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09/24/2026

Jiwon is playing The New Colossus Festival 2027 🗽

March 9–14, 2027 — six days, thirteen rooms across the Lower East Side, 8th edition.

If you don’t know it: New Colossus isn’t a headliner festival. It was built in 2019 by three NYC promoters as a showcase for emerging artists only — no repeat performers, no tribute acts, roughly three-quarters of the bill flown in from abroad. Last year that meant about 200 bands from 23 countries playing 400 sets across the neighborhood in six days. It runs the week before SXSW, so it’s become the room where a lot of artists get seen by the industry for the first time.

It takes its name from the Emma Lazarus sonnet on the Statue of Liberty. That’s the whole idea — the city taking in whoever shows up ready to play.

Getting on that bill is not nothing. Congrats, Jiwon. 🤘

Set times and venues to come.

The New Colossus Festival
jiwon

09/21/2026

Congratulations to Solo Kei — “cowboy killers” has now passed 12.7 million streams on Spotify!!

12,705,916 and climbing. A song that found its own audience, one listener at a time, and hasn’t slowed down since!

To everyone who’s streamed it, saved it, sent it to a friend — thank you. There’s more coming.

🎧 “cowboy killers” — out now everywhere.

solo kei☆

09/18/2026

Somebody is getting paid on your song right now. ☀️

It’s just not you.

They call it the “black box” — royalties collected by societies that can’t be matched to a writer. Wrong metadata, missing splits, a work that was never registered in the country it’s streaming in. The money comes in. Nobody can tell whose it is.

Here’s the part that should bother you: it doesn’t sit there forever waiting for you to show up.

After the claiming window closes, that money gets distributed to local publishers based on market share. Translation — the royalties on YOUR song go to whichever publishers are already the biggest in that territory. People who had nothing to do with your record.

How big does this get? When the MLC took over U.S. mechanical licensing, streaming services handed over $424.4 MILLION in unmatched royalties. One organization. One country. One type of royalty. Now multiply that across every society in every territory you’ve ever been streamed in. 😳

Nobody’s stealing from you. That’s almost the worst part. It’s a paperwork problem, and the system just moves on when it can’t find you.

Three things that keep your money yours:

1️⃣ Register your works in every territory you get streams in — not just your home country 2️⃣ Make your metadata match everywhere it’s filed: titles, splits, ISWCs, ISRCs 3️⃣ Claim early — overseas mechanicals can lapse in as little as 6–18 months

Real question for the songwriters here: can you name which societies you’re registered with outside your own country? 🤔

Most people can’t. And that answer is worth actual money.

Full breakdown on the site — link in bio. 🎧

09/16/2026

16 electronic music festivals independent artist can apply to for 2027 ☀️

Send to an artist you think should apply

Nine are open right now, and fourteen of the sixteen are free to apply to.

🎛 CTM (Berlin) — closes September 28. Free, and they cover travel, accommodation and a festival pass. Selected work can be commissioned for a paid slot the year after. 🎛 Treefort (Boise) — pays a minimum $100 cash plus a wristband they value at $350. $10 to apply now, $20 after November 1, closes November 21. 🎛 Bass Coast (British Columbia) — opens early October and the window is seven days. Artist-owned. They ask you not to follow up, so get it right first time. 🎛 Discovery Project (Insomniac) — one free form feeds EDC, Electric Forest, Nocturnal Wonderland and Dreamstate. Their own rules print “NO PURCHASE REQUIRED.” 🎛 EMAP (15 host cities across Europe) — €4,000 to you, €4,000 for production, plus travel and lodging. Closes November 6. The only open door into TodaysArt and STRP. 🎛 Beatport The Block (US circuit) — free, and you send a mix, not an EPK. Rounds land city by city all year. 🎛 Prix Ars Electronica (Linz) — Digital Musics & Sound Art returns in 2027 after sitting out a year. Free, up to €10,000.

Notice which ones charge. The free calls are almost all European — CTM, EMAP, Ars Electronica and the showcase circuit run on public arts funding, so they can afford a submissions process and can afford to pay you. The two that charge are the two American ones. Treefort is the only one of the pair that reliably pays it back.

And the part nobody posts. The biggest names in electronic music — Movement, Dekmantel, Unsound, ADE, Nyege Nyege — take no submissions at all. Sónar’s own page says in as many words that it is not an open call to perform. That vacuum is exactly where the pay-to-play industry lives. A festival in Ibiza asked DJs for €5,000 for a slot, and defended it publicly as an investment in the artist’s career.

Always confirm on the festival’s own site before you apply.

09/11/2026

Another Friday, another lineup we’re proud to have helped bring into the world. This week’s roster is stacked — five artists, five different lanes, all distributed with love by the Good Morning Music team

1. “Darkest Hour” — The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers 
2. “Nocturnal” — Tsunami J. 
3. “In Love” — Scouts of Saint Sebastian 
4. “This is the Day” — Dustin Starks 
5. “I DJ” — TRIM. 
Proud to distribute and publish independent artists doing it their way

09/08/2026

Congratulations to Muttlee on landing four official Spotify playlists in one week!!!

