Happy Wednesday! Your Happens.vip Alternative Artist Discovery Of The Week is honestav. “An orgasm for your ears maybe,” says Avrey, who records under the name honestav. “It’s all of everything I’ve ever been influenced by packed into one song. Hip hop – punk – folk I think you can hear a lot of different influences in my music.” Big thanks to Billy Burrs at The Syndicate for VIP Access. KROQ is among the early leaders on honestav & MOD SUN “I’d Rather Overdose.” Impact is next week!

Imagine Dragons “Wake Up” posts up #1 Most Added this week on the Mediabase Alternative Add Board. Congrats to Robbie Lloyd & the Interscope team! 

Ratings Love! Nielsen June ‘24 Monthly Books and Spring ‘24 Books are being released this week. Here are the latest Alternative 12+ highlights: WGBJ (ALT 102.3)/Ft. Wayne leaps 1.4-2.0, KQBL-HD3 (96.5 The Alternative)/Boise gains 1.0-1.3, and WARQ-HD2 (ALT 99.7)/Columbia, SC rises 0.9-1.1.

Lollapalooza begins tomorrow in Chicago at Grant Park and they will power the main stage on a hybrid battery system. I have the daily schedule for 8/1-8/4 HERE. Get more info below in Alternative Music Info. 

Carly Evans from KRXP (X1039)/Colorado Springs checks in with a part-time on-air opening. Find the details on this job opening posted in Alternative News.

Badflower “Detroit” is featured below on the #Happens ALT Video Spotlight Of The Week! The new single is really going to surprise you. Impact is next week!

Some photos from last weekend hit my inbox from Kevin Zinger with Nerf at the sold out Sublime and Stick Figure show in Denver and Jack & Sara Springer reconnected with 311. Check out the fun times on Alternative Photos.

Thanks for all your support and helping me make this all happen for the Alternative community. If you have anything to share, please email me at shawn@happens.vip.