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You could say that Chris Castino is a writer of dance music. Not the kind you hear at any club. It’s the kind you hear at a Dead show, or festivals, when the crowd moves together spinning and bouncing like an ocean of blissful and emancipated souls. Chris is the primary songwriter for his longtime popular Minnesota-based rock’n’roll jamband The Big Wu.

Summer Camp Music Festival organizers announced the first round of artists confirmed to perform at the festival, which is returning to Memorial Day Weekend in 2022. These artists join previously announced headliners Smashing Pumpkins, Little Feat (performing their classic album, Waiting For Columbus) and Liquid Stranger, who were revealed last week in anticipation for this full Round 1 announcement. Founded two decades ago by Jay Goldberg Events and Entertainment, the annual festival has hosted countless musicians spanning every genre. This year is no different with the following acts: moe.

Palm Springs Life has announced the debut of the Oasis Music Festival presented by Agua Caliente Casinos. It will take place from Wednesday, January 26, through Sunday, January 30, 2022. The Oasis Music Festival will include all genres of music and will take place at more than thirty live entertainment venues throughout Palm Springs.

Good, stand-the-test-of-time love songs tend to come from unlikely origin stories, but until The Wooks’ founder CJ Cain wrote “Flyin’ High,” from their upcoming album of the same name, not one of them has been inspired by the crash landing of a buddy’s World War I bi-plane. “He had bought this plane at a good price and would soon find out why,” says Cain. “He lost oil pressure and had to take her down in front of his family who had gathered in the yard to watch him buzz the farm.

Noel Gallagher has been added to the line-up of the second annual A Bowie Celebration, set for January 8, 2022, what would have been David Bowie’s 75th birthday. They join Def Leppard and lead singer Joe Elliott, Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon and John Taylor, Living Colour, Rob Thomas, Gary Oldman, WALK THE MOON and Jake Wesley Rogers, along with a special appearance by Ricky Gervais. The event will be available on RollingLiveStudios.com to enjoy worldwide for 24 hours.

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Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) has just announced all three headliners for 2022 Labor Day Experience including Stevie Nicks, Chris Stapleton and Leon Bridges. All three artists will be performing for the first time at JAS. Three-day early bird passes go on-sale Monday, December 20 at 10am mst. Daily schedules and opening acts for the annual event held at Snowmass Town Park will be announced at a later date.

Released in October 1971, Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” was a miraculous feat, a cinematic collision of the venerated musician and composer’s kaleidoscopic musical and visual worlds that brought together Zappa and his band, The Mothers, Ringo Starr as Zappa – as “a large dwarf” – Keith Moon as a perverted nun, Pamela Des Barres in her acting debut, noted thespian Theodore Bikel, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and an incredible assortment of characters (both on screen and off) for a “surrealistic documentary” about the bizarre life of a tou

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Fruition is happy to announce their first ever live release, “Live, Vol. 1” which is due out January 7th, 2022. Drummer and Mixing Engineer Tyler Thompson shares "This album is a recording of a show at Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID on February 10th, 2019. It was the end of a long tour, so we were definitely firing on all cylinders. Luckily, we didn't even know the show was being recorded to multitrack, so the energy couldn't be more honest and rowdy.

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Peter Jackson, the acclaimed film director of the critically lauded Beatles documentary Get Back will be the featured guest on Robert Rodriguez’s Something About The Beatles podcast.  The director had been a fan of the podcast and he himself tracked down Rodriguez for a special three-hour conversation covering Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s goldmine of footage and the information that still could not fit in the new series’ nearly 8-ho

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The legendary English rock and roll band, The Dave Clark Five (The DC5) will release a special limited-edition white vinyl for their seminal 1964 U.S. debut album ‘GLAD ALL OVER.' Previously announced as a Black Friday release, the set will now be available via BMG tomorrow - December 17th - released on vinyl for the first time since 1964.

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