Happy Wednesday! Your Happens.vip Alternative Artist Discovery Of The Week is Jonah Kagen. “God Needs The Devil” is a song about the human condition,” says Kagen. “It’s the persisting struggle to be good while having a dependence, or at least a false sense of dependence, on something evil. It means so much to me, and I hope you can find some piece of yourself in it.” The single is about to debut on the Alternative chart. Thanks to Jonathan Jacobs from Arista Records for VIP Access. 

311 “Full Bloom” is #1 Most Added this week on the Mediabase Alternative Add Board with big support out of the box from Audacy. It’s the follow up single and title track from the band’s 14th album released last Friday. Congrats to CO5 Music’s Todd Sievers, Ken Pittman & the 311 team!

Ratings Love! Nielsen October ‘24 PPM Ratings are being released this week and here’s the latest stations to post 6+ increases: KITS (Live 105)/San Francisco 3.1-3.4, KVIL (ALT 103.7)/Dallas 2.5-2.6, KTBZ (94.5 The Buzz)/Houston 4.9-5.7 (#3 overall), WNNX (99X)/Atlanta 2.8-3.1, WWDC (DC101)/Washington 3.7-3.8, and KNDD (107-7 The End)/Seattle 2.6-3.2.

WLUM (FM 102/1)/Milwaukee has announced a 4th Big Snow Show 18. Find the lineup for all 4 shows in Alternative News.

Did you see the lineup was announced yesterday for When We Were Young Festival 2025? Panic! At The Disco is returning to celebrate the 20th anniversary of A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out by performing the album in its entirety almost a year from now. Also, just announced for February 2025 is Innings Festival and Extra Innings Festival. Next month is the Soulshine Benefit Concert to help with the recovery from the hurricanes. All the lineups are posted on Alternative Music Info.

The Struts “Can’t Stop Talking” has everyone talking about how different this single sounds. The video was released last week and is featured below on the #Happens ALT Video Spotlight Of The Week! The now LA-based band’s new single officially impacts this coming week. 

Nerf from KTCL/Denver shares a photo with The Head And The Heart, who stopped by the station for a Garage Session. Take a look at the smiles on the Alternative Photos page.

Some exciting new singles to check out from Tunde Adebimpe (lead singer of TV On The Radio) and Girl Tones (discovered by Matt Schultz of Cage The Elephant) are now available for you to Listen & Download on the #HAPPENS Alternative Downloads page.  

What do you have for me to share in your #HAPPENS Alternative VIP Newsletter on Friday? Send me an email at shawn@happens.vip.