Happy Friday! Alternative New Music Friday #Happens with Linkin Park. The band’s new 10-song collection, From Zero, is out today. It marks the group’s first full-length since 2017, and officially launches the next era of Linkin Park with co-lead singer Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain. There is also a From Zero (Expanded Edition) digital deluxe album available until November 21st. It features the full album plus live versions of three From Zero songs recorded in Los Angeles, London and Paris, along with 46 pages of imagery, handwritten lyrics.

To celebrate the release, Linkin Park will livestream Act 1 from tonight’s show at Allianz Park in São Paulo, Brazil at 3:30pm (PT)/6:30pm (ET). The first 6 songs are free HERE. 

Linkin Park has also announced 50+ additional From Zero World Tour dates with two US legs in spring and summer 2025 with grandson, Jean Dawson, JPEGMAFIA, and PVRIS joining on select dates. The first leg kicks off April 26th in Austin. Find the on sale details and tour dates HERE. 

I have the new single from The Smashing Pumpkins queued up for you to listen & download below on Happens.vip Alternative Downloads.

Brian Garris from KJJZ-HD2 (ALT 101.5)/Palm Springs has put together a free ALT-imate Acoustic Christmas show for December 15. Get the scoop in Alternative News.

Interpol has a new live LP coming December 6th. 

Dexter And The Moonrocks share a cover of “Messed Up Kid” with current single “Sad In Carolina” now building #3 on the Alternative chart. 

Jack White announces No Name Tour dates for April and May 2025 and drops new B-Side today. 

Josh Venable from KMYZ/Tulsa shares a photo with Jack White at pop-up show and says he is a part-time Tulsa resident. Check out the smiles on Alternative Photos.

ALTERNATIVE NEW MUSIC DISCOVERY  

The Smashing Pumpkins “Who Goes There” (Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers)

Listen & Download HERE.

Chicago icons The Smashing Pumpkins released “Who Goes There” on November 13th. It’s the second single from the band’s 13th album, Aghori Mhori Mei, released in August. 

Frontman Billy Cordan said, “In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go home again’. Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.” 

The Smashing Pumpkins are headlining Q101’s Twisted XMAS on December 12th and KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas on December 14th.

NEW ALBUMS OUT TODAY

BoyWithUke – Burnout (AWAL)

half-alive – Persona (Virgin)

Letdown. – Be Ok (Big Loud Rock)

Linkin Park – From Zero (Warner)

Nico Vega – Make It Out Alive EP (NCVG Records)

Vlad Holiday – My Favorite Drug (ONErpm)

MORE ALT ALBUMS HERE

GOING FOR ADDS

Impacting Next Week (11/19):

Coldplay “ALL MY LOVE” (Atlantic)