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Ra have entered into a management deal with FM Music Management. They have joined FM Music Management's impressive roster which includes Nonpoint, Through Fire, SHIM, Kataklysm, MEYTAL, Royal Bliss, The Black Moods, Keith Wallen, Spoken and more. In addition, the band will be performing on ShipRocked 2020, February 1-6 from New Orleans to Key West & Cozumel! Cabins are sold out, but you can join the waiting list! Check out www.shiprocked.com for all the details!

Deadline reports that Cavalry Media will develop a television series out of Bloodleaf, a YA fantasy novel by Crystal Smith.

Itasca, the folk project of California songwriter Kayla Cohen, has announced her new album Spring, due out November 1 on Paradise Of Bachelors. After releasing 2016's acclaimed Open to Chance, Cohen escaped Los Angeles for a six-month retreat to a 100-year-old adobe house in rural New Mexico. Cohen wrote the ten songs of Spring there, inspired by the region's vast isolation and rich cultural history. The album's title refers to the desert's sparse water sources, which Cohen envisions as “the search for true connection to the earth, the seductive nature of answers... the dusty spring deep in the mind that keeps us sifting.”

Deadline reports that Bianca and Chiara D'Ambrosio will lead yA (working title), a spinoff of 'The Bay,' Amazon's Emmy-winning daytime drama.

Deadline reports that Jeff Meacham, who has recurred on 'black-ish' since season one, will be upped to series regular for the show's sixth season. Meacham plays Josh, Dre's (Anthony Anderson) nonsensical co-worker.

Rapping math professor Chad Rico is prepping for quarterly semester exams with the release of the final four singles from his '12 Weeks of Summer' hip hop music project on Gold & Gems Records.   The last assignments include 'Still Wit It,' August 9; 'Success with the Shade' on August 17;'Wonder,' on August 23 and 'Sleep in the Phantom' on August 30. Rico's '12 Weeks of Summer' has really added up, bringing the sum total of this musical equation to a blast summation!

Variety reports that Disney's live action 'Cruella''s opening has been delayed until Memorial Day in 2021, while Amy Adams-led drama 'The Woman in the Window' has been pushed to 2020. 

Vermont musical collective 99 Neighbors just unveiled a brand new track and video titled 'Ripstick.' The latest offering follows the group's recent Nice Work signing announcement, in partnership with Warner Records, and 'Fake Pods' release, which garnered the attention of Complex, Billboard, Variety, Lyrical Lemonade and more.

Deadline reports that Rotimi has joined the sequel to Eddie Murphy's 'Coming to America,' named appropriately numerically: 'Coming 2 America.' He joins original cast members Eddie Murphy (Prince Akeem) and Arsenio Hall (Semmi), James Earl Jones (King Jaffe Joffer), Paul Bates (Oha), John Amos (Cleo McDowell), Shari Headley (Lisa McDowell), Louie Anderson (Maurice), and Vanessa Bell Calloway (Imani Izzi).

Billboard reports that country singer Michael Ray will headline the 18th year of CMT On Tour. 

Variety reports that David Oyelowo is will likely star alongside George Clooney, Felicity Jones, and Kyle Chandler in Netflix's untitled adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton's 2016 novel “Good Morning, Midnight.' Clooney also directs the feature. 

Luck Productions is pleased to announce Luck Showboat, a special AMERICANAFEST collaboration in which the magic of Luck, TX, will be brought to Nashville's Cumberland River on September 12th via the iconic General Jackson Showboat. Slated to perform are old-time golden boysOld Crow Medicine Show and Southwest Airlines Artist On The Rise winnerKatie Pruitt, with more headlining artists to be announced in the coming weeks. “We've been working on this idea for a couple of years now,” says Luck's Executive Producer, Matt Bizer. “We are extremely excited to be bringing the Luck experience to Nashville and could not think of a more fun way to do that then on the General Jackson Showboat.” Fans who've experienced Luck's flagship event, Luck Reunion at Willie Nelson's ranch in Texas, can expect the same curated musical experience found there, and new fans who've never been “in Luck” will get a taste of the quintessential hospitality Luck Productions is known for—an event that Fast Company called the “Anti-Coachella” that is “all about the music and almost impossible to get into.” Speaking of getting in, tickets go on sale Friday, August 23rd, at 12 pm central and can be purchased at http://luckreunion.com/showboat.

Variety reports that Carmen Ejogo and Isiah Whitlock Jr. have joined Showtime's upcoming drama 'Your Honor.' Multiple Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston was previously announced to star.

Patsy Cline's trailblazing spirit is remembered in a?oeMy Patsy Cline Songbook,a?? the first-ever, full-length jazz tribute album arriving August 23, 2019.  Drawing on her country roots, vocalist Staci Griesbach's debut album explores looking at the Nashville Songbook as another treasure trove to consider reinterpreting for jazz, much like the traditional Great American Songbook.

Deadline reports that Netflix will produce Wanda Sykes and Mike Epps' upcoming comedy 'The Upshaws.' The actors will star and executive produce; Sykes will co-showrun with Regina Hicks. 

After selling out the legendary Webster Hall earlier this summer, Emo Nite LA has announced they will be returning to the Big Apple to help launch the very missed Late Night series. Taking over the Grand Ballroom on Saturday, November 23rd, this will be an event unlike any other. American Express cardholders will have early access to tickets beginning Wednesday, August 21st at 10am with all remaining tickets going on sale this Friday, August 23rd at 10am.Line-up will be announced at a later date.

Deadline reports that Christian Serratos (The Walking Dead) is in conversations to play the late, great Selena Quintanilla in an upcoming Netflix series about the singer. 

No rules and unapologetic – the “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) nature of the hardcore punk movement began in the late 1970s and birthed a global community of artists, musicians, and fans that uphold the DIY ethos, where creators take matters into their own hands to express themselves through art and music. To provide a glimpse into the unique community, Vans kicks off its latest brand campaign, 'The Spirit of DIY,' featuring ambassadors of DIY culture from around the world who are making things happen and influencing the communities around them. 

This fall, America ReFramed, the Peabody-award winning documentary series from American Documentary, Inc. and WORLD Channel, shines a light on National Hispanic Heritage Month as it takes audiences behind the headlines and into the lives of three Latinx DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients fighting for their right to higher education. An unflinching and humanizing look at the immigration debate, access to higher education and the ideas of who belongs in America today, The Unafraid, directed and produced by Anayansi Prado and Heather Courtney, premieres on Tuesday, October 1, at 8 p.m. ET on WORLD Channel and online at www.worldchannel.org.

Deadline reports that The Matrix will return to screens and to W.B. Studios. Stars of the original series Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne Moss will reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity; creator Lana Wachowski is back to write and direct.