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• Your “first” place is where you live, your “second” is where you work or go to school and your “third” place is any location that you go to regularly and no one’s forcing you to show up.
• It can be anything from the gym to a park to church, but a lot of us don’t have one.
• Experts say third places are important because they promote social interaction and help us have an identity outside of work and home.
• Source: Today

• Cody Johnson doesn't like to keep his fans in the dark; if he's got something new in the works, he gives them plenty of warning
• He's been teasing new music for quite some time now, so fans know a new double-album ("Leather") is coming some months down the road. Now he's teased a new single from that project - "The Painter"
• Earlier this week he revealed it was coming; now he's dropped a video clip of him dancing with his wife, accompanied by a snippet of the song 
• According to the caption to the clip, the single will be available everywhere August 14
• Source: WhiskeyRiff

• When it comes to "American Idol," winning is one thing, but all eyes (and ears) are focused on "what comes next?"
• Season 20 winner Noah Thompson is embarking on the "what comes next" part, with a new EP being released in June, and now, the second music video from that EP has dropped
• Titled "She Gets It From Me," the video is the second from Thompson, after "In The Middle Of God Knows Where" debuted a few weeks back
• Source: CountryNow

• In 2021, Sebastien Roure found a class ring at a World War II battlefield in France, and later discovered it belonged to U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Kuroda, a Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action in 1944.
• Roure reached out to Kuroda's family, who traveled to France to reclaim the ring and now proudly display it alongside Kuroda’s Medal of Honor at their family business in Hawaii.
• This week, the Roure family visited the Kurodas in Hawaii, getting to see the ring again, meeting the family and getting a tour of the island as thanks for returning an important part of their family’s history.
• Source: KITV

• It’s always hot in the summer, but this summer has seen record-breaking heat waves and scorching temperatures.
• BuzzFeed rounded up some free hacks to help keep you cool(er) in the heat.
• From buckling your seat belt when you get out of the car to keeping the metal buckle from burning you when you return to hanging silver thermal sheets over windows to reflect the heat, here’s what people recommend.
• Source: BuzzFeed

• Parmalee has announced new music on their Instagram page
• "For You 2" is an extension of their current album, "For You"
• The band announced a September 22 drop date - and teased four separate songs clips on their post
• Source: MusicRow

• With the rise of Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" from #2 to #1 in its second week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, country music has done something that's never been done before 
• With Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" at #2 and Luke Combs' "Fast Car" at #3, country hits take the Hot 100’s top three spots in a single week for the first time, dating to the Hot 100’s inception in August 1958
• The single, which was released in May, made a mammoth leap on sales and airplay charts in a direct response to CMT's banning of the video for the song and the ensuing controversy in mid July

Source: Billboard

• Jimmie Allen fans will be happy to know that the embattled country star is readying to go on tour - albeit a little confused by the nature of the tour
• On his socials this weekend, Jimmie announced an upcoming three-night comedy tour
• Calling it the "I Said What I Said" tour, the invitation-only series of shows are tentatively slated for October
• Source: People

• Zach Bryan has yet to have a true country radio hit - but that doesn't mean he hasn't made it in the music industry. In fact, the singer just set a new all-time record on the Billboard charts
• And NOT on the country charts. Zach's "Something In The Orange" has now been on the Billboard Top 100 Chart for an unbroken 65 weeks - setting the record for longest run for a male country singer on the all-genre chart
• Five more weeks, and he'll officially own the record for longest-running country hit of all time on that chart, male or female, surpassing LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live"
• Source: WhiskeyRiff

• Dierks Bentley was readying to play a concert in Bristow, Virginia over the weekend when he noticed that several headliners had big pictures of themselves hanging on the walls in the backstage area
• Noting pictures of artists like Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw and Luke Bryan - but none of him - Dierks said, "I've headlined these places, sold them all out, many times...just not getting the respect I feel like we deserve as a band"
• Dierks then proceeded to hang his own portrait, saying, "Sometimes you just gotta do it yourself"
• He then added a smaller portrait of his band "Hot Country Knights" just outside the ladies' room door with an evil chuckle
• Source: WhiskeyRiff