19 June 2025

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Josh Ross and Akon Unveil “Drunk Right Now” Summer Anthem

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Award-winning country rocker Josh Ross and global hitmaker Akon have released the official video for their collaborative new official music video Drunk Right Now (Na Na Na)’. Produced by COMING OF AGE and directed by Mattias Russo-Larsson & Lewis Atallah, the official music video captures the essence of the track and amplifies its no-regrets energy. Since its release last month, ‘Drunk Right Now’ has racked up millions of streams and sparked viral dance clips onTikTok. The video aims to take that momentum global with a visual that’s as addictive and unexpected as the track itself. “Akon’s music was always a huge part of my life growing up,” Ross shared when the track released in May. “Having two older siblings, his songs were always playing—his sound, his hooks, everything about it just stuck with me before I even knew what the words meant. I’ve always been a fan. About a year ago, I was messing around in the studio and reimagined his song ‘Right Now’, just for fun. We started playing it before our shows and the crowd went nuts—it turned into this wild country party anthem.” “I ended up sending it to him, not really expecting anything… and he actually loved it,” he continued. “He said he wanted to jump on it, and suddenly it turned into a real collab. It’s one of those full-circle moments I never saw coming and I’m truly grateful to have a summer party anthem.” The current CCMA Entertainer of the Year has amassed nearly 1 billion global streams. At Canadian country radio, Ross’ current single, “Leave Me Too”, is Top 10-and-climbing. Ross dominated Nashville’s CMA Fest with performances at the Chevy Riverfront Stage, MCA’s SkyDeck activation, and a surprise pop up during Bailey Zimmerman’s Nissan Stadium set Sunday night, performing with Zimmerman on his Luke Combs collaboration, ‘Backup Plan’. On top of that, he takes on a full slate of appearances at fairs and festivals all summer long across North America. To read more exclusive articles and latest news, see our last issue here. Never miss a story… Follow us on: Instagram: @Maverick.mag Twitter: @Maverick_mag Facebook: Maverick Magazine Media Contact Editor, Maverick Magazine Tel: +44 (0) 1622 823 920 Email: editor@maverick-country.com

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Grammy-Winning Singer-Songwriter Cam Announces New Album

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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Cam has announced her highly-anticipated album and third full-length release, All Things Light, out Friday, July 18 via RCA Records. The album announcement is accompanied by the news that Cam will be returning to London to perform for the first time since she played at London’s Roundhouse in 2023. Cam will be playing a special one-off intimate album preview show at The Tabernacle on 10th July 2025. Her first album since The Otherside in 2020, the album and live announcement follows the release of Cam’s latest single “Alchemy” last month and comes with the second offering from the project and album opener, “Turns Out That I Am God,” a spellbinding and potent arrangement of stacked vocals and stark guitar tones. “There’s an Alan Watts talk where he speaks about how we’re all God, we’ve just forgotten,” says Cam. “I wanted this song to express that idea humbly, asking how we might live our lives if we acknowledged that we are all God together.” All Things Light arrives as a truly revelatory offering and her most visionary work to date. At a time when she desperately needed a guiding light in the dark, Cam lit her own way with a wild journey inward. While dealing with the intense isolation of becoming a mother in the early days of the pandemic, the Nashville-based artist started writing songs as a means of finding solace, and soon unlocked an entirely new level of depth in her lyrics. As her daughter Lucy grew older and began asking questions about life and death, Cam felt called to dig even deeper and create a body of work embedded with insights for Lucy to carry with her through the years. All Things Light finds Cam working with her longtime producer Tyler Johnson (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé) as well as an elite lineup of co-producers and contributors, including Michael Uzowuru (Frank Ocean, SZA), Ethan Gruska (boygenius, Phoebe Bridgers), Jeff Bhasker (Rihanna, Bruno Mars), Aldae (Miley Cyrus), Starrah (The Weeknd), Ilsey Juber (Bon Iver), Nick Lobel (Steven Sanchez), Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves), Anders Mouridsen (Meghan Trainor), and Simon Maartensson (Beyoncé). With its gorgeous convergence of country, folk, left-field pop, and more, the album emerged from the same creative wellspring that gave rise to Cam’s contributions to Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER, a 2024 effort that earned Cam an ‘Album of the Year’ Grammy for her songwriting work. With its graceful entangling of catharsis, contemplation, and occasional epiphany, All Things Light ultimately delivers the kind of soul-baring songs we return to again and again, endlessly providing clarity and sustenance and ecstatic peace of mind. To read more exclusive articles and latest news, see our last issue here. Never miss a story… Follow us on: Instagram: @Maverick.mag Twitter: @Maverick_mag Facebook: Maverick Magazine Media Contact Editor, Maverick Magazine Tel: +44 (0) 1622 823 920 Email: editor@maverick-country.com

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