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The past two years have seen Connecticut rockers Goose grow from a local bar band to a premiere festival headliner who are today announcing their biggest show to date. On December 18, the band will be celebrating their annual “Goosemas” event at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT, marking the eighth iteration of their annual holiday concert, a tradition that began with humble roots in the basement of a Norwalk, CT music studio.

Asleep at the Wheel is pleased to debut “Take Me Back To Tulsa,” the second single from the band’s forthcoming 50th anniversary album Half A Hundred Years exclusively via SiriusXM. Fans of the Wheel can tune into SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country (ch. 60) and Willie’s Roadhouse (ch. 59) this week (today through Aug. 27) to hear the track first before it is released to the public on Friday, Aug. 27.
 

Southern California Reggae rockers Fortunate Youth releases their newest single “Sunlight” from their upcoming album Good Times (Roll On). The new song, inspired by tour life,  comes on the eve of their Fall tour announcement!  Stream + Download “Sunlight”: https://orcd.co/sunlightsingle.

Backline has created a “Back-To-Work” resource hub for music industry professionals that are traveling, on tour, preparing for gigs, or simply want to explore a variety of stress-relieving, energy-increasing, and solution-oriented resources created specifically for them.

My Morning Jacket proudly announce the upcoming release of their ninth studio album. Self-titled, MY MORNING JACKET (ATO Records) arrives Friday, October 22 at all DSPs and in various physical formats, including CD and special edition 2LP vinyl; pre-orders begin today. MY MORNING JACKET is preceded by today’s premiere of the album’s first single, “Regularly Scheduled Programming,” available everywhere now with an official music video co-directed by Jim James and George Mays streaming on YouTube.

Between the two of them, Megan and Shane Baskerville have played just about every kind of American music you can imagine. Born in Wisconsin and based in the Southwest—with a lot of rambling in between—they’re veterans of punk scenes, bluegrass circuits, ska bands, even hip-hop acts, all of which informs their work with the School of Rock franchises they operate in Arizona.

Album-opener “Big Ol’ Good” uses a totally different kind of groove and bottleneck slide to channel that Billy F. Gibbons thing in a song about, in Jeremy Pinnell’s words, “the pains we put ourselves through trying to gain or preserve relationships with other human beings.” Today, DittyTV premiered Pinnell’s third single from his upcoming album Goodbye L.A. alongside an exclusive interview, in which Pinnell speaks about working with producer Jonathan Tyler, his favorite Kentucky artists, and more.

LA-based Viennese dream pop project Sugarplum Fairies have announced their new collection Altar Songs 1998-2021 and share the lead single, “Heart of Hell” accompanied by a  music video directed by Lael Neale. A poignant track with Nico-esque vocals and cinematic production, "Heart Hell" is a stunning collaboration between Sugarplum Fairies frontwoman Silvia Ryder and Sid Simons of Girl Skin.

Brazilian soul rocker Frederico7 has been making waves since 2019 as his debut album Exótico Americano charted #1 in the North American World Music Radio charts among greats Salif Keita and Bomba Estéreo. Rolling Stone Magazine took notice declaring it “A delicious cocktail of bossa, soul, funk & dub with a dash of psychedelia.”
 

Labor Day marks a transition back to school, work, and the daily grind of life. And it’s for this reason that NYC-based funk band Jeremy Beck & the Heavy Duty Horns will release their new single, “Mountain,” on Labor Day Monday, September 6, 2021.

“I started with the idea of total personal self-confidence,” says Beck, in reference to his inspiration for the song. “Being able to conquer anything. I hope ‘Mountain’ will inspire listeners to keep striving for anything they want to get out of life.”

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