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Thank you to all of the stations that have supported “January!”
Connor Jameson picked up the guitar at the tender age of 12 and hasn’t looked back since. Now 28, Connor has seen radio success and graced some of  the most prestigious stages in Nashville, Tennessee.  A true artist at heart, Connor  is the sole writer on  all of his music, infusing it with authenticity and raw emotion. His sound is a unique blend of country and Christian music, reflecting his deep-rooted beliefs and personal experiences.

Everyone has a “January.” That month. That person. That phone call. That goodbye.  Some dates don’t end when the calendar changes.  They stay with you forever.”January” is a  repeatable,  heart-touching song that everyone  can relate to.  It builds into a powerful song that reminds us that sometimes relationships come at a  cost that  we can never truly pay.

DINGO SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘BLEED IT DRY’ AND HITS THE ROAD WITH THE RELEASE OF HIS SECOND STUDIO ALBUM ‘NIGHTWIRE’
 
For more than a decade, Dingo has criss-crossed the country with a guitar in his hands. Best known as the formidable guitarist alongside Kasey Chambers, the troubadour has steadily carved out a reputation of his own. Now, Dingo steps firmly into the spotlight with his second studio album Nightwire, arriving alongside the gritty new single ‘Bleed It Dry’.
 
A textured collection of folk, blues and alt-country, Nightwire pairs weathered guitars and story-driven songwriting with the organic sound of a band allowed to breathe. At its heart it’s a record about freedom, and finding meaning in a life spent in motion.
 
“The album ‘Nightwire’, much like the title track, is themed around freedom in life. These songs are a dive into a greater understanding of my own life and the ways I have attempted to make sense of it. From songs about life on the road, love, friendship and family, ‘Nightwire’ is a record for anyone who is grappling with the beautiful and confusing ebbs and flows of life.”
 
Opening the album, ‘Bleed It Dry’ is a tenacious country song about a relationship on the brink of collapse that doubles as something bigger: a story about giving everything to the path you choose. Bluesy guitar and singer-songwriter intimacy collide as Dingo and his band stretch out around the song.
 
“This is one of my favourite songs on the album. It’s really a song written about diving all in one way or the other, for me it’s related to life, written through the lense of a withering relationship.”
 
Produced and engineered by Jordan Power ( Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Powderfinger) at The Rabbit Hole Recording Studio, ‘Bleed It Dry’ captures a tension that runs throughout Nightwire – tough and vulnerable in equal measure.
 
“This is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written so I was precious about the way it was produced. Working with Jordan Power was an amazing experience as I watched him effortlessly lead the band and myself exactly where we needed to be to create what the song needed.”
 
Across Nightwire, Dingo looks at freedom from both sides. The Bob Cronk co-written title track bottles the feeling of a life on the road, ‘Live in the West’ leans into his blues influences and ‘Myna Bird’ contemplates surrendering the things that cannot be controlled.
 
But the record continually finds its way back to people. ‘The Dining Table’, featuring Kasey Chambers , celebrates the rare moments when family and friends gather in one place; ‘Autumn’ explores falling in love; while ‘It Feels Sad to Be in Love’ considers the uneasy coexistence of love and sadness.
 
The album also draws on a colourful cast of collaborators and lived experiences. ‘Fever Dream’ features Woodie McClean and Felicity Kircher, NZ songbird, Jenny Mitchell appears on ‘The Payphone’, and Aussie rock legend, Ian Moss joins Dingo on the hopeful ‘Lonely Night’. On ‘Fighting Light’, Dingo draws on his years working at a Central Coast rehabilitation centre for a song dedicated to the underdog.
 
Having recently toured the East Coast with Adam Harvey and Busby Marou, Dingo has spent the run presenting his new songs in their rawest acoustic form. The singer-songwriter also recently appeared at Gympie Music Muster and, just returned from performing his own show at Deni Ute Muster.
 
Dingo is taking Nightwire on the road for his first headline ticketed tour, before joining Ian Moss and Troy Cassar-Daley for select dates on their ‘Together Alone’ tour.
 
“I can’t wait to be heading out on the road for the ‘Nightwire Album Launch Tour’. This is my first ever headline ticketed tour and I couldn’t be more excited to share my new album with everyone at these shows.”
 
