Joy Williams News

Earlier this week, AC Entertainment and Drew Holcombshared the full lineup for 2019's Moon River Music Festival. In just its first 24 hours on-sale, the festival has SOLD-OUT! 

AC Entertainment and Drew Holcomb are thrilled to share the full lineup for 2019's Moon River Music Festival, which returns to the riverside oasis of Chattanooga, TN's Coolidge Park on September 7-8, 2019.

Four-time Grammy Award-winning artist Joy Williams' highly anticipated new solo album, Front Porch, will be released May 3 via Sensibility/Thirty Tigers and is now available for pre-order. The album features twelve songs including the title track, which debuts today. Each digital pre-order comes with an immediate download of “Front Porch” as well as two previously released songs, “Canary” and “The Trouble With Wanting.”

Four-time Grammy Award-winning artist Joy Williams confirms new headline tour dates this winter and spring with stops in L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, DC and Nashville among many others. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 11 at 10am local time. These shows precede the release of her highly anticipated new album, Front Porch, due later this spring via Sensibility/Thirty Tigers. See below for a complete itinerary.

Ruston Kelly will continue his extensive headline tour in 2019 with stops at Dallas' Cambridge Room, Houston's Bronze Peacock, Austin's Antone's, Indianapolis' Hi-Fi and Nashville's The Basement East among several others. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 9 at 10:00am local time. The newly confirmed dates follow Kelly's fall headline tour, which includes upcoming performances at Los Angeles' The Hotel Café (two nights, both sold out), Seattle's Sunset Tavern (sold out) and Denver's Globe Hall among others. See below for complete details.

The official music video for Ruston Kelly's new song, “Son Of A Highway Daughter,” is premiering today at NPR Music. Of the video and Kelly's acclaimed debut album, Dying Star, NPR Music praises, “Its songs speak to the mystery of art's ability to touch people. The words and music alone haunt one's soul, but adding pictures brings it to another level altogether…This is irresistible work.”

The Apollo Theater and SiriusXM announced today that they will present Say It Loud…With Your VOTE!, a bi-partisan political special at the Apollo on Thursday, November 1 at 7:00 pm.  The exclusive event, produced in association with SiriusXM, is part of the Apollo Theater Uptown Hall series and will air across multiple SiriusXM channels debuting on November 2.    

Mobile Alabama-based quartet, The Krickets, announce the release of their sophomore album, Redbird, on October 26, 2018, produced by Sam Ashworth (Lone Bellows, Joy Williams), was recorded at Brown Owl Studios in Berry Hill in a fast and furious five days.  The album includes special guest Bruce Bouton (Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire) on pedal steel, dobro and lap steel and Jeff Taylor on mandolin and accordion on 'May We Find'.

Nashville-based indie country/Americana trio Maybe April (Alaina Stacey, Katy DuBois, Kristen Castro) have embarked on an East Coast fall tour, which includes an appearance at Audiotree Music Fest this Saturday as well as a set at North Carolina's LEAF Festival next month. Please see below for full tour details, with shows in Memphis, Little Rock, Nashville, and Washington D.C, among others.

Ruston Kelly's highly anticipated full-length debut album, Dying Star, is out today. Released on Rounder Records, Dying Star was co-produced by Kelly and Jarrad K (Kate Nash, Weezer) and features 14 songs written/co-written by Kelly.

Ruston Kelly performed his new song, "Faceplant," on last night's episode of "Late Night with Seth Meyers." 

Ruston Kelly's highly anticipated full-length debut album, Dying Star, is now streaming in full at Stereogum. Listen/share HERE.Stereogum praises, “The resulting record is an emotional powerhouse…If you've ever had a taste for somber country songs capable of ripping you apart, you ought to make time for Ruston Kelly's opening blast.” Out this Friday, September 7 on Rounder Records,Dying Star is now available for pre-order.

The official music video for Ruston Kelly's new song, “Big Brown Bus,” recently premiered at Billboard. Of the song, Billboard describes, “…Ruston's mesmerizingly smooth voice over a mix of folky, mellow guitar and bluesy harmonica.”

L. Londell McMillan, Chairman of The Source Magazine and Northstar Charities has announced The 5th Annual SOURCE360 Conference and Festival will take place, once again, in Brooklyn, New York, September 6-9. The 4-day conference and festival is mostly free to the public. Selected ticketed events are now open and available on Eventbrite. All events offer to the general public a full spectrum of performances and activations that engage and educate the community about the culture of Hip-Hop, arts, culture, music, fashion, sports, business, technology and crucial public policy concerns such as criminal justice reform.

The official music video for Ruston Kelly's new single, “Mockingbird,” is premiering across Viacom platforms in an unprecedented partnership between CMT Music, MTVUand MTV Live. Watch/share HERE.

Young Jesus, an indie rock quartet formed in Chicago and reformed in Los Angeles, looks to communicate the tensions between proximity and distance, chaos and order. On their upcoming record S/T, to be released by Saddle Creek, the band focuses on seemingly small moments in everyday life: phone calls with Mom, landscapes along the highway, crows in a tree. Yet with time these strange intimacies add up to a life. A life full of anxiety, confusion, sadness, joy, boredom, and ultimately wonder.

Beginning today, December 1, two of the most popular Amazon Original holiday playlists will premiere brand new tracks to help listeners get into the festive spirit.

Los Angeles via Chicago experimental outfit Young Jesus have signed with celebrated indie label Saddle Creek who will be releasing the band's new album S/T physically on February 23rd, 2018. The album is available digitally now.

Multiple Grammy® Award-winning, Golden Globe nominated singer and songwriter Chris Cornell joined Yusuf Islam on stage last night at the Pantages Theatre for a performance of 'Wild World'.