kill time in the frozen tundra. Here’s what we’ve tried so far… We’ve resurrected the Myspace account that started it all, only to find that Myspace is no longer useful in any way. Instead it is overwhelmingly covered with advertisements, pop-ups, and is desperately just trying to keep up with facebook. We have taken up leather crafts, creating necklaces, bracelets, wallets and keychains. Of course then I started having flashbacks of a childhood summer camp/child labor experience so we had to put that away. We baked. Then we ate. Then we slothed on the couch watching Steven Tyler on American Idol until our brains went numb. Then the scale told me I shouldn’t do that anymore. We video-gamed out on Little Big Planet 2, Red Dead Redemption and CoD Black Ops. Of course I’m not in any way coordinated with a video game controller so it was a lot of me dying right away and everyone laughing. We played in the snow… for about 5 minutes before our fingers turned blue and we ran back inside. I learned to use the brand new sewing machine that’s been in my closet since Christmas of 2010. I learned that it costs $1 to bribe a child to trudge through the snow to the mailbox, and $2 to have them take out the trash. Me sitting on the warm dry couch while they perform these tasks is priceless of course. We took bets on which cars were most likely to slide out of control on the highway running parallel to our property. The winner was a Toyota Camry for those keeping track. We wrote songs about being snowed in, about the wonder of PAM cooking spray on a satellite dish, about the hot Arizona sun, and about our hound being an all-terrain-animal. And finally, we gave up on entertaining ourselves, and Netflixed every John Wayne film in their library. Now we are halfway through Day 3 and out of ideas… what are YOU doing to battle cabin fever?