“Dumb Animals” and “Coup” on All New Punk.

“Kick It Down” and “Physical World” on anti pop.

“Dumb Animals” again on All New Rock

“Put A Hit On” in The Pit

Four editorial lists, six placements, one very good week.

Proud to have him on the roster ☀️

Go stream them all. 🎧

MUTTLEE

09/04/2026

18 college radio stations taking music right now ☀️

No fees, no gatekeepers, no agent required. Every station on this list is open to unsigned artists today — you just have to send it the way they actually ask for.

📻 WFMU (Jersey City) — the most influential freeform station in the country, and there is no digital submission route at all. Vinyl, CD, CD-R, cassette. 📻 WXYC (UNC Chapel Hill) — legendary freeform that deliberately plays what nothing else in the Triangle will. 📻 WUTK (Knoxville) — reviewed every Sunday and Monday. Send a track list and contact info with it. 📻 KVRX (UT Austin) — “none of the hits, all of the time.” One published rule: no AI-generated music. 📻 WMSE (Milwaukee) — the clearest guidance anywhere: four FCC-clean tracks minimum, two to three week turnaround. 📻 WUOG (Athens, GA) — they only play artists with no Billboard Hot 100 single in 20 years. Built for the unsigned.

Here’s the part most artists miss: nine of these eighteen want physical media. WMBR at MIT refuses MP3s outright. WSOU takes CDs only. WRHU rejects links and files. KTRU publishes no submission email at all.

That sounds like a hurdle. It’s actually the opening — a mailed CD lands in a pile of five, not five hundred.

If we missed one of your favorites feel free to share them below 🌅

Always check the station’s own page before you post anything.

09/03/2026

Huge Congratulations, Jiwon. 🌊

Six cities this fall — Seoul, New York, Boston, LA, Asbury Park, Chicago. We love to see our artist doing really cool things. This is absolutely a tour you do NOT want to miss. ☀️

SEPT 5 — Seoul, SK — Cafe Curious
SEPT 29 — New York, NY — Mercury Lounge (w/ Sally Boy)
OCT 14 — Boston, MA — The Rockwell (w/ Sally Boy + Jazz Cuti)
OCT 28 — Los Angeles, CA — Gold Diggers (w/ Late Again)
NOV 13 — Asbury Park, NJ — Asbury Lanes (w/ Lilies of David)
DEC 12 — Chicago, IL — Reggie’s (w/ Solo Kei)

Congrats also to everyone sharing these bills — Sally Boy, Late Again, Lilies of David, Solo Kei, and Jazz Cuti.

09/01/2026

CHICAGO: we’ve got an opening slot and we want a local band in it. 🌇

We’re putting one Chicago-area indie/alt rock band on the bill to open up for an artist at Reggies. Real stage. Real room. Real crowd — not a Tuesday showcase where you’re playing to the other three bands on the bill.

This isn’t pay-to-play. We’re not asking you to move tickets to earn the slot. We’re looking for a band that’s good, that’s from here, and that’s ready to walk onto a real stage and take the room.

What we want to hear:
→ Indie / alt rock, originals
→ Chicago area

How to get in: DM us Good Morning Music. Send a song, a live video, a link — whatever actually sounds like you. Don’t overthink the pitch. We’d rather hear the band than read about it.

We’re reading everything that comes in.

Know a band that should be on this? Tag them. 👇

08/31/2026

17 places hip hop & R&B artists can apply to for 2027 ☀️

Share with an artist you think should apply

No agent, no label, no industry contacts — just an open form and a song. Eight of these are taking submissions today.

⏰ Amateur Night at the Apollo — free, unsigned artists only, $20,000 grand prize, submit any time ⏰ ESNS (Netherlands) — closes Sept 1. 4,000 delegates and bookers from 400 festivals in one building ⏰ SOB’s (NYC) — a dedicated hip hop submission form, free, always open ⏰ Treefort (Boise) — free to apply until Sept 11, and they pay $100 minimum ⏰ Tallinn Music Week — closes Oct 26, free, open worldwide ⏰ FOCUS Wales — closes Nov 1, free, 100 slots, catering and backline included ⏰ SXSW — closes Nov 20. Accepted acts take $400 or badges ⏰ Reeperbahn (Hamburg) — no deadline at all, the form just stays live

Then the winter run: Tiny Desk and Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition both open in January — free to enter, and Glastonbury’s winner takes £5,000 and a main stage slot. Hot 97’s Who’s Next follows in March, with a Summer Jam set for the winner.

Seventeen real open doors, and most of them cost nothing but the time it takes to fill in the form. Save this, pick two, and send something this week 🌅

⚠️ One thing worth knowing before you spend anything — swipe to slide 18. A few of the loudest “showcase” offers aimed at rappers charge you to perform. Worth knowing the names.

Dates change — always confirm on the event’s own site.

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