Beyond his own career, Dingo has spent around eight years involved with Our Rainbow House, a small school in Zambia where he and his partner volunteer as music teachers and write songs with the children. This year he returned with his partner to record an EP of those songs to help raise money for the school.
 
It’s another thread that sits naturally alongside Nightwire – a record shaped by the people, places and experiences collected along the way.
 
With ‘Bleed It Dry’ leading the charge, Nightwire captures Dingo somewhere between movement and home, freedom and responsibility, love and heartache, letting the music make sense of it all.

ARIA NOMINATED ARTIST FOR THIS YEAR’S AWARDS2 X GOLDEN GUITAR FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEARMAX JACKSON RELEASES ANTHEMIC NEW SINGLE, FGL (ME & YOU)LAUNCHES SINGLE AT UPCOMING STRUMMINGBIRD FESTIVAL DATESTHE NEW SINGLE OUT NOW:

Two x Golden Guitar Female Artist of the Year, Max Jackson, kicks off a fresh era with the release of her new single  FGL (Me & You).  A feel-good country anthem inspired by Florida Georgia Line unexpectedly reuniting at CMA Fest 2026.  The single also lands right after Max received her first ARIA Award nomination for Best Country Album of the Year (Dangerous In Denim).Having grown up blasting FGL in her first car, the reunion transported Max straight back to being 17, windows down, young, free and falling in love. It sparked a bigger thought: if FGL could do the thing they said they would never do, maybe there is hope for a relationship you thought was finished too.The result is a nostalgic but contemporary country song about second chances, packed with subtle FGL references and built around a huge singalong hook.As Max describes it, “ FGL (Me & You) is one of those songs that genuinely wouldn’t exist without one particular moment.  I grew up blasting Florida Georgia Line in my first car. Windows down, 17 years old, that feeling of freedom you attach to songs forever. So when I watched Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley unexpectedly come back together at CMA Fest this year, from my living room in Australia, it instantly transported me back there. What I’ve always loved about FGL’s music is that it’s the ultimate escape. It’s fun, summer, young, crazy and in love. That’s the kind of country music I’m craving right now, and that feeling became this song. It’s honestly one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written and I can’t wait to get out there and sing it at the top of our lungs together.”FGL (Me + You) was penned by Jackson, Nick Wolfe and Kylie Sackley and produced by Jared Adlam. The single marks a fresh chapter in Max’s career having recently signed with new management, TOBE Artists. 

About Max Jackson:
From humble beginnings in the small country town of Coonamble NSW (Pop. 2750), to winning Australia’s biggest country music competition (Toyota Star Maker). Max has played Country Music Festivals across Australia and overseas including CMA Fest in Nashville and C2C London and Berlin. The 4 X Golden Guitar Winner (New Talent of Year, Single of Year and 2 X Female Artist of The Year) is only just beginning with her fanbase continually growing globally.

Jet Walke r today releases his debut mixtape bushboy, a raw and honest collection of songs shaped by his life and experiences growing up in regional Australia.
 
Recorded between Sydney and Jet’s studio in his hometown of Gympie, Queensland, ‘ bushboy’ brings together the different styles, stories and influences that have shaped Jet’s experiences. From Post Malone to the raw, direct songwriting of Randy Travis, Garth Brooks and Shenandoah, Jet pulls from a broad musical palette to shape his unique sound.
 
“‘bushboy’ brings together different styles and stories from my experiences growing up in regional Australia.” Explains Jet, “I wanted it to feel raw and honest, but also distinctive and authentic to who I am.”
 
At the heart of bushboy is new single ‘the last time’, which sees Jet joined by rising Australian country artist Bella Mackenzie. Produced by Nashville duo Jacob Lincoln and Caleb Avery (Nic D, GRAHAM), melancholic slide guitar soundtrack the pair, as the lyrics sift through lingering memories and the pull of someone difficult to forget.
 
Marking Jet’s first full-length body of work, ‘ bushboy’ captures an artist settling into his own lane. Across the mixtape, Jet builds a world that feels unmistakably his – grounded in country, while pushing his sound in new directions.

