Relativity Music Group is pleased to announce the release of the soundtrack for Relativity Media’s adrenaline-fueled Navy SEAL action-thriller Act of Valor, featuring brand new original songs written and inspired by the film from today’s top recording artists including: Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Sugarland, Trace Adkins, Wynonna Judd, Montgomery Gentry, and more. In theatres February 24, 2012, the Bandito Brothers’ Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a film like no other in Hollywood’s history, along with actors Roselyn Sanchez, Alex Veadov, Jason Cottle and Nestor Serrano, in an unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking. Pre-Order of the Act of Valor album is available on the iTunes® store now. The soundtrack will be released by Relativity Music Group and distributed in music retail locations by Capitol Records Nashville on February 21st.
The track listing includes original songs written and performed by artists including: Keith Urban (whose song “For You” is featured in the film’s end credits), Sugarland (“Guide You Home”), Lady Antebellum (“I Was Here”), Trace Adkins (“If the Sun Comes Up”), Lori McKenna (“Two Soldiers Coming Home”), Jake Owen (“The Best I Can”), Montgomery Gentry (“What It Takes”), Josh Kelley (“The Best of Me”), Hunter Hayes (“Where We Left Off”), and Wynonna Judd (“Whatever Brings You Back”).
Produced and directed by former Baja 1000 champion Mike “Mouse” McCoy and former stuntman Scott Waugh, and written by Kurt Johnstad (300), Act of Valor features a gripping story that takes audiences on an edge-of-their-seat journey, when a mission to recover a kidnapped CIA operative unexpectedly results in the discovery of an imminent, terrifying global threat, an elite team of highly-trained Navy SEALs must immediately embark on a heart-stopping secret operation, the outcome of which will determine the fate of us all. Act of Valor combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the-minute battlefield technology, and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure film—showcasing the skills, training and tenacity of the greatest action heroes of them all: real Navy SEALs.
Relativity’s expansive upcoming slate includes the magical adventure comedy Mirror Mirror (in theatres March 30, 2012), starring Oscar®-winner Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Nathan Lane, and Armie Hammer. The studio just wrapped production on the comedy 21 and Over and is currently in pre-production on Nicholas Sparks’ gripping love story Safe Haven and the international espionage thriller Hunter Killer.
For more information about Act of Valor, please visit http://www.actofvalor.com
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Tim & Faith add a second Melbourne show!
TIM McGRAW & FAITH HILL ANNOUNCE SECOND MELBOURNE SHOW THIS MARCH
Chugg Entertainment and Rob Potts Entertainment Edge today announced the addition of a second Tim McGraw & Faith Hill performance in Melbourne, to take place on Wednesday 21st March at Rod Laver Arena.
"There is so much excitement surrounding this tour, I think because it's more than just a concert - it's an event," said Michael Chugg. "The first time that they've toured together here and the first time that Faith Hill has ever performed here – I know that I wouldn't want to miss it."
The Tim McGraw & Faith Hill / Australia 2012 tour will be the first time the country music superstars have toured together outside of North America, will be Hill’s first time touring Australia and will include them performing separately and together.
It will feature their massive hits including McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying, Everywhere, Real Good Man and Hill’s Breathe, This Kiss and The Way You Love Me, as well as duets It’s Your Love, Let’s Make Love and I Need You.
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill / Australia 2012 will mark almost five years since the power couple last toured together and will be only the fourth time they have ever done it – first in 2000, then 2006 and 2007.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are autonomously amazing, but together they’re a partnership powerhouse, particularly when it comes to touring.
Don’t miss Tim McGraw and Faith Hill touring together for the first time in Australia.
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 10TH FEBRUARY, 9AM (LOCAL)
TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL : TOUR DETAILS
| DATE | CITY | VENUE |
| Friday 16 March | Adelaide, SA | Adelaide Entertainment Centre (Arena) |
| Sunday 18 March | Hunter Valley, NSW | CMC Rocks the Hunter |
| Tuesday 20 March Wednesday 21 March | Melbourne, VIC Melbourne, VIC | Rod Laver Arena Rod Laver Arena – NEW SHOW |
| Friday 23 March | Brisbane, QLD | Brisbane Entertainment Centre |
| Saturday 24 March | Brisbane, QLD | Brisbane Entertainment Centre |
| Sunday 25 March | Brisbane, QLD | Brisbane Entertainment Centre |
| Tuesday 27 March | Sydney, NSW | Allphones Arena |
For more information go to:
For tour information contact The PR Company
concerts@theprcompany.com.au or 07 3256 2168
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Iain Shedden on the inaugural Country Music Radio Seminar Australia
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/festival-airs-its-country-charm/story-fn9d2mxu-1226256663164
Excerpt from
Festival airs its country charm
Iain Shedden
Yet the subject of how to make Australian country music hip and therefore more profitable hasn't disappeared completely. On Australia Day, the inaugural Country Music Radio Australia Seminar was held in Tamworth. The main subject for discussion was how to get Aussie country on to commercial radio, something with which the genre has always struggled. Harvey, who is also on the board of a NSW central coast radio station, was able to bring two perspectives to the debate and had welcome theories about how to achieve this goal. As an artist, buying advertising with radio stations on which you are being interviewed or performing was one alternative, he said wearing his radio hat.
"Some of the artists may be unaware of that possibility, that for a small amount of money they can actually have their album advertised on a station," Harvey said. "That way they can have 20 ads a day running for their album. There's no pressure to do it, but we do let artists know about it. We need to educate our artists that they need to engage radio stations more. They need to become friends of the presenters and the programmers, and if you can spend a couple of dollars on the station too and buy some spots, that's the secret."
