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June 8, 2015

Kacey Musgraves’ Pageant Material Coming

Mercury Nashville’s Kacey Musgraves will debut new music from her sophomore album, Pageant Material, on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (June 9) and Late Night with Seth Meyers (June 10). Musgraves will perform her current single “Biscuits,” on The Tonight Show and “Family Is Family” on Late Night. Pageant Material, set for release on June 23, is available for digital pre-order tomorrow and includes instant downloads of both “Family Is Family” and “Biscuits.”

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June 5, 2015

Florence + The Machine’s …Beautiful Hits #1

To celebrate the release of their new album How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + the Machine will play select U.S. headline dates this fall, with stops including two nights at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl, a further two nights at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre and an appearance at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater. American Express Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Tuesday, June 9 at 10 a.m. local time through Thursday, June 11 at 10 p.m. local time. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. local time Friday, June 12*.

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June 4, 2015

Tim McGraw Helps Vets

Tim McGraw, Operation Homefront and Chase are continuing to award mortgage-free homes to veterans on the Shotgun Rider Tour 2015. Over their three years working together, they have awarded 108 homes, touching over 300 veterans and family members in 30 states in front of over 2,000,000 fans. Thirty-six homes will be awarded during the upcoming tour.

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June 4, 2015

Jack Antonoff Offers Thank You And Sorry

Life on the road is tough for a neurotic germaphobe who just turned 31. Thank You and Sorry is an original six-part, docu-style series that follows GRAMMY® Award-winning indie rocker Jack Antonoff during Bleachers’ world tour as he ponders relationships, life’s big questions and encounters a strange cast of unusual and witty characters along the way. Produced by Above Average, Thank You and Sorry debuts exclusively for FREE on Google Play on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Pre-order the series for your library now.

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June 4, 2015

Cracker Factory’s Chasing Ghosts Out June 20

Cracker Factory is something of a throwback. A power trio in the tradition of the Jimi Hendrix Experience or Cream making modern rock music that is at once controlled and ferocious. It’s not normal, but it feels familiar. As Seattle’s The Stranger put it, “Since their first effort they’ve been unable to write anything but drum and guitar driven, proggy rock songs, whose anachronistic feel is easily forgotten because they’re just so fun to listen to.”

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June 4, 2015

Bobby Long Offers Ode To Thinking

British singer-songwriter-guitarist Bobby Long, who is known for his powerfully evocative lyrics set to haunting melodies, has signed an agreement with Compass Records for the release of his new album, ODE TO THINKING. The CD will arrive worldwide on August 7 with U.S. and international tour dates scheduled to support the release.

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June 4, 2015

Motörhead To Bring Bad Magic

Motörhead’s 22nd studio album, Bad Magic is coming! Bristling with thunderous attitude, pioneering spirit and some of the fiercest rhythms and riffs that’ll beat your ears into submission this year, Bad Magic is a massive kick in the teeth for anyone who dared believe it might be otherwise. Indeed, if those people still remain, they would do well to grab some big fat earplugs, fall to their knees and pray like buggery, because big-rig head crushers like “Thunder And Lightning” and the especially l-o-u-d “Teach‘Em How To Bleed” show that Motörhead are as strong, mean, loud, relentless, uncompromising and goddam heavy as ever.

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