Happy Friday! It’s been a slow week of new music. Alternative New Music Friday #Happens with new music from The Black Keys “The Night Before.” I have their new single queued up for you to listen, download and get song info below on Happens.vip Alternative Downloads. 

Mumford & Sons announce an intimate club tour for March. Get the dates in Alternative Music Info.

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ICYMI: Gigi Perez was on Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night playing her Top 10 Alternative single “Sailor Song.” Check out her performance HERE.

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Let’s dig in on the latest new music that needs to be on your radar, including new albums out today and impacting songs for next week.

ALTERNATIVE NEW MUSIC DISCOVERY  

The Black Keys “The Night Before” (Warner) 

Listen & Download HERE.

Akron, OH duo The Black Keys released “The Night Before” today. It will be part of the band’s upcoming 13th album, No Rain, No Flowers, expected out later this year. 

On the new single, Dan Auerbach says, “It’s so groove-based. ‘The Night Before’ started with a chord progression that Daniel and I came up with and the rest just fell out. It was really collaborative and all came together in about 30 minutes.” 

The new music arrives a year after the band’s Ohio Players album and on the heels of a just announced spring leg of their “No Rain, No Flowers Tour” kicking off on May 23rd. The tour will be an especially meaningful return to the road for The Black Keys, who were forced to cancel their 2024 North American Tour following a dispute with their former management company. After the tour was canceled, the consensus was, “Shit happens, and you just have to move through it,” says drummer Patrick Carney. “We were already on a creative streak, and the best thing we could do, rather than sit at home, was just go back in the studio. Get back to work. So, that’s how the record started.” 

Auerbach adds, “Writing and recording has always been therapy for us, from the very beginning. We communicate best that way. It has always been the thing that’s brought us together, so I’m not surprised at all that we ended up back there so quickly after the last album.” The energy from the duo’s “Record Hangs” with fans spawned a heavy emphasis on grooves and danceability on their new material. Find the “No Rain No Flowers Tour” dates HERE. 

In two weeks (2/21), The Black Keys will be playing at Innings Festival in Tempe, Arizona. 

NEW ALBUMS OUT TODAY

Inhaler – Open Wide (Interscope)

Michigander – Michigander (Totally Normal Records/Thirty Tigers)

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar) 

Squid – Cowards (Warp)

MORE ALT ALBUMS HERE

ALTERNATIVE IMPACTING SONGS

February 11, 2025

AWOLNATION “Barbarian” (Two Twenty Five Music/The Orchard)

The Black Keys “The Night Before” (Warner)

Good Neighbours “Ripple” (Capitol)

Momma “I Want You (Fever)” (Polyvinyl)