Happy Wednesday! Hope you had a nice Labor Day Weekend! Your Happens.vip Alternative Artist Discovery Of The Week is Teenage Dads. “Boyfriend is a triumphant song that almost acts as the result of Live Until You Die: you’ve come to terms with what you can’t control and you’re finally opening your lungs and singing,” says Connor from Teenage Dads. The Melbourne, Australia 4-piece released their new album, Majordomo, two weeks ago. They have U.S. tour dates next month. Big thanks to Gary McDonald from Your Army for VIP Access. 

blink-182 “ALL IN MY HEAD” logs #1 Most Added this week on Mediabase Alternative Add Board. Congrats to Columbia’s Lisa Sonkin & team! 

Marci Wiser is the new morning host at KITS (Live 105)/San Francisco. “Marci’s Playground” can be heard 6am-10am on Live 105. Find more details in Alternative News. 

Ratings Love! Nielsen August ‘24 PPM Ratings are being released this week and here’s the latest 6+ highlights. KYSR (ALT 98.7)/Los Angeles is up again 2.7-2.9, WKQX (Q101)/Chicago posts up 1.9-2.5, and KTBZ (94.5 The Buzz)/Houston soars 4.5-5.4.

Elliott Wood from KTBZ shares a really positive station ratings recap from August.

Buzz Performance in Key demos for August:

• P18-34 – #1 8.8 Shares — up 1.3 MtM / up 1.5 YtY
• P18-49 – #1 7.9 Shares — up 1.1 MtM / up 1.4 YtY
• P25-54 – #2 6.2 Shares — up 0.7  MtM / up 0.6 YtY

Buzz has maintained #1 rank with P18-34 for 5 months and #1 with P18-49 for 6 months. Summer has been historically difficult to maintain the top position for Buzz until this year. This is the first August #1 P18-34 since 2021, and the highest August share since before 2019. Additionally, this is the first August #1 P18-49 since August 2020.

Robbie Lloyd from Interscope shares some big news for Good Neighbours. The debut single “Home” from the British duo is featured on Kohl’s Fall Brand Campaign that launched this past Sunday (9/1). “Home” is Top 10 on the Alternative chart and the Kohl’s campaign runs until the end of October. Check it out HERE.

Beach Weather has announced the release date for their second album with current single “High In Low Places” pushing Top 20 on the Alternative chart.

The Offspring and Pennywise are set to headline Punk In The Park San Diego. Get the 411 in Alternative Music Info. 

The Linda Lindas “All In My Head” is now playing on the #Happens ALT Video Spotlight Of The Week! 

AWOLNATION played a private KNRK 94/7 Portland Session leading into the holiday weekend and Blue October played the first-ever KKDO ALT 94.7 Sacramento Hard Rock Live Soundstage at the Audacy Studios last week. Check out the smiles on Alternative Photos.

Did you see #HAPPENS Las Vegas 2025 Early-Bird Registration is now available for February 26-28? Get your discount registration HERE.