After baiting the hook with strange teasers and bizarre promos, Goose has announced its upcoming sixth studio album, BIG MODERN!, due to arrive via No Coincidence Records on Friday, June 12th. Pre-order or pre-save the album on your preferred platform here. The album’s announcement arrives alongside its first single, “Good2B”.
“‘Good2B,’ and BIG MODERN! as a whole, deal with the occasional state of flow amidst absurdity,” Goose guitarist and vocalist Rick Mitarotonda said of the new material in a statement. “It’s doing the electric slide down the grocery aisle between the Pop-Tarts and Frosted Flakes. Hyper-convenience, hyper-connected; lost in the digital sauce and feeling pretty good about it. All while we’re left with the nagging questions: how long can this feeling last? How long can all of it last?”
The band had been hinting at the futurist absurdity of the new album for weeks ahead of today’s official announcement. On Friday, Goose posted a video of Emmy Award nominee Jake Lacy (The White Lotus, etc.) channeling Les Grossman for a four-plus-minute scolding of Goose’s Mitarotonda, Peter Anspach (vocals, keys, guitar), Trevor Weekz (bass), and Cotter Ellis (drums). “I’ve run it up the flagpole here,” Lacy says in front of a wall of Platinum records, “and it turns out that nobody wants to have a half-mast, C-tier ham band wankin’ on their feelings for 20 minutes at a time the whole time. Who knew? Not you, obviously.”
“I know what people want: Face,” Lacy decides, borrowing a key lyrical component from the album’s title track, which has already become a fan-favorite at live shows. “This is what we’re gonna do: We’re gonna put your face… on your face. Yeah. Yeah, we’re gonna put your face on your face. It’s going to be 69 minutes of face. … It’s gonna be all-world. It’s gonna be big. And it’s gonna be… modern.”
Big Modern! Promo Video ft. Jake Lacy
The band doesn’t respond verbally, but when the camera does finally pan to the band, their wardrobe—matching yellow sweat suits printed with the letters “F,” “A,” “C,” and E” in magenta—voices their approval of the plan. The following night, Lacy and the band, still in character and costume, sat courtside at Madison Square Garden as the New York Knicks took on the Chicago Bulls and mingled with Knicks legend and MSG color commentator Walt Frazier.
[Photos via Goose – (left): Goose with Knicks legend/color commentator Walt Frazier at Madison Square Garden, 4/3/26; (right): Goose with Jake Lacy at Madison Square Garden, 4/3/26]
These latest stunts follow weeks of speculation inspired by extensive guerrilla marketing in major U.S. cities featuring the words “BIG MODERN!” The band also launched a website, BIGMODERN.com, which actively toyed with sleuthing fans via strange Morse code breadcrumbs and mysterious messages hidden in metadata.
The newly released lead single from BIG MODERN!, “Good2B”, leans into the intoxicating over-stimulus Mitarotonda described. What starts as a clean, George Michael-like conga groove soon becomes cinematic and enveloping as Rick sings about a rose-colored string of flashy subjects that seem to lose his attention as quickly as they piqued it. Its guitar leads jut in like audio snippets from an aimless social scroll. Vocal overdubs trickle through the mix, then evaporate. Even as the disparate ideas coalesce into something anthemic, the underlying chaos remains. As it commences its slow-fade finish near the seven-minute mark, “Good2B” sounds less like riding off into the sunset and more like joy-riding into oblivion. At least oblivion sounds fun. Listen to new Goose single “Good2B” below.
Goose – “Good2B”
As Mitarotonda added in an interview with Rolling Stone, “All these ideas we’ve been playing with are an absurdist reflection of the confusion of existing in today’s world. Over-stated guerrilla marketing campaign with zero context or direct connection to anything, video of a 5 minute rant from an unhinged executive, showing up at an NBA game in ridiculous sweatsuits… The album is a dispatch from interesting times, without judgement or superiority. We’re all in it the same—the exhilarating, disorienting experience of constantly being so ‘connected.’ The overstimulating high resolution world of content streaming directly into your brain, in real time, all the time. Synthetic, prepackaged human emotion on demand for your entertainment. The nightly doomscroll bliss. The relentless worship of the projection of an image of self to the world. Identity as a brand. Your FACE… on your FACE. Somehow more becomes less. Something is lost, but we’re not totally sure what it is. It’s awesome, and it’s terrifying.
View the full tracklist for BIG MODERN! below.
[Photo: Juliana Bernstein – (from left): Goose’s Peter Anspach, Rick Mitarotonda, Trevor Weekz, and Cotter Ellis, with their face on their face]
GOOSE – BIG MODERN! – TRACKLIST:
- (begin)
- Big Modern!