We would like to introduce you to AJ Kross.  Known as the top session vocalist in Nashville, AJ cut his teeth in Nashville from playing Ole’ Red on Broadway multiple times a month and doing shows at The Listening Room for years.  AJ is currently on a 45-day radio tour on a wrapped Prevost with John Shomby, meeting with radio PDs in the Top 30 DMAs for this release and will be back out on another 30-day radio tour to support the second single. This wrapped tour bus is traveling over 12,500 miles and generating an estimated 1.8 million impressions for this debut single, “God Made a Small Town,” which released just last week.  With another single scheduled for release next month and two more in February and April 2027, with the album release in January 2027, AJ will heavily reach country music in 2027.Look for our ads in Country Aircheck and Billboard to get AJ’s out to the hands of the industry.  We are interested in ALL markets in the country.  We are interested in activating with each station we can and certainly the overall companies that own your stations.  Thank you for taking a look at AJ Kross, and listening to God Made a Small Town.  This couldn’t be happening to a better human, who puts his ego aside and is humble and puts his faith and his family (his wife and dog Chevy) first and foremost. 

Brisbane singer-songwriter Dennis Comino is stepping into a new chapter with the release of “Dancing on a Fault Line”, the lead single from his highly anticipated debut album  YOUTH , due Friday 23rd October.Blending folk, rock and alt-country with an infectious indie/pop edge, “Dancing on a Fault Line” is an uplifting, feel-good escape about leaving your worries behind and embracing the moment, even when life feels uncertain.At its heart, the song is about resilience, movement and finding the courage to keep going when the path ahead isn’t clear.

“Dancing on a Fault Line” sets the tone for  YOUTH, a deeply personal 10-track debut album that explores growing up, love, change, uncertainty, nostalgia, family and the process of becoming someone new while still holding onto the person you once were.For Dennis, YOUTH began almost two years ago when he revisited and completely rewrote two songs, “Youth” and “Both of Us”.“They were completely different songs before that, and finishing them felt like I had finally found the direction I’d been aiming for. After that, I finished a couple more tracks and thought, why not keep going and make an album?”What followed was a collection of songs that gradually became a snapshot of a formative period in Dennis’ life.“From there, the project slowly became a collection of moments, feelings and versions of myself from a really formative period of my life. To me, YOUTH is about growing up while still trying to hold onto the parts of yourself that existed before everything became more complicated.”Rather than being created from one definitive plan, the album evolved organically as Dennis experienced the highs, lows and changes of the past two years.“A lot of the album came together naturally rather than from one clear plan, and I think that’s part of what makes it so personal to me. It feels like a snapshot of these past two years and everything that shifted within them.”More than simply a collection of songs,  YOUTH is Dennis’s way of capturing memories before allowing himself to move forward.“More than anything, I hope people hear some part of themselves in it. I hope it reminds listeners of certain people, places, memories or versions of themselves they thought they had forgotten. YOUTH is my way of holding onto those moments, while also learning to let them go.”Dennis Comino is quickly establishing himself as an artist to watch, bringing powerhouse vocals, impressive guitar skills and infectious live energy to every performance.An official Cole Clark Guitars touring artist and 2021 Junior Graduate of the Academy of Country Music, Dennis has already performed at some of Australia’s biggest music festivals, including Gympie Music Muster, Woodford Folk Festival and Tamworth Country Music Festival, as well as performing on multiple stages in Nashville, Tennessee.He has shared the stage with Australian artists including Dean Lewis and Travis Collins, while also supporting The Wet Whistles, Andy Penkow, Caitlyn Shadbolt and Australian music icon Ross Wilson.Cutting his teeth gigging throughout Brisbane and surrounding areas, Dennis has developed a distinctive sound that refuses to sit neatly within one genre. Drawing on folk, rock and alt-country, with an indie/pop edge, his music is influenced by artists including Mumford & Sons, Noah Kahan, ROLE MODEL, Zach Bryan, Sam Fender and The Lumineers.In August 2024, Dennis released his debut EP  Dead in the Water, a six-track collection of raw, heartfelt songs exploring love, heartbreak and the realities of growing up. The EP received airplay across Australia, the USA, UK and Europe, further establishing Dennis as a songwriter capable of connecting with audiences well beyond his hometown.Now, with “Dancing on a Fault Line” leading the way, Dennis is ready to introduce listeners to the next chapter.

