For its third year, Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival returns to its beachfront location at Sandy Point State Park along the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday and Sunday, September 20-21, 2025. People from all over the region and across North America celebrate in this picturesque destination while listening to the finest progressive bluegrass, improvisational jam, and American roots music. Annapolis Baygrass will welcome 14 bands and three artists-at-large over two days on two alternating beachside stages.

Gateway Studios & Production Services (GSPS) proudly announces that Connecticut-based jam band Goose is the first artist to rehearse in Studio 75, marking a major milestone for the newly opened facility in Chesterfield, Missouri.

Third Man Books is proud to announce its publication of Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On? and the Last Days of the Motown Sound by 2x GRAMMY® Award-nominated writer Ben Edmonds. Originally published in 2001 and long out-of-print, Edmonds’s acclaimed in-depth history of Gaye’s landmark 1971 album is available now at Third Man Records digital and physical storefronts and booksellers everywhere.

Jalopy Records is proud to unveil Darkening Green, the luminous new album from New York vocal marvel Tamar Korn and Brooklyn singer-songwriter Kyle Morgan (aka Starcrossed Losers), due August 15, 2025. Praised as “sublime… transcendent” by The Wall Street Journal, Korn joins forces with Morgan—whose work exhibits “particularly strong writing” according to Under the Radar—for ten elegantly spare duets that feel timeless yet urgently of the moment.

Goose has announced a new round of upcoming headline dates, including at Burlington, VT’s Waterfront Park Concert Series (September 14), a two-night stand at Richmond, VA’s Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront (October 2-3) and Philadelphia, PA’s TD Pavilion at The Mann (October 4). $1 from each ticket will benefit Backline, a nonprofit music industry mental health organization.

Z2 Entertainment and Boulder Theater are thrilled to announce that Pepper will bring their infectious “Kona Dub-Rock” to downtown Boulder on Wednesday, September 24, 2025. The all-ages evening will feature special guests Tunnel Vision and promises a shoreline’s worth of laid-back grooves, punk-rock energy, and island-infused reggae rhythms.

Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country is set to release their highly-anticipated third LP, Horizons, on August 22nd (Retrace Music). Led by acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitar virtuoso Daniel Donato, Horizons finds the group injecting a bolt of lightning into a wealth of American music with their signature brand of cosmic country and fearless musical explorations. The album is steeped in a foundation of country, rock, bluegrass, funk and more, with no walls or boundaries in sight.

Dark Star Orchestra, in partnership with Island Gigs, is thrilled to unveil Jam in the Sand XIII, set for January 10 – 14, 2026 at the newly appointed Hideaway at Royalton Blue Waters resort, just outside Montego Bay. The beachfront gathering features four nights of music headlined by Dark Star Orchestra—three full, two-set concerts beneath the Caribbean stars plus an extended daytime “Sunshine Set” on day three.

Gibson, the iconic global instrument brand, will unveil the new Gibson Marcus King ES-345™ tomorrow, Tuesday, June 17, with a special in-store celebration at the Gibson Garage Nashville (209 10th Avenue South, Ste 209). The event will feature a live performance by GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, and guitar phenomenon Marcus King, followed by an on-stage Q&A with King and Mat Koehler, Gibson’s Vice President of Product.

As they continue to celebrate the 30th anniversary since the release of their debut album, acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated band Gov’t Mule, led by guitar legend, vocalist, songwriter and producer Warren Haynes, has announced the Back In The Saddle Tour. The late summer and fall dates – the band’s first big tour run since February 2024 – will make its way throughout the East Coast and Midwest from August 27th through October 28th.