- Scavenger
- (you are here)
- ((savengersspell))
- Good2B
- MEDIA
- Torero
- (faena)
- POP
- SALT
- (again)
- Good Times // End Times
- ((nocturne))
- (((postplace)))
Goose will take BIG MODERN! on the road throughout 2026 with an extensive list of tour dates around the U.S., the U.K., and Europe. The band’s spring run, which recently kicked off in the streets of Athens, GA in front of tens of thousands at Jam in the Streets, resumes this weekend for shows in Asheville, NC (4/10) and includes two-night stands at Fort Lauderdale, FL’s War Memorial Auditorium (4/14, 4/15), St. Augustine, FL’s St. Augustine Amphitheatre (4/18, 4/19), and New Orleans, LA’s Saenger Theatre (4/21, 4/22), plus a return to Austin, TX’s Moody Center (April 24) and a festival appearance at Orlando, FL’s Florida Groves Music & Arts Festival (4/12).
From there, the seemingly Goose will fly south of the border for the second edition of Viva El Gonzo, a destination festival experience set for May 7th, 8th, and 9th in San José del Cabo, Mexico. The festival, produced by 100x Hospitality and anchored by three nights/six sets by Goose, will also feature sets from My Morning Jacket, Cory Wong, LP Giobbi, Jim James (Acoustic), Leisure, The Disco Biscuits, The California Honeydrops, Eggy, and more. Complete details, tickets, and travel packages are available exclusively via the event’s website here.
Following a headlining tour of Europe and the U.K. in late May and early June, Goose will return to North America to begin an ambitious summer tour featuring the group’s two-night return to Madison Square Garden (6/19, 6/20) along with two-night stands at Virginia Beach, VA’s The Dome (6/15, 6/16), Charleston, SC’s Firefly Distillery (6/23, 6/224), Raleigh, NC’s Red Hat Amphitheater (6/26, 6/27), Boston, MA’s Leader Bank Pavilion (6/30, 7/1), Saratoga Springs, NY’s SPAC (7/3, 7/4), Bend, OR’s Hayden Homes Amphitheater (8/21, 8/22), and Morrison, CO’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre (8/27, 8/28), as well as one-night-only shows at notable venues like Columbia, MD’s Merriweather Post Pavilion (6/28) and Los Angeles, CA’s Greek Theatre (8/14).
Goose will be joined by a diverse lineup of special guests at select dates, including Julian Lage (June 13th), The Disco Biscuits (July 3rd), moe. (July 4th), Greensky Bluegrass (August 19th–21st), and Buffalo Traffic Jam (August 22nd). One dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Western Sun Foundation (WSF), a volunteer-run 501(c)3 supporting grassroots nonprofits in the cities the band visits. See below for a complete list of upcoming Goose tour dates. Find ticketing details here.
GOOSE 2026 TOUR DATES [Get Tickets]
APRIL
10 – Asheville, NC – ExploreAsheville.com Arena (SOLD OUT)
11 – Birmingham, AL – Coca-Cola Amphitheater *
12 – Orlando, FL – Florida Groves Music & Arts Festival †
14 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – War Memorial Auditorium
15 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – War Memorial Auditorium
17 – Clearwater, FL – The BayCare Sound
18 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre (SOLD OUT)
19 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre
21 – New Orleans, LA – Saenger Theatre
22 – New Orleans, LA – Saenger Theatre
23 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
24 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
25 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
MAY
7-9 – San José del Cabo, Mexico – Viva El Gonzo
22 – London, UK – Electric Brixton (SOLD OUT)
23 – London, UK – Electric Brixton (SOLD OUT)
25 – Brussels, BE – La Madeleine
27 – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg (SOLD OUT)
28 – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg (SOLD OUT)
30 – Cologne, DE – Bürgerhaus Stollwerck (SOLD OUT)
JUNE
1 – Paris, FR – Élysée-Montmartre
3 – Berlin, DE – Festaal Kreuzberg
5 – Aarhus, DK – NorthSide 2026 †
13 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre ^
15 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
16 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
20 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
23 – Charleston, SC – Firefly Distillery
24 – Charleston, SC – Firefly Distillery
26 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
27 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
28 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
30 – Boston, MA – Leader Bank Pavilion (SOLD OUT)
JULY
1 – Boston, MA – Leader Bank Pavilion (SOLD OUT)
2 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
3 – Saratoga Springs, NY – SPAC ‡
4 – Saratoga Springs, NY – SPAC §
AUGUST
13 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
14 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
15 – Stanford, CA – Frost Amphitheater
16 – Reno, NV – The Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort
18 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
19 – Seattle, WA – WAMU Theater Δ
21 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater Δ
22 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater ‖
24 – Missoula, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater
27 – Denver, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre (SOLD OUT)
28 – Denver, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre (SOLD OUT)
29 – Salt Lake City, UT – Twilight Concert Series at Civic Center
SEPTEMBER
24 – Louisville, KY – Bourbon & Beyond †
† Festival Appearance
* w/ Special Guests The Stews
^ w/ Special Guest Julian Lage
‡ w/ Special Guests The Disco Biscuits
§ w/Special Guests moe.
Δ w/ Special Guests Greensky Bluegrass
‖ w/ Special Guests Buffalo Traffic Jam
