101 Arrested at New England Country Music Festival; Claire Lynch Signs with Compass; Album Releases

• Claire Lynch signed with Compass Records. Her Compass debut will be released in early 2013. (via press release)

• Zac Brown Band’s The Foundation went triple platinum. Hunter Hayes’ “Wanted” and Toby Keith’s “As Good As I Once Was” have both gone platinum, and Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” has been certified gold.

• Bruce Springsteen is a fan of the Eric Church song.

• The Americana Music Association signed a two-year agreement with AXS TV to broadcast the Americana Honors & Awards.

• Dr. Tom Bibey passed away on Sunday.

• Here’s a new video from The Kentucky Struts.

• 101 people were arrested over the weekend at the New England Country Music Festival.

• Justin Townes Earle chats with The Weekly Feed in this video.

• Ralph Stanley covered a Velvet Underground song for the new film Lawless.

• Stream the whole Lawless soundtrack here.

• Woody Platt (Steep Canyon Rangers) picked out a few tunes for The Bluegrass Situation’s mixtape.

• Here are several songs from the upcoming Kasey Chambers/Shane Nicholson album, Wreck & Ruin. New songs will be posted until the record’s Australian release date, September 7.

• A study published in the August 2012 issue of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts examined 50 years of emotional cues in popular music. From the abstract: “In line with our principal hypotheses, there was also an increase in the use of minor mode and a decrease in average tempo, confirming that popular music became more sad-sounding over time. Decreases in tempo were also more pronounced for songs in major than in minor mode, highlighting a progressive increase of mixed emotional cues in popular music.”

• On his album Hands of Glory (due out 10/30), indie singer Andrew Bird is going to release “old-time” versions of his music along with covers of songs recorded by The Carter Family and others.

• The Band Perry has almost finished their new album; the first single will hit radio this fall.

• The Avett Brothers were featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.

• American Songwriter’s Lyric of the Week is Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927.”

• According to Pollstar, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney’s Brothers of the Sun Tour is the highest-grossing tour of the summer.

• Give a listen to a new Bob Dylan song, “Duquesne Whistle.”

• Album releases:

The Wood Brothers – Live, Volume 2: Nail and Tooth

The Roys – New Day Dawning

The Flatlanders – The Odessa Tapes

Josh Turner – Live Across America (Cracker Barrel Exclusive)

American Aquarium – Burn. Flicker. Die

Uncle Lucius – And You Are Me

Darrell Webb Band – Breaking Down the Barriers

Caroline Herring – Camilla

Ricky Young – Spinning My Wheels