Oklahoma artists make memorable music in 2012 Underground heroes, international icons and emerging upstarts all managed to make indelible statements last year on the Sooner State music scene.

Today’s featured event:

Hear All-American Rejects, Shiny Toy Guns and At Long Last – three bands with deep Oklahoma roots that recently released new albums – at 7 tonight at the Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S Eastern.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

Pop-rockers All-American Rejects, who have Stillwater roots, were the latest music artists to perform and sit down for a chat in the MLB Fan Cave. To see their performance and interview clips, click here.

At MLBFanCave.com, new videos, photos and blogs featuring Major League Baseball’s biggest stars along with celebrities, musical acts and other guests are posted every day, allowing fans to interact with the game in an entirely new way.

Synthpop/indie rock band Shiny Toy Guns, which has Oklahoma roots, recently released the official video for “Fading Listening, from their new album “III.”

It is the first album for the band since reuniting with original vocalist Carah Faye Charnow. The Grammy-nominated band includes bassist/synth player Jeremy Dawson and singer/guitarist Chad Petree, who grew up in Shawnee.

The All-American Rejects, who have Stillwater roots, have released a lyric video for “Heartbeat Slowing Down,” from their 2012 album “Kids in the Street.”

The Rejects also released Tuesday an EP titled “Flatline” that features a new version of “Heartbeat Slowing Down” as well as remixes of two other AAR songs by Skrillex, Jeff Bhasker and Tyler Johnson.

The All-American Rejects, who have Stillwater roots, celebrated a decade together today by releasing a preview of the video for “Heartbeat Slowing Down,” the band’s latest single from their 2012 album “Kids in the Street.”

“It’s officially been 10yrs since the birth of AAR, so here’s to being kids in the street!

October is Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month, and The All-American Rejects guitarist Nick Wheeler, who hails from Stillwater, is partnering with Petfinder.com to encourage people to consider making a shelter doggie their forever pet.

Wheeler adopted his dog, Dexter, from a shelter in 2009.

Carrie Underwood, who hails from Checotah; the All-American Rejects, who have Stillwater roots; and OneRepublic, the band fronted by Tulsa native Ryan Tedder, were among the performers for this year’s Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Labor Day weekend entertainment special, “MDA Show of Strength.”

A three-hour primetime broadcast special, “MDA Show of Strength” aired Sunday on almost 150 television stations across the country, including Oklahoma City’s CW station KOCB-TV.

Carrie Underwood, who hails from Checotah; the All-American Rejects, who have Stillwater roots; and OneRepublic, the band fronted by Tulsa native Ryan Tedder, are among the performers set for this year’s Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Labor Day weekend entertainment special, now called “MDA Show of Strength.”

The show, featuring more than a dozen of today’s top entertainers, also will include inspirational “stories of strength” about families affected by muscular dystrophy and related diseases.