The chief point made by Harvey and other commentators at this debate was that there aren't enough new stars emerging from Australian country music to sustain its commercial success, never mind improve it, on Austereo and elsewhere.
The seminar's organiser, Australian promoter Rob Potts, was the most vocal about the dearth of Aussie talent, at least talent that has the potential to break the Australian charts in the way US artist Taylor Swift has done. As he pointed out, it has been five years since an Australian artist or group (the McClymonts) had a gold album in Australia.
"If you go back to the era of Lee Kernaghan, Urban, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole and Gina Jeffreys emerging, we were having a raft of gold and platinum-selling artists," Potts said. "We had a massive resurgence of this music in Australia. As soon as we stopped having those gold-selling artists, our industry started slowing down. We're feeling that across the board and we may not want to admit it, but Australian country music right now is the unhealthiest it has been for a long time."
As a promoter, Potts has been responsible for bringing Nashville big guns Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson to Australia, and the success here also of our greatest country export, Urban, proves there are potentially large audiences for up-and-coming talent.
In the meantime, Australia's country music fraternity should be fairly proud of what it has, in Tamworth and beyond. Even without the stars, there's a wealth of great roots bubbling underneath.
Urban, speaking on video at the awards to accept his male artist of the year trophy, stressed how important to him it was that he had been able to establish a fan base at home in Australia, aided by a successful tour here last year.
Earlier in the evening, Urban's youthful mullet made several appearances as the audience was treated to a 40-year retrospective on video of Tamworth's colourful past. His rise from Star Maker talent quest winner to international superstar leaves some room for optimism for the industry at large.
The most satisfying thing about Tamworth 2012, however, was that it seemed like an event more relaxed with its place, with less of an image complex and, in the case of the awards, less ambitious about trying to be something it is not. If both can sustain that attitude, Tamworth can remain a worthy celebration of Australian culture, country-style.
Excerpt from
Festival airs its country charm
Iain Shedden
Yet the subject of how to make Australian country music hip and therefore more profitable hasn't disappeared completely. On Australia Day, the inaugural Country Music Radio Australia Seminar was held in Tamworth. The main subject for discussion was how to get Aussie country on to commercial radio, something with which the genre has always struggled. Harvey, who is also on the board of a NSW central coast radio station, was able to bring two perspectives to the debate and had welcome theories about how to achieve this goal. As an artist, buying advertising with radio stations on which you are being interviewed or performing was one alternative, he said wearing his radio hat.
"Some of the artists may be unaware of that possibility, that for a small amount of money they can actually have their album advertised on a station," Harvey said. "That way they can have 20 ads a day running for their album. There's no pressure to do it, but we do let artists know about it. We need to educate our artists that they need to engage radio stations more. They need to become friends of the presenters and the programmers, and if you can spend a couple of dollars on the station too and buy some spots, that's the secret."
The chief point made by Harvey and other commentators at this debate was that there aren't enough new stars emerging from Australian country music to sustain its commercial success, never mind improve it, on Austereo and elsewhere.
The seminar's organiser, Australian promoter Rob Potts, was the most vocal about the dearth of Aussie talent, at least talent that has the potential to break the Australian charts in the way US artist Taylor Swift has done. As he pointed out, it has been five years since an Australian artist or group (the McClymonts) had a gold album in Australia.
"If you go back to the era of Lee Kernaghan, Urban, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole and Gina Jeffreys emerging, we were having a raft of gold and platinum-selling artists," Potts said. "We had a massive resurgence of this music in Australia. As soon as we stopped having those gold-selling artists, our industry started slowing down. We're feeling that across the board and we may not want to admit it, but Australian country music right now is the unhealthiest it has been for a long time."
As a promoter, Potts has been responsible for bringing Nashville big guns Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson to Australia, and the success here also of our greatest country export, Urban, proves there are potentially large audiences for up-and-coming talent.
In the meantime, Australia's country music fraternity should be fairly proud of what it has, in Tamworth and beyond. Even without the stars, there's a wealth of great roots bubbling underneath.
Urban, speaking on video at the awards to accept his male artist of the year trophy, stressed how important to him it was that he had been able to establish a fan base at home in Australia, aided by a successful tour here last year.
Earlier in the evening, Urban's youthful mullet made several appearances as the audience was treated to a 40-year retrospective on video of Tamworth's colourful past. His rise from Star Maker talent quest winner to international superstar leaves some room for optimism for the industry at large.
The most satisfying thing about Tamworth 2012, however, was that it seemed like an event more relaxed with its place, with less of an image complex and, in the case of the awards, less ambitious about trying to be something it is not. If both can sustain that attitude, Tamworth can remain a worthy celebration of Australian culture, country-style.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
New single and video from Alan Jackson
Check out this powerful new single and music video from Alan Jackson - 'So You Don't Have To Love Me Anymore':
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Jasmine Rae on The Morning Show
Miss Jasmine Rae's awesome performance on Channel 7's Morning Show? Check it out here - http://au.tv.yahoo.com/the-morning-show/video/-/watch/27713912/
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Jasmine Rae talks rural touring and ARIA Nominations
"My favourite venue is in Kuranda in Queensland, near Cairns, and it is kind of out of the way because you have to go up into a rainforest and it’s an outdoor amphitheater in a rainforest. It is the coolest venue."
Check out this great interview with Jasmine Rae at Jolene: The Country Music Blog - http://jolenethecountrymusicblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/interview-jasmine-rae.html
In other news, Jasmine was nominated today for FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR at next year's Golden Guitar awards in Tamworth.
Check out this great interview with Jasmine Rae at Jolene: The Country Music Blog - http://jolenethecountrymusicblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/interview-jasmine-rae.html
In other news, Jasmine was nominated today for FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR at next year's Golden Guitar awards in Tamworth.
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