Hailing from Oklahoma, GRAMMY® Award-winner Zach Bryan has risen to the forefront of country music as a once-in-a-generation voice. To date, he has garnered a total of 30 RIAA Gold & Platinum certifications, including the now 7x-Platinum “Something in the Orange,” which earned a 2023 GRAMMY® Award nod for “Best Country Solo Performance.” His debut album, American Heartbreak, hit #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and reached the Top 5 of the Billboard 200. On Christmas Day 2022, he released his first-ever live album, All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster (Live From Red Rocks). Throughout 2023, Bryan traveled the globe for his soldout Burn, Burn, Burn tour, breaking attendance records along the way. In August 2023, he released his acclaimed self-titled album, receiving a nomination for “Best Country Album” at the 2024 GRAMMY® Awards. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart as well as Billboard’s Country, Rock & Alternative, Americana/Folk, and Rock charts. 2x-Platinum track “I Remember Everything” (feat. Kacey Musgraves) entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #1 before winning the 2024 GRAMMY® Award for “Best Country Duo/Group Performance.” Soon after, Bryan released his 5-song EP Boys of Faith, featuring collaborations with Bon Iver and Noah Kahan. Last year, he was named Billboard’s “Top New Artist” — the first country artist to claim the title — and took home three more Billboard Music Awards. Bryan’s 2024 album The Great American Bar Scene emerged at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart and #1 on the Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Americana/Folk Albums, and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts. With 21.8 billion global streams to date, Bryan is currently in the middle of his biggest headline tour to date, the Quittin Time 2024 Tour, which sees him play stadiums and major arenas throughout North America.  

Since their debut in 2003, Kings of Leon (Caleb (guitar/vocals), Nathan (drums), Jared (bass) and Matthew Followill (guitar) has released nine albums; Youth & Young Manhood (2003), Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004), Because of the Times (2007), Only by the Night (2008), Come Around Sundown (2010), Mechanical Bull (2013), WALLS (2016), When You See Yourself (2021) & Can We Please Have Fun (2024), selling over 20 million albums and nearly 40 million singles worldwide. The multi-platinum selling band has had five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, all nine of their studio albums on Billboard’s Top 200 list and two singles that reached #1 on Modern Rock radio. With the release of WALLS, the band garnered their first-ever number one album debut on the Billboard Top 200. In addition, they have had eight Grammy Nominations, four Grammy Award wins, three NME Awards, two Brit Awards, and one Juno Award. They have toured all over the world, playing at top venues and headlining major festivals such as Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Glastonbury. The band released their highly anticipated ninth full-length studio album, Can We Please Have Fun, on May 10 via Capitol Records and hit over 25 cities on their recent world tour in support of the critically acclaimed album.

Everybody loves a good comeback story. After releasing five genre-defining albums and building a fiercely loyal fanbase, Turnpike Troubadours — the Tahlequah, Oklahoma kings of Red Dirt music — all but fell apart in 2019, taking a three-year hiatus to find clarity amidst the noise of a red-hot career. But after the break, something remarkable and even unprecedented happened: the band returned more popular than ever. Not to mention stronger. The proof is in the group’s sixth studio album, A Cat in the Rain. Produced by three-time Grammy winner Shooter Jennings and recorded at the legendary FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and in Los Angeles, the 10-song album is a tale of reliability, rebirth, and redemption. It’s the story of brothers — frontman and chief songwriter Evan Felker, fiddler Kyle Nix, steel player Hank Early, guitarist Ryan Engleman, bassist RC Edwards, drummer Gabe Pearson — six musicians who ran the gauntlet of success, scrutiny, and even personal troubles, and would fight tooth and nail for one another. Turnpike Troubadours’ fans can feel this. That bond is in the band’s songs and in their live performances — they’ve racked up 1.5 billion streams globally and are selling out arenas and headlining festivals. Still, to some, they remain a mystery…the most popular band they’ve never heard of. But with A Cat in the Rain, that’s all about to change.

From bittersweet ballad to gritty barn burner, Noeline Hofmann brings the glowing expanse of the Plains to the stage- a voice with the golden charm of a meadowlark and lyricism with the strike of a rattlesnake. As observed by Whiskey Riff, “this girl walks the walk and talks the talk.” Between a history of working in honky-tonks and punching cattle across the Canadian Prairies, Hofmann’s sage songwriting and live show bleed a head-turning authenticity through her sterling brand of ‘wild rose’ country music.

Named one of Holler Country’s 24 New Country & Americana Artists for 2024, the notoriety of 20-year-old Hofmann’s musical prowess has extended far beyond her home in the Badlands of Southern Alberta, Canada since emerging onto the scene in early 2023.

Hot off of the release of a live video recording of her song “Purple Gas,” episode number seven of Zach Bryan’s iconic video series, ‘The Belting Bronco,’  Hofmann hit the ground with the pedal down into 2024, and with tour dates supporting Charley Crockett across Canada approaching in May as well as plans to make her debut to streaming services within the year, has no intentions of letting up.

In the Spring of 2023, Hofmann’s song ‘Lonely Morning’ landed her a Top 5 placement in the Kentucky-based Master Musicians Festival : Take The Stage Contest leading her to journey down from Alberta to Appalachia, guitar in hand.  Field recordings filmed during her American escapade, a cover of “The Bullfighter” by Luke Bell (Powell River Sessions) and an original song “Run, Horses” (Hippies & Cowboys Podcast), opened the gates further for Hofmann in the US– magnetising an audience of keen Southern listeners on top of the growing grassroots following she had gathered back home while cutting her teeth in the dive bars of Albertan cowboy towns.

In the months following her return to Canada, a video clip of Hofmann’s song “Purple Gas” picked up organic traction on TikTok and Instagram, quickly garnering the attention of international superstar Zach Bryan. Bryan shared the song with his fans, accelerating its viral success of 2 million views to date at breakneck speed leaving Hofmann with listeners around the world awaiting a debut release to streaming services with bated breath. “Purple Gas” has since been featured on Pattison Media’s commercial country radio stations across Western Canada and has received accolades and shares from thousands of fans, including stars Parker McCollum and Noah Kahan, as well as leading country music news platforms Country Central, Whiskey Riff, and Holler Country.

As stated by Saving Country Music, “ultimately we’re not looking for the next performer that can draw comparisons to Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, or Sierra Ferrell. We’re looking for the next performer who like the aforementioned names is fiercely themselves, blazing a path forward through the thick underbrush of originality as opposed to the well-worn grooves of the familiar and formulaic…That is how singer and songwriter Noeline Hofmann is separating herself from the herd, even in these moments that are in her formative stages.” The trajectory of Hofmann’s snowballing acclaim straight out of the gate points towards a road ahead that is chock-full of stage lights and marquee signs; the making of a prominent new voice in the alternative country music soundscape.