Two of Australian Country Music’s most applauded performers, Darren Coggan & Genni Kane, unite in an uplifting celebration of love and life with a cracking new single release, ‘First Light’. The spirited song also featuring Australia’s finest Bluegrass pickers; Kym Warner on Mandolin, Ian Simpson on Banjo & Peter Denahy on Fiddle. At its core, ‘First Light’ is more than a song. It’s a reminder, deeply human and quietly profound, an exploration of gratitude, hope and resilience, finding peace in the balance between letting go of the past and embracing the present moment with love and grace.   Lending her beautiful voice to this song, is Australian music royalty, Genni Kane. Genni Kane first found her feet as a songwriter and lead vocalist with the legendary 80’s band Flying Emus.  

Australian-born, Nashville-based country artist Lucie Tiger delivers a cinematic collection of songs on her album Small Town Scandal on September 30th. The idea for the project was inspired by Tiger’s own experience of spending two years immersed in small-town Southern life. The album unfolds like a collection of stories passed between barstools, front porches and church pews. Some of the stories are light-hearted and fun. Some are dangerous. And some dark secrets were probably not meant to leave the room – all captured with wit and humour through Tiger’s city-girl lens.Across the album, Tiger builds a world populated by the characters she met, lovers and cowboys, preachers and troublemakers, dreamers, schemers, sweethearts, and sinners. There are late night shenanigans, risky decisions, rumours, fast cars, whiskey shots, whispered secrets plus her award-winning, popular murder ballad, “Harvest Moon”. “I became fascinated by the way stories travel in a small town,” says Tiger. “Everybody knows everybody, everybody has an opinion, and somehow a story can make it from one end of town to the other before you’ve finished your first whiskey. Small Town Scandal grew out of that world. Some of these songs are fun, some are messy and some get pretty dark, but they all feel like they could have happened somewhere just down the road or around the corner.”Musically, the record stretches across Tiger’s distinctive brand of cinematic country, pulling together honky-tonk swagger, Southern rock muscle, bluegrass textures and atmospheric storytelling without losing Tiger’s idiosyncratic thread connecting the songs. Recorded in Muscle Shoals, Small Town Scandal carries the musical fingerprints of the region that helped inspire it. Tiger worked alongside an accomplished studio lineup including Bob Wray on bass, Clayton Ivey on keys, Tommy Harden on drums, with Tiger performing vocals and guitar and sharing production duties with Charles Holloman.The album arrives during a period of growing momentum for Tiger. In 2025, she won Country Vocalist of the Year at the Josie Music Awards. In 2026, Tiger garnered her most wins and nominations yet for songwriting, and she continues to gather chart recognition on the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart, CDX Nashville True Indie Chart and Australian charts.Of the album, Tiger is quick to note that the songs are not about judging the characters in her lyrics. “ Every town has its scandals,” Tiger says. “The names and details change. But there’s always somebody falling in love with the wrong person, somebody making a spectacularly bad decision, somebody talking about it — and somebody turning it into a song.”

