Country On-Demand :: Under The Radar

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Carrie gives back

Carrie Underwood (who?) is a confirmed participant in this year's edition of Idol Gives Back, the "American Idol" charity episode. Last year, Ms. Underwood sang a cover of the Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You," which proved to be a huge hit, selling hundreds of thousands of copies on iTunes and charting on Billboard's Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles chart. She will be in LA on Sun., April 6, with her band, to record her segment for the show. Underwood says she will be singing a favorite, but is tight-lipped about what song that might be.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Garth on GAC

GAC will have the exclusive world premiere of Garth's new video "Midnight Sun" this weekend on the Top 20 Countdown. Fans will also be able to view the video on GAC's site starting on the 28th. The video is also found on the DVD that comes with the "Ultimate Hits" album package.

Friday, March 21, 2008

A CMA visit

Some nice photos from our friends at the CMA:

Chuck Wicks (2nd right)

Ashton Shepard (center)

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Hold the freakout

We've been in touch with Shania Twain's manager at Q-Prime and received a statement regarding Twain's comment suggesting she had retired from the music business.

"I am unaware of that statement," said Gayle Fines, Twain's manager. "As far as I know, she is still a client for Q-Prime and is still working on new music."

Country On-Demand's staff will be in touch with Twain's label and will work on securing more details on this developing story.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Martina is busy being fabulous!

Friday, March 7, 2008

Party in Nashville!

PHOTO: courtesy of Country Aircheck.

This is the SONY/BMG roster, or, well, most of it. I noticed the industry darling is missing. I'm actually quite surprised. Who else is missing?

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The bandwagon money train

As if we don't have enough already (and as if we can't all admit to ourselves that Apple has it right with iTunes), Facebook is reportedly in talks with the Fab Four (UMG, Sony BMG, Warner Bros, and EMI) because the owners want to make more money, I mean, sell music to users. Reuters reports that the other social network site, Myspace, which does have official artist/band pages and rights to their music, has also approached the Fab Four about launching a similar service. Yippee.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Super Tuesday II

I'm busier than Brian Williams on Super Tuesday. In fact, today is Country's Super Tuesday, with CRS in full swing and the ACM nominations out today. There's five stories breaking at the moment, and we will have PICTURES plus exclusives from today's ACM press conference. Talk to you soon.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Springtime jingle bells

Word out of Wynonna World is that the better half of the Judds will continue her holiday tour for a second run this year. She's dubbing it her "2nd Annual Christmas" tour. Details are expected to be announced soon, for those who already have an itch for Jolly St. Nick.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Vince vs Arnold

From the Tennessean: Vince Gill and wife Amy Grant performed last Sunday at the White House in front of governors from around the Union. Vince recalled a time in the 1970s when he was a struggling musician living in L.A. and Arnold Schwarzenegger, now Governor Arnold from California, persuaded Vince to loan him a guitar for a photo shoot. Arnold broke the guitar in the process. The Terminator turned red when Vince brought it up.

"It was an honor for you to break my guitar," said Vince.

And I'm sure Governor Schwarzenegger can say it was an honor to borrow and break a guitar from Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill.

Finally, eh?

For those of you who are regular here, some notes:

1) We are having some major technical problems. That would be why we haven't podcasted or sent out newsletters for the last two weeks. Everything should be up and running by the end of the coming week.

2) FINALLY - new single reviews are up under the music section. Enjoy!