· “Tequila Talking” is a high-energy track that is a finalist at the 4th Annual Hollywood Independent Music Awards and the Australian songwriting awards. The track reached #23 on the CDX Nashville True Indie Chart and #3 on the AMRAP Metro Chart (Australia). 
· “Hell In A Halter Top” is an unapologetic girls’-night-out track that keeps the energy going on the fun side of the album. It debuted on WAFF TV and the music video was filmed at the State Line Lounge on the Tennessee border with Alabama.
· Tiger’s racy “Cowboy Love Me” was a top 20 single in Australia, reached #8 on the CDX Nashville True Indie Chart, and #59 on the MusicRow Country Breakout Chart. This track garnered the most chart appearances and media attention.  
· “Last Call For Trouble” is a cinematic country track built on temptation, tension, and the kind of stories that don’t start with ‘once upon a time’.  It continues Tiger’s Music Row Chart momentum and is a Finalist in Australian songwriting awards.
· In the lead single for the album, Tiger turns car racing into a clever metaphor for dating in “Love Moves Fast In A Small Town” , offering an amusing take on the high-speed manoeuvres of small-town romance: “Who’s gonna be making up and who’s gonna be shaking up their love life on the home stretch tonight.” 
· “Devil’s Telephone” hit #1 on the Metro Sydney Chart and a Finalist at the Annual InterContinental Music Awards. “A searing country rock anthem against the destructive power of gossip…Lucie’s lyrics are sharp and incisive.” (Country Music News International). 
· Look out – she’s on the warpath with “Dixie Alley”. Ominous beats and siren-like guitars provide the menacing soundtrack for lyrics like “Did you really think I wouldn’t discover, you’ve been holing up with your late night lover”.
· Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned in “The Devil Works Hard.” It features a driving beat and sharp lyrics that make this song a masterful take on a woman’s justifiable anger, “The devil works hard but ain’t nobody gonna be working any harder than I”. 
· “Oh Preacher”- This satisfying slice of outlaw bluegrass country features banjo, fiddle, and honky-tonk piano accents. It’s driven by punchy, rhythmic production, without losing its contemporary commercial edge. It reached the top 40 in Australia.
· “Harvest Moon” won the Grand Prize at the 2026 Pensacola Songwriters Festival, is a Finalist at the 12th Annual Josie Independent Music Award Nominations and nominated at the 16th Annual InterContinental Music Awards and 4th Annual Hollywood Independent Music Awards, plus featured on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart. 
· “On My Way To Mississippi” is a cinematic outlaw-country revenge story. It has a beginning, escalation and climax — and importantly, the woman isn’t a bystander to the man’s story. She takes over the story. It’s Tiger’s lyrics at their best.
· “Love Me Like That” is the emotional payoff of Small Town Scandal — a clarion call for love. If the album is populated by cowboys, preachers, gamblers, troublemakers, liars, cheats, then this track is the woman underneath all that bravado.
· Get ready for the goosebumps version of “The Devil Works Hard (Heavy Version)”. When it was recorded, co-producer Charles Holloman noted the time and day of recording because he KNEW it would become memorable. 
· “Harvest Moon (Extended Version)” is a track that really cooks.  It’s a cinematic country track driven by an organic roots-rock groove and a storytelling vocal line that builds from conversational verses into a sweeping, emotionally resonant chorus. 

Twenty-five years ago, 16-year-old Melissa Bajric walked into the studio to record her debut album, Believe In Me, with multi-award-winning producer Lindsay Butler. ‘My Dad Was a Road Train Man’ became the album’s first radio single and the song that launched Melissa’s professional music career. Now, a quarter of a century later, that same 16-year-old voice has been brought into the present with a brand-new production that celebrates everything Melissa has learned, experienced and achieved along the way. Melissa has always held Lindsay Butler in the highest regard, and his influence on her early recording career was pivotal. It is both fitting and deeply nostalgic for Melissa that the track opens with Lindsay’s original track ID — a sound normally heard only on the working track in the studio — instantly transporting her back to those early optimistic days. The original recording also featured drums by Lindsay Waddington, the musician who has gone on to become Melissa’s on-stage Musical Director, her current producer and one of the most important musical collaborators of her career. He has once again played the drums for the new production, merging the past with the present. This release is about more than a song. It is a celebration of 25 years of music and the people who made the journey possible — the producers and musicians who helped shape her music, the industry people who opened doors, the friends and collaborators who stayed the course, and the fans who kept turning up to shows, buying the records and singing along to the songs. Every one of them is part of this recording. 

As Seen In USA TODAY’s High Impact AwardsTop 5 Artists & EntertainersTEXAS FIREBRAND PAYTON HOWIE SIGNS WITHWEST VILLAGE ENTERTAINMENT, KICKS OFF FALLWITH UPTEMPO “TRUCK BED”Rising Country Singer-Songwriter Joins Christy DiNapoli-Led West Village Entertainment as NewMusic Sets the Stage for a Breakout Fall
 
Blazing her own trail in country music, Payton Howie is one of the genre’s most exciting new female artists. With over 4 million career streams and more than 150,000 social media followers, she continues to captivate audiences with her country rockin’ soulful sound and amazing vocal delivery.
She has toured alongside Parker McCollum, Lainey Wilson, Ashley McBryde, Garth Brooks, Gretchen Wilson, Lukas Nelson, Corey Kent, Tracy Lawrence, Aaron Watson, Trisha Yearwood, and Warren Zeiders. Her single Ramblin’ Woman reached #5 on the Ireland Country iTunes Download Chart.Now, she returns with her latest release, “Truck Bed,” co-written with CMA Triple Play award winning songwriter Brady Seals. Payton has also earned Female Vocalist of the Year nominations from both the Texas Regional Radio and Texas Country Music Association, cementing her status as a rising force in country music. Currently joining forces with Christy DiNapoli and West Village Entertainment, Payton is someone to watch in 2027 as one of Country’s